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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 7 years I know that more sales is actually business strategy, not marketing and sales.

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.

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

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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Superannuation

Drivers of Performance

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Implementation

Strategy

General Mortgage Broking

Accounting & Tax

Tax Minimisation and Planning For Small Business

15 min | Nathan Watt

Tax Planning. What a phrase. It gets bandied around a bit, actually, probably just by accountants. But clients tend to nod their head and agree that yes, if you say we need to plan our taxes, then we probably should. So what the hell are we talking about?

Business Consulting

Should You Raise Your Prices?

10 min | Nathan Watt

More profit for no extra work? Sounds great right? All the increased revenue goes straight to increasing your net profit as you've not added any costs - it's pure profit.

General Mortgage Broking

Should You Buy Your Business Premises?

15 min | Nathan Watt

I regularly get asked from business owners whether they should buy their business premises instead of rent, and my advice is always the same. You need to look at this through two different lens’;

Business Consulting

Sales Is Not A Dirty Word

10 min | Nathan Watt

One of the biggest challenges I faced in my career as an accountant and business consultant is sales. And if I felt the heat when I was working for other people, it magnified to the intensity of the sun, when I started my own business with no customers.

Accounting & Tax

15 min | Nathan Watt

How do you register for GST? And what happens when you do register for GST? Find out this and how you become the nation's (unpaid) tax collector. Exciting times right? Let’s get into it.

Accounting & Tax

Property Development: Tax Implications

5 min | Nathan Watt

Property development is without doubt the most popular thing people want to do to make money that I’ve heard in my advisory career.

Accounting & Tax

Personal Services Income: A Beginner’s Guide

5 min | Nathan Watt

Personal Services Income, or PSI, is given as a reward for an individual's personal efforts and skills. At least, that's how the Australian Tax Office sums it up. When it comes to your taxes, PSI is a common type of income for Sole Traders and individuals who earn money through an interposed entity (consultants and contractors) like a company or family trust.

Accounting & Tax

Parramatta Accounting Firms, Services & Tax Agents

5 min | Nathan Watt

Doing accounts is few people’s idea of a good time and, understandably, many companies decide to outsource their bookkeeping to an accountant. However, choosing just any accountant that crops up on your radar isn’t the smartest option. There is a stark divide in terms of qualifications that a tax professional can hold so it is important that you find accountants in Parramatta who is certified to meet your needs.

Business Consulting

Offset vs Redraw: What’s The Difference

10 min | Nathan Watt

Accounting & Tax

More Stimulus For Some | JobMaker Hiring Credits

15 min | Nathan Watt

The JobMaker Hiring Credit scheme was passed into law in mid-November 2020 as part of the 2020-21 Federal Budget, and will operate until 6 October 2021.

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Business Consulting

How To Start A Business In Australia

15 min | Nathan Watt

So you’ve got an idea. It’s growing and growing it’s all consuming – it’s all you can think about. You just need to know how to start a business in Australia and money will fall from the sky, you’ll work from the beach and come and go as you please. Less Stress and more money right?

Business Consulting

Sales Is Not A Dirty Word

10 min | Nathan Watt

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.

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).

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