Annual Accounts and Tax Returns

Accounting & Tax Services

Helping you with your legal obligations

The preparation of annual accounts and tax returns is one of those services which is considered to be a ritual for small business. It serves some very useful purposes because the annual accounts:

  • help you meet the business structure’s regulatory requirements.
  • assist in the preparation of the business Income Tax Return.
  • are relied upon by Financiers as a primary source of verifiable information.
  • provide very useful financial information for owners and management.
  • are critical in the data room when a purchaser is looking to buy your business.
Annual Accounts and Tax Returns

This is a minimum service that all our clients expect from us and we have a standard process to enable us to complete them for you on a timely basis using your data from any accounting software that you may use, be it Xero, MYOB, Reckon, Quickbooks, Attache, Arrow, Triumph, Sybiz, Peach or industry specific software.

We work closely with your bookkeeper and prefer to come out to you to make most of the year-end adjustments live on your system so that your accounting records are in sync with the financial accounts. Our clients find that process works really well for them as it helps us explain the adjustments to your bookkeeper and enables on the spot training, resulting in a better trained bookkeeper and more accurate accounting for your business.

Or we can assist you with your Bookkeeping, Accounting and BAS needs.

Naturally the preparation of tax returns follows the annual accounts exercise be they for companies, trusts, partnerships, superfunds and individuals.

Tax effectiveness which is well within the boundaries of the tax legislation is essential and thought through for every assignment we are involved with.

“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”

Arthur C. Clarke

“As far as what your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you’re screwed”

Drew Carey