A complete range of services designed to support your business, helping you to make informed decisions that lead to improved outcomes. A team of experienced professionals who bring years of industry experience, we use every technological advantage to ensure that you have access to the data and insight needed to drive your organisation forward in the right direction.
Business Start-Up
We help you bring your vision to life. Working with you on the practicalities of your feasibility study, we provide guidance for business structure and prepare the financial plans and budgets, complete regulatory paperwork and any financial proposals needed to raise funding.
In addition, our guidance can be maintained post launch if required, delivering our unique insight borne from years of experience in assisting new businesses through those challenging early years.
Budgeting
A reliable budget is the most important management tool there is, the basis for all analysis and decisions made by any management team. We will help you create the accurate and effective budget that provides the financial platform for your business to grow and move forward.
Our tailored approach ensures that our team can be as involved with budget preparation as you need, from complete management of the process from design to modelling, or a review of your internally produced budget. Whatever you choose, our diligent approach and experienced insight will deliver superb results for your business.
Cash Flow Forecasting
Even profitable businesses can find themselves with operational challenges thanks to financial limitations caused by a lack of cash flow.
We can help you avoid this through comprehensive cash flow modelling, delivering accurate forecasting that allows informed decision making for stock control, expenditure, taxation and creditor payments.
Company Secretarial Service
While you focus on business growth, we can take care of the full range of company secretarial duties needed to comply with all legislation. This includes all aspects of company regulations, preparation of minutes and resolutions along with advice on company formation and dissolution as needed. In addition, we will ensure the timely and accurate maintenance of statutory records and share transfers.
Trusts
We have substantial experience in the application and administration of trusts. This includes formation, annual account preparation, asset management, taxation and all aspects of deed maintenance.
Superannuation
We offer a range of superannuation services, including the creation of self-managing superannuation funds, ensuring regulatory compliance at all times, managing data returns, accounting and taxation requirements and audits as applicable.
In addition, we ensure that SMSF trustees and members are informed of all legislative requirements and ensure that the appropriate transmission methods are employed to maintain compliance.
Benchmarking
Your competition matters when making crucial decisions for your business. Understanding how you compare with them can shape your business the right way.
With access to detailed nationwide statistics and extensive industry experience within the team, we can help you interpret your industry data to assess your business performance in comparison to the competition. This allows us to provide the effective guidance needed to identify the key performance indicators that provide the insight required to accurately monitor overall business effectiveness.
Virtual CFO
Businesses are at their most vulnerable in the first few years after launch, where as owner you will be incredibly busy managing operational processes. However, the financial decisions you make during this early period can not only shape the future of the organisation, but effect whether there is a future at all. That is why it is so important to have a financial professional onboard during those formative years, yet few new businesses do because the cost of doing so is too high for fledgling businesses. Until now.
Leveraging our expertise and the technology we all have access to today, Red Dog Accountants have developed an innovative approach that provides the financial expertise your business needs without the expense. By providing a virtual Chief Financial Officer, who connects with your business daily via digital communications, you gain an in-house CFO without hiring a CFO for yourself. A complete service at just a fraction of the cost of hiring a qualified CFO, it is the answer for new businesses of all kinds.
HR
Effective management of employees has a significant impact on businesses of all sizes, even when just starting out. However, for start-ups, this responsibility usually falls on the owner or complete management team, who often take on numerous tasks outside their own skillset. This can work, but eventually all businesses reach appoint where from both a practical management point of view and the necessity of compliance with numerous employment legislation, a distinct HR team is required.
Our HR solution delivers professional, experienced HR oversight for your business without the investment required for an in-house team. Offering the best of internal and external approaches, we work with you to deliver a bespoke solution leveraging technology to provide daily oversight and effective management for a fraction of the cost of a complete in-house team.
Payroll
As your business grows, payroll becomes a time-consuming process that in the early days you may have completed yourself, but today you need help with. However, internal payroll can be expensive to set up and administer, requiring new hires and management oversight.
Instead, you can have the benefits of an internal payroll solution without the expense thanks to our quality payroll solution. Our team use cutting edge software to deliver accurate payroll submissions for all your employees, offering superb value and reliability that ensures your payroll administration is carried out on time, every time.
Business Review
In the ever more competitive markets that every business must deal with today, ensuring that you are maximizing your business potential and making key decisions with a complete understanding of the current position of every aspect of the business.
Our comprehensive business review provides insight into business processes across the organization, along with management performance, financials and sales performance to provide detailed insight into every aspect of the business.
This information is key to maximizing efficiency, productivity and productivity, allowing you to exploit new opportunities and outperform the competition.
Succession Planning
Time passes much faster than most of us like to admit, and in business this means that your key talent, including yourself, are closer to retirement than you accept. Having a strategy in place for succession of these key positions is crucial to the sustainability of the business, and it must be in place now to secure your future.
We help you identify and nurture the talent that will lead your business forward, providing a succession plan that ensures they have acquired the necessary the experience and skill, along with an understanding of your culture and values, before that succession takes place.
Business purchase and sale
Buying or selling a business brings with it many challenges. From valuation to assessing potential, there are huge variables that can make or break the viability of any transaction. Having overseen hundreds of business purchases from both the buyer and seller’s point of view, we understand the process better than most, and can provide the assessment and insight needed to make informed decisions at every stage.
Risk Management
Risk management can protect your business, reduce insurance premiums and safeguard your employees while reducing long-term expenditure. Our experienced risk assessment team will work with you to identify potential risk throughout your business and develop a robust continuity plan alongside a framework for risk registers and other analysis that enables the minimization of risk across the organization.
WHS Management
With a burden of responsibility for all employees, visitors and others affected by your business activities, regular WHS risk assessment and overall management are crucial for every business today. Our team will help you identify hazards, assess risks and develop a strategy to control those risks to maximize workplace safety and ensure compliance with legislation.