Residential aged care facilities, retirement villages and home care providers are being asked to do more — with tighter margins, more complex reporting obligations, and rising scrutiny from regulators, boards and residents alike. Between Aged Care Act compliance, Annual Prudential Compliance Statements (APCS), fringe benefits and salary packaging rules, and the day-to-day pressure of running a care service, financial management can quickly become a distraction from what matters most: the people in your care.
You didn’t get into aged care to wrestle with audit requirements or chase down reporting deadlines. Your focus is on your residents, your staff and your community — and it should be. We know that every aged care organisation is different. Beyond residential care and retirement villages, “aged care” today includes home care packages, community group programs, and a wide range of support services. Whatever form your service takes, we want to understand how you support the elderly in your community, so our advice actually fits your organisation.
Saward Dawson provides accounting, audit and business advisory services to residential aged care facilities and retirement villages across Australia. Our aged care specialists bring sector-specific knowledge to every engagement, so you get advice that’s relevant, practical and compliant.
Remuneration & Salary Packaging
Our remuneration services team advises aged care providers on effectively managing employee fringe benefits and salary packaging arrangements — helping you remain compliant while supporting your staff.
Business Consulting
Our consultants offer outsourced CFO services, on a temporary or ongoing basis, along with advice on IT systems and reporting infrastructure. We help you build management reporting and benchmarking tools that drive efficiency and give you clearer, better-quality information — so your organisation can focus on its people, not its paperwork.
Audit Services
Our experienced audit team delivers full electronic audits using advanced data interrogation techniques, giving your board confidence in the accuracy of your annual financial report and the strength of your internal controls.
With the right specialist support, aged care providers move from reactive compliance to proactive, informed decision-making. Boards gain confidence in their financial reporting. Management teams get the reporting tools they need to plan ahead. And your organisation is free to focus on delivering quality care, not managing financial risk.
Partnering with an accounting firm that understands aged care means fewer surprises, stronger governance, and more time to focus on your residents and your community. That’s the outcome we work toward with every aged care client.
Kane Noorbergen leads our Aged Care team and works closely with residential care, retirement village and home care providers across Australia. If you have questions about audit, remuneration, or business advisory support for your organisation, Kane is ready to help.
Saward Dawson acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.
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contact@sawarddawson.com.au | +61 3 9894 2500
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