Tips & strategies to help your business grow

Are Christmas Gifts For Staff Tax Deductible?

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

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".

A Small Business’ Guide To Marketing Your Price

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).

A Guide To Superannuation For Small Business

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

6 ways to reduce your accounting fees

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!

5 Tips to Handling The Financial Crisis

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.

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.

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.

5 Steps To A Better Business

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.

5 Reasons You Need A Tax Specialist For Your Small Business

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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What Should A Small Business Board Of Advice Be Talking About?

Should You Buy Your Business Premises?

Do you really think “big” companies come unprepared, with no agenda, just having a chat about whatever has been bothering the CEO this last month? I know they have more resources than you, but you don’t need to spend a lot of time or money to get this right. It’s just a bit of planning.

General Mortgage Broking

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’;

Where Do You Start With Marketing?

I’ve been working with small businesses for years now advising them on a wide range of business issues. But it wasn’t until I started Watson & Watt, and got my hands dirty on my own business, that I really had to understand “marketing”.

How To Know If A Business Name Is Taken