Jade insights
Offshore accounting guides for Australian businesses.
Practical, source-aware guides for Australian owners, finance leaders and accounting firms evaluating dedicated capability in the Philippines.
Choose the decision

Featured guide
Build the role and relationship together.
Role design, selection, secure access, onboarding and person-specific collaboration for a long-term Filipino–Australian finance team.
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All guides
Choose the decision in front of you.
Dedicated employee vs freelancer vs managed team
Compare continuity, control, employment and management before comparing rates.
OnboardingA practical first-month plan
Access, controls, documentation, review and feedback for the first 30 days.
SecurityQuestions for an offshore accounting provider
A due-diligence checklist for devices, access, privacy, incidents and offboarding.
Working hoursPhilippines hours across AEST, AEDT and AWST
Plan overlap and daylight-saving changes without ambiguous “Australian hours”.
Accounting firmsOffshore capacity planning guide
Size preparation capacity around workflow, supervision and review.
Team designHow to build a dedicated Filipino accounting team
Design the role, relationship and first month for long-term capability.
Editorial standard
Useful boundaries belong in the answer.
Our articles avoid invented productivity statistics and unqualified regulatory claims. Official sources are linked where privacy, professional regulation, cyber security or time-zone rules matter.
Each launch article
- Shows an authoring organisation and review date
- Separates Jade operating facts from general guidance
- Links primary sources for material regulatory statements
- Explains when professional advice may be needed
Where to start
Read by the decision you are making.
If you are still deciding whether an offshore role is the right answer at all, start with the comparison of dedicated employees, freelancers and managed teams, which is the piece that most often changes someone's mind in either direction.
If the decision is made and the question is how to do it well, the guide to building a dedicated Filipino accounting team covers role design and selection, and the thirty-day onboarding plan covers the first month in detail. Read them in that order; most of the problems in the second are caused by shortcuts in the first.
If you are being asked to justify the arrangement to someone else, such as a board, a risk committee or a firm's quality-control process, the security and privacy checklist and the capacity guide for accounting firms are written for that conversation. Both cite official Australian sources rather than asking you to take our word for it.
These are working guides rather than thought leadership. They are reviewed and dated, and where regulation or timing matters we link to the primary source so you can check it yourself.
Next step
Move from reading to role design.
Bring the questions that remain. We will help map them to a specific operating model.