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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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General Accounting & Tax

Know your numbers

Structuring

Superannuation

Drivers of Performance

Goal Setting

Implementation

Strategy

General Mortgage Broking

Accounting & Tax

You (Probably) Don’t Have A Tax Problem

10 min | Nathan Watt

A common complaint I hear, mostly from business owners, is they are "paying too much tax".

Business Consulting

Why Your Small Business Needs A Forecast

15 min | Nathan Watt

If I told you what your bank balance was going to be in 7 months time. Would you be able to tell me if I was wrong? Are you always a little surprised by payments to the ATO, or super?

Accounting & Tax

Why Work With Mid Tier Accounting Firms In Sydney?

5 min | Nathan Watt

Mid-tier firms sound like they’re the best of both worlds right? Big enough to have a good reputation and some really smart technicians to make sure your accounting and tax is sorted but not as expensive and elite as the big 4. And If you need services like audit, corporate finance or international tax, then taking your business to mid or top tier accounting firms in Sydney is probably best for you.

Business Consulting

Why 45% Of Small Business Starting Today Won’t Last 3 Years And What They Can Do About It

5 min | Nathan Watt

It's a staggering statistic isn’t it? Almost every 2nd business that starts this year, won’t exist in just 3 years. If you dig deeper into the data set (which you can find here), you also find that 20% of business fail in the first year! Not even 12 months in, and the business (and the dreams of the founders) are dashed.

Accounting & Tax

Which Business Structure Is Right For You?

15 min | Nathan Watt

A key component to business success is ensuring you have the right legal structure for where you're going. In fact it's one of the very foundations of our 3 step strategy with clients.

Business Consulting

Where Do You Start With Marketing?

15 min | Nathan Watt

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”.

Accounting & Tax

When Inflation, Wages & Interest Rates Are Increasing, How Much Do You Need To Increase Your Sales By?

10 min | Nathan Watt

The cost of everything is going up. When wages, inflation, interest rates are increasing what does this mean to your profit and what do you need to increase your prices by just to make the same profit?

Accounting & Tax

What your small business should be doing each month

15 min | Nathan Watt