Accounting Professionals Blog
Assistance for your business to cope with the Coronavirus effects
As a business owner during the Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), you need to face the possibility of team members being absent from your workplace, product supply issues and demand for your services and products reducing over the short term. There are three urgent...
Accounting more than a numbers game for Lisa
Tax and Accounting Manager, Lisa Bassingthwaighte, recently celebrated 20 years’ service with local accounting firm, Accounting Professionals. While the words tax and accounting may conjure up images of tedious paperwork for many of us, Lisa explains her...
Close call for Eden
Trainee accountant Eden Close certainly hasn’t followed the traditional path to a career in accounting and finance. The 24-year-old from Bega on the NSW far South Coast veered off the well-travelled path from school to university before settling in at...
Seek trusted financial advice
In response to the recommendations of the Banking and Financial services Royal Commission and the ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce Report, the government has proposed new enforcement and supervision powers for ASIC to restore consumer confidence in the financial...
Support for bushfire victims
As bushfires continue to rage across the country, bushfire support for devastated communities are coming from all sides and the ATO is no exception. It has announced automatic deferrals for lodgement and payments for taxpayers in impacted postcodes in the states of...
4 hacks to help you raise Start-up capital
By Garry PinchBusiness Services Director, Accounting Professionals As a mentor to Start-ups and Scale-ups I regularly assist with strategies and campaigns to raise start up capital. Unfortunately, in my experience, 90% of businesses don’t allow enough time to raise...
Getting the benefit of your business tax losses
Made a tax loss? Are you getting the benefit of your business tax losses? When you’re starting a new business venture, it may take some time before the business becomes profitable. And there may be other situations where an established business operates at a loss in a...
Health insurance and your tax: uncovered
Health insurance and your tax: uncovered. If you don’t hold private hospital cover – or are thinking about dropping it – make sure you understand the financial consequences. You could be hit with an extra tax surcharge of up to 1.5% or cost yourself extra premiums in...
Selling shares: how does tax apply?
Selling shares: how does tax apply? Did you know that when you sell your shares, the size of your capital gains tax (CGT) bill is affected by how long you’ve held the shares, and how you offset your capital gains and losses? Here, we break down the rules for taxpayers...
Benefits of Cloud Accounting
Cloud accounting allows business owners to view and manage their accounting file anytime, anywhere, requiring only an internet connection. Cloud accounting has also reduced upfront business costs eliminating the need for software...
Improve your cash to achieve your goals
People go into business to get freedom and independence, but most business owners are trained to do the work, not trained to own or manage a business. They don’t want the biggest or most successful business in the world, but the result is often a business that is:...
Founders are the key to successful start-ups
At Accounting Professionals, we see lots of successful start-up ideas but on average, for every 10 new ideas, only one makes a good business. "Most start-ups believe their secret sauce is their new business idea," says Garry Pinch, AP's Director of Business Advisory....
Accounting software for best performing businesses
As accountants, we are frequently asked, "What accounting software are the best performing businesses using and why?" With a multitude of different accounting packages on the market, the task of choosing the accounting package for your business or the decision of...
Strategies of the best performing businesses
What are the tried and true strategies of the best performing businesses? “How can I make my business better?” This a question we at Accounting Professionals commonly get asked by clients and it will come as no surprise that for even the best performing businesses,...
How will Single Touch Payroll affect your business?
By Stephanie Pokrivka, Accounting Professionals Single Touch Payroll (STP) has been introduced by the ATO to streamline employer reporting obligations but there may be deeper ramifications for your business if you are not prepared. From 1 July 2019, each time you pay...
Is your business eligible for a $2,000 Small Business Grant?
Have you created a new full-time position in your business? You may eligible for the Small Business Grant of $2,000. The NSW government has provided a grant to encourage small businesses to employ new full-time, part-time and casual workers. A new job is created when...
2019/20 FEDERAL BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS
The Treasurer, The Hon. Josh Frydenberg MP, handed down the Government’s 2019/20 Federal Budget at 7.30pm (AEDT) on 2 April 2019. Wayne Hooton, Small Business Tax Specialist at Accounting Professionals, provides a summary of the key personal tax, business tax and...
Families should talk about money
Families can and should talk about money says AP Wealth's Tony Bates.There are so many fantastic resources to help families think about today, tomorrow and beyond. Tony commenced his career at Ord Minnett before the 1987 share market crash and has been navigating its...