Author
Dilip Kherajani
CPA, Australia and Financial Strategist
Qualifications: CPA Australia, Chartered Accountant
Dilip is a Chartered Accountant, international accountant, financial consultant and strategist, and has been based in Australia for fifteen years.
He co-leads Business Avengers with Rohit Maloo. He works with CFOs and business owners on how their finance function is built and what it actually costs, and writes here on the pulse of the Australian market and economy, and what it means for finance leaders.
Bookkeeping
Complete Guide to Hiring Outsourced Bookkeeping Services Australia
There's a specific moment every growing Australian business hits when the spreadsheet-and-a-part-time-bookkeeper setup that worked fine at $5M in revenue starts creaking at $10M. Invoices get missed. Reconciliations slip. You find out about a cash flow problem three weeks after it started, not three weeks before. That's usually when outsourced bookkeeping services australia starts showing up in your search history. This guide covers what's actually included, what it costs, and, more importantly, how it's different from just hiring a local bookkeeper on a retainer.
Financial Reporting
A CFO’s Guide to Preparing Financial Statements for Your Board
Financial statements are one of those things that look simple from the outside (a profit and loss, a balance sheet, a cash flow statement) and get genuinely complicated the moment your business has more than one revenue stream, a lease, some inventory, or a part-owned asset. Get them wrong and the damage compounds. Bad statements produce bad forecasts, bad forecasts produce bad decisions, and by the time anyone notices, it's a much bigger problem than a misclassified line item. This guide is for the CFO or finance lead who has to hand statements to a board, lender, or investor and needs them to hold up to scrutiny, not just balance.
CFO & Leadership
What CFOs Should Prepare For Before 2030
The opening session at the Perth CFO Symposium 2026 framed the entire day around a single idea: the CFO role has changed more in the last five years than in the previous twenty, and the pace isn't slowing down. Panellists spent the morning mapping out what that means across the short, medium, and long term, all the way out to 2030.
CFO & Leadership
What 150 CFOs Told Me About The Future Of Finance
I spent Thursday in a room with roughly 150 CFOs and finance leaders, and by mid-afternoon I'd stopped counting how many times I heard some version of the same sentence: "We know we need to change how we do this. We just don't know where to start."
CFO & Leadership
10 Biggest Takeaways from the Perth CFO Symposium 2026
Key learnings from speakers, CFO trends, leadership themes and outsourcing perspectives.
CFO & Leadership
Outsourcing Your Finance Function: A CFO Game Changer
For decades, the word "outsourcing" in the corporate world was treated purely as a cost-cutting exercise—often associated with a drop in quality, communication barriers, and a loss of control. But today, forward-thinking financial leaders are reframing this concept. Implementing a strategic approach to outsourcing finance function Australia is no longer just about slashing overheads; it is a sophisticated, strategic growth lever that empowers the modern Chief Financial Officer to scale operations rapidly and drive business value.