Chartered Accountants + Business Advisors in Kapiti

You built your business to do what you love, not to spend your time worrying about cashflow, tax compliance, or business planning.

At +MORE Kapiti, we help business owners across the Kapiti Coast make confident decisions with practical accounting, tax, and business advisory services. Whether you're a tradie, property investor, hospitality business, healthcare professional, architect, lawyer, or growing SME, we'll help you understand your numbers and achieve your goals.

+MORE Taranaki Office

Our specialities

Accounting & Tax Services

We provide accounting and tax services for businesses throughout the Kapiti Coast, helping you stay compliant while gaining clearer visibility over your financial performance. From annual accounts and tax returns through to management reporting and tax planning, we help you understand the numbers behind your business so you can make better decisions with confidence.

Business Advice & Coaching

Running a business can be challenging. Whether you're planning for growth, improving profitability, managing cashflow, buying a business, or preparing an exit strategy, our advisers work alongside you to provide practical guidance backed by real-world experience.

Business Owners

Every business owner wants clarity, confidence, and a clear path forward. Our role is to help you understand your financial position, identify opportunities, and make informed decisions that support sustainable growth.

Whether you're managing a trade business, hospitality venue, medical practice, architecture firm, law firm, property portfolio, or plumbing business, we help turn financial information into practical business strategy.

Questions we commonly help business owners answer:

Why is my business profitable but short on cash?
How can I reduce tax legally and effectively?
Is it the right time to grow my business?
How do I improve business cashflow?
What does success look like for my business?
These are the real challenges that keep business owners up at night. The good news? We tackle them every day — and we know how to help.

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Frequently asked questions

We provide a full range of accounting and business advisory services, including annual financial statements, tax returns, management reporting, cashflow forecasting, tax planning, business planning, CFO advisory, succession planning, and support with business growth.

We work with businesses across many industries, with particular experience in property investment and development, hospitality, trades, construction, plumbing, healthcare, architecture, legal services, and professional services.

Yes. We go beyond compliance and reporting. Our team works alongside business owners to improve profitability, manage cashflow, plan for growth, and make better business decisions.

Can you help me understand my business performance?

Yes. We work with property investors and developers to help manage tax obligations, structure investments appropriately, and support long-term wealth creation strategies.

We work with a range of accounting systems and can help businesses get the most out of their software. Our team has extensive experience with Xero and can provide support, training, and process improvements.

It depends on your business and goals. Some clients meet with us annually for compliance work, while others choose quarterly or monthly advisory meetings to stay on track and make proactive decisions.

An accountant typically focuses on compliance and reporting. A business adviser goes further by helping you understand your numbers, improve business performance, manage cashflow, and plan for the future. At +MORE Kapiti, we do both.

Here to help

At +MORE Kapiti, we believe accounting should do more than satisfy compliance requirements. We help business owners understand their financial performance, improve cashflow, plan for growth, and make better decisions.

Our team supports businesses across the Kapiti Coast and wider Wellington region, providing straightforward advice that delivers practical outcomes.

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Tell us where your business is today. We'll help you plan where it goes next.

Emily Harding

Operations

Emily ensures the efficient functioning of the +MORE Group, providing vital support across planning, operations, project management, and risk & compliance.

What excites Emily most about her role is the opportunity to make a difference, helping the +MORE Group operate at its best.

Outside work, Emily enjoys games nights with friends and, most importantly, spending time with her beautiful dog Kimbo in the great outdoors.

Matthew Trowill

FINANCE

Matt oversees the internal finance function across the +MORE Group. He ensures the executive team is equipped with accurate financial data, monthly management reports, cash flow forecasts, and all things numbers.

Matt thrives on understanding the numbers and how they drive smart business decisions.

Beyond finance, Matt is passionate about travelling the world and enjoys playing hockey on weekends.

Kirsten Harris

Marketing

Kirsten leads the marketing function across the +MORE Group, shaping the brand and driving growth. She works closely with teams across the business to deliver marketing strategies that support +MORE’s vision, while overseeing brand, content, communications, and campaigns.

