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Accounting & Tax

10 min | Nathan Watt

An Employer’s Guide To Stapled Superannuation

You know how it goes, you hire a new employee, send them the super choice form and they leave it blank or don't return it, so you're required to set up and contribute to your "default super fund".

Business Consulting

15 min | Nathan Watt

Goal setting: A guide for success

They're useless because they only serve a purpose if the desire to achieve that future state is stronger than our desire to stay in our current state – aka if you can be bothered to do something about it.

Business Consulting

5 min | Nathan Watt

How Do You Make More Sales?

No, we’re not launching a marketing service, so what do we know about making more sales? Apart from growing Watson & Watt from nothing to something in the last 5 years I know that more sales is actually business strategy, not marketing & sales.

Business Consulting

10 min | Nathan Watt

Offset vs Redraw: What’s The Difference

If you’ve got a home loan or even just looked into one, you’ll have heard these terms, and on the surface they seem to do the same thing. A place to deposit extra cash to reduce the interest you pay. So is it just semantics or are there differences you really should know. Well yes, yes there are.

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Accounting & Tax

What Are Pay As You Go Instalments (PAYGI)?

15 min | Nathan Watt

You’ve just paid your tax bill and now you’ve got a letter from the tax office saying you need to pay more but now it’s quarterly?

Accounting & Tax

Understanding Voluntary Administration

10 min | Nathan Watt

A Voluntary Administration is designed to help avoid court involvement during times of financial hardship when companies are facing creditors.

Accounting & Tax

The Truth About Tax Planning

10 min | Nathan Watt

There is so much misconception in Australia about taxes and tax planning. Everyone seems to think they're "paying too much" and believe that accountants can wave a magic wand and "save" you tax.

Accounting & Tax

The Risks Of Being A Company Director

10 min | Nathan Watt

Starting a company is easy. Too easy almost. Just be over 18, not bankrupt, fill in a form, pay the fee and you’ll have a Pty Ltd company registered with ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) in about 10 minutes.

Business Consulting

The Money Is In The Margins

10 min | Nathan Watt

Business is all about leverage. Leveraging other people's (employees) time, leveraging other people’s (investors, banks) money, leveraging systems and processes and leveraging assets (property, machines, software etc).

Business Consulting

The Hardest Question In Business

5 min | Nathan Watt

Those that have answered it (properly), usually end up succeeding. Those that don't/can't answer it, usually don't succeed. The end up floating along in the zone of mediocrity or become part of the alarming business failure statistics.

Accounting & Tax

The Balance Sheet Explained

15 min | Nathan Watt

It’s not how much you make it’s how much you keep – right?

Accounting & Tax

Temporary Full Expensing

15 min | Nathan Watt

Mr Speaker... "Over 99 per cent of businesses, employing over 11 million workers, can write off the full value of any eligible asset they purchase."

Accounting & Tax

Tax Tips

15 min | Nathan Watt

Your here for the list, not an intro, so let's get straight into it - 10 tax tips you can use any time of the year;

Accounting & Tax

Tax Planning 101

5 min | Nathan Watt

You can't plan to go to the beach, after you're already at the beach. The same goes for your taxes, you can't plan your taxes after the year is done. Get on the front foot with your taxes by following these simple steps to estimate your tax for the year and when the payments are due.

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Accounting & Tax

How To Save $1,833 In Tax This (and Every) Year With Your Car

15 min | Nathan Watt

First things first. I want to put a big fat disclaimer on this: Buying a car for “tax purposes” doesn’t save you money. I am absolutely not advocating you run out and get a car to save tax.

Accounting & Tax

What Happens If You Take Cash Out Of A Company? Division7a

15 min | Nathan Watt

Got a company? I mean a real company, as in a Pty Ltd legal structure? Then this one is for you.

Business Consulting

The Money Is In The Margins

10 min | Nathan Watt

Accounting & Tax

Beginner’s Guide To Salary Sacrifice

5 min | Nathan Watt

Here’s what you need to know when it comes to salary sacrifice and when it should be used, along with the advantages and considerations pertaining to it.

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