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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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Know your numbers

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Superannuation

Drivers of Performance

Goal Setting

Implementation

Strategy

General Mortgage Broking

Accounting & Tax

Are Christmas Gifts For Staff Tax Deductible?

15 min | Nathan Watt

So it’s Christmas and what have you done…..about gifts for your staff.

Accounting & Tax

An Employer’s Guide To Stapled Superannuation

10 min | Nathan Watt

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

A Small Business’ Guide To Marketing Your Price

10 min | Nathan Watt

Pricing is perhaps the most important choice you will make when selling your products and services. Price is an indicator that lets customers know what to expect. High price = this must be good. Low price = probably not going to work/break in a short time (and that can be just fine).

Accounting & Tax

A Guide To Superannuation For Small Business

15 min | Nathan Watt

Superannuation has been around a while now. The earliest instances can actually be traced back to Federation in 1900.

Accounting & Tax

6 ways to reduce your accounting fees

10 min | Nathan Watt

Accounting Fees, I imagine paying them would be right up there with the paying the dentist after a tooth extraction; Painful, and expensive. Maybe that’s why my subconscious led me to study accounting. It was self preservation!

Accounting & Tax

5 Tips to Handling The Financial Crisis

15 min | Nathan Watt

If you’re going to eat a shit sandwich – don’t nibble. Commit yourself to the fact that this isn’t going to be pleasant, but take some big bites, chew like hell and you can get through it.

Accounting & Tax

5 Things Your Family Trust Needs To Do Before 30 June

5 min | Nathan Watt

Every year your accountant slips you a document says something about Bamford, and sends you an invoice. Ever wondered what that’s about? Well wonder no more.

Accounting & Tax

5 Things You Need To Do When Hiring Staff

5 min | Nathan Watt

You need to hire your first staff member, or maybe you're just wondering whether you've got everything under control.

Business Consulting

5 Steps To A Better Business

10 min | Nathan Watt

When people start a business they tend to have a vision of something they want to build. They want it to look and feel a certain way, or get to a certain size. But after being in business for a little while they can get a lost, or stuck and don’t know how to move their business forward. This is because small business generally don’t have a strategy and don’t know where to begin in creating one, so here I’ll outline the 5 Step process we use to get you back on track, and build the business of your dreams.

Accounting & Tax

5 Reasons You Need A Tax Specialist For Your Small Business

15 min | Nathan Watt

We live in a DIY age, where people imagine to themselves that with a quick click on Google they can suddenly turn into an expert on pretty much anything, I mean when I google my sickness symptoms it keeps telling me I have Lupus, so it’s easy to be convinced in believing you’re suddenly an expert on tax preparation.

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Business Consulting

How Do You Make More Sales?

5 min | Nathan Watt

Business Consulting

5 Reasons Why Business Plan Writers Can Help Small Businesses

15 min | Nathan Watt

So, you want to increase revenue, grow your profits, become more efficient, reduce stress levels, and reach your future goals for your business; who doesn't?

Accounting & Tax

The Balance Sheet Explained

15 min | Nathan Watt

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

General Mortgage Broking

What Do Lenders Use As Your Income When You’re Self-Employed?

10 min | Nathan Watt

If you’ve ever wondered how much money you could borrow you’ve no doubt found a lender’s borrowing capacity calculator, plugged in a few details and out spits a number – and if you're an employee for the most part that’s fine. There are a few wrinkles when it comes to casual employment, bonus', and regular overtime etc but generally PAYG income is what it is. But business owner income. Ohh boy. Buckle up.

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