Kirsten is passionate about turning insight into action and building strong, consistent brands. She enjoys collaborating with teams to create meaningful marketing that connects with clients and supports business growth.

Outside of work, Kirsten keeps busy with family life, spending weekends watching her kids’ sports, fitting in runs when she can, and making the most of any opportunity to do something new.

Anna Crow

People & Culture

Anna oversees the human resources function across the +MORE Group. She is responsible for recruiting, developing, and retaining talent and ensuring that our teams embody our company values and purpose daily.

Anna enjoys getting to know every team member and working with them and their manager to help them achieve their career goals. Seeing employees succeed is what motivates her!

Outside work, Anna loves spending time with her family. She has two teenage boys who love to get out and about – from multi-day bike rides in different parts of the country to catching the latest movie to board games on rainy days.

David Bell

Chief operating office
david.bell@plusmore.co.nz
021 491 240

David is motivated by the +MORE purpose of smarter, better business. David is a strategic transformation and commercial Executive with over 25 years of experience in the finance and technology sectors. His role is to leverage his multinational expertise to ensure the +MORE network delivers daily for our clients and team. To him, nothing is better than seeing clients succeed in their market due to insight and collaboration with our people.

Starting life in the London dealing rooms as a derivatives trader, David’s career has seen him work with major banks worldwide.

Following a six-month program at Stanford Business School, David diversified into strategic leadership roles, building new or amplifying existing divisions of the bank. One of the most challenging but exhilarating periods was launching a start-up data platform as CEO, gaining first-hand insight into business ownership.

Most recently, David was privileged to lead the Xero global sales team, working with teams in many countries focusing on a high-growth commercial mindset.

David has a teenage family that keeps him busy outdoors, with his son cycling in the mountains or roads of New Zealand or supporting his daughter in the dance studio.

John Schol

Director

John has over 25 years of executive, non-executive and chair experience across large, complex organisations in a variety of sectors, including professional services, property, manufacturing, infrastructure, local government, SaaS and not-for-profit.

He has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, holds a Certificate of Public Practice with Chartered Accountants Australia, New Zealand, and is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors.  

John specialises in assisting businesses in clearly articulating their vision, strategy, and corresponding goals. His commercial capability to monitor performance against strategic, business, and financial plans helps ensure executive leadership teams manage their businesses appropriately.  

He consults with businesses on strategic, cultural, and organisational change that creates smarter, better businesses. He often works with leaders who are surrounded by uncertainty, disruption, pending technology change, investment opportunities, restructuring, and succession issues.   

John also works closely with numerous local community groups and has given time to facilitate strategic plans with The Graeme Dingle Foundation (Southern), Rugby Southland, Football South, Southland Sharks, Youth Line South, Southland Engineering Cluster, The Pantry and The Grace Street Project.

Dan Henderson

CEO & Managing Director

Dan Henderson is an experienced advisory and accountancy leader with more than 20 years’ experience supporting business owners to drive growth, build resilience, and create long‑term value.

As CEO and Managing Director of the +MORE Group, Dan leads with a deep commercial and technical understanding of the New Zealand SME sector. His leadership is underpinned by a strong commitment to +MORE’s vision of fuelling ambitious business owners through smarter, better business.

Dan is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) and holds a Certificate of Public Practice. He is a long‑standing member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, reflecting his strong technical foundation and commitment to professional excellence.

His expertise spans business strategy, leadership, governance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and valuation work, and international company compliance and regulatory analysis. Throughout his career, Dan has played a pivotal role in guiding organisations through complex financial and commercial landscapes. His experience covers businesses of all sizes, from start‑ups through to multi‑national corporations, giving him a well‑rounded perspective across a wide range of industries.

Dan completed his studies in Commerce and Sciences at the University of Otago, before spending ten years with one of the Big Four accounting firms. In 2013, he transitioned into business ownership and went on to establish what is now known as the +MORE Group.

In addition to his executive role, Dan is actively involved in governance and leadership across the profession and wider community. He is the Chair of MGI Australasia, providing strategic leadership within the global MGI Worldwide network, and serves as a Board Member of Variety – the Children’s Charity, supporting improved outcomes for vulnerable Kiwi children.