Where Spreadsheets Actually Make Sense
Started in a Cairns garage with two accountants who got tired of watching businesses drown in their own numbers
How This Whole Thing Began
Back in 2018, Callum and Tiberius were both working at different accounting firms around Cairns. And they kept seeing the same frustrating pattern.
Business owners would come in with spreadsheets that looked like someone threw numbers at a wall. Tax time became this nightmare every year because nobody could actually find anything. Revenue mixed with expenses. Personal costs hiding between business transactions. Formulas that broke if you looked at them wrong.
The thing is, most of these people weren't careless. They just never learned how to set up a proper financial tracking system. Schools don't teach this stuff, and most accounting software feels like you need a degree just to log in.
So they started running weekend workshops. Just showing local business owners how to build spreadsheets that actually worked. How to separate income streams. How to track expenses in a way that made tax season less painful. Basic stuff, really, but it made a huge difference for people.
What We Actually Do Differently
Real Business Context
We don't teach spreadsheet functions in isolation. Every formula, every layout decision connects to actual financial management challenges Australian businesses face. GST tracking, quarterly BAS preparation, cash flow monitoring that helps you sleep at night.
Built For Your Brain
You don't need to be a numbers person. We break everything down into steps that make sense, build on what you already know, and give you templates you can actually use. No jargon marathons or showing off with complex functions you'll never need.
Ongoing Support Access
Learning doesn't stop when the course ends. You get access to our question portal, template updates, and monthly group sessions where we tackle real problems people are facing. Because your business keeps evolving, and your financial tracking should too.
The People Behind This
Callum Riordan
Spent twelve years doing tax returns before he realized he'd rather prevent the chaos than clean it up afterward. Callum designed our core curriculum and runs most of the live training sessions.
He's got this way of explaining complicated financial concepts that doesn't make you feel stupid. Probably because he remembers what it felt like to stare at a balance sheet for the first time and have no clue what he was looking at.
When he's not teaching, he's probably hiking somewhere around the Tablelands or trying to convince his spreadsheet-phobic partner that formulas can actually be fun.
Tiberius Viljoen
Tiberius handles the technical side of things. He builds the templates, tests every formula until it breaks, then fixes it so you don't have to deal with error messages at 11pm before a deadline.
He originally studied computer science before switching to accounting, which explains why he actually enjoys creating automated reconciliation systems. The rest of us just appreciate that someone finds this stuff satisfying.
Ask him about conditional formatting and you might be there for a while. But that obsessive attention to detail means our materials actually work across different versions of Excel and Google Sheets without weird compatibility issues.
How We Got Here
Started With Weekend Workshops
Eight people showed up to our first session in a borrowed community hall. We thought we'd teach basic Excel formulas. Ended up spending three hours just helping people understand why their current systems weren't working.
Moved Everything Online
The pandemic forced our hand, but it turned out to be useful. People from regional areas could finally access training without driving four hours. We started recording sessions and building a proper course structure instead of random workshops.
Created The Template Library
Students kept asking for examples they could adapt for their own businesses. So we built a collection of tested templates covering different industries and business structures. Saved everyone a lot of trial and error.
Expanded Into Business Training
Companies started asking if we could train their accounting teams. Now we run customized programs for businesses that want their staff to actually understand the financial systems they're using every day.
What Drives Us Forward
Financial management shouldn't require a degree or expensive software subscriptions. When business owners understand their numbers, they make better decisions. When they can track cash flow properly, they stress less and plan better.
We're not trying to turn everyone into accountants. We just want to give people the tools and knowledge to manage their finances confidently, using systems that work with their business instead of against it.
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