The History of Business Fitness NZ

Business Fitness NZ was founded in 2002 by Chartered Accountant Viv Brownrigg.

Viv had set up in sole practice in 1994 and as a result of experiencing sudden and significant growth, realised that systemisation was one of the cornerstones of successful practice development.

The obvious limitations of a paper based procedures manual were quickly realised and what is now the Business Fitness content suite sits within an electronic document management system, an intuitively searchable base of more than 2000 process driven templates, many essential to the management and development of the accounting business.

With more than 400 NZ accounting firms as clients, BFNZ provides a managed content programme, along with the implementation and ongoing training required to get the very most from your content investment.

Simply put, Business Fitness is the only NZ provider of its kind, providing monthly content updates that keep its product up to date with tax legislation, allowing firms to get on with the business of looking after clients.

Our star content includes integrated electronic work papers, along with a goldmine of, compilation and other compliance procedures, checklists, standard letters and the raft of essential tools required to navigate everything from preparing a set of annual accounts, through to the detail of company, trust, taxation and ACC management.
Passionate about the Chartered Accountant’s goal to take pride of place as the small to medium sized business’s most trusted advisor, we also provide a suite of business advisory processes and tools, for those professionals most committed to helping their clients in the five fundamental areas of their business development: growth, profit, cash flow, risk management and succession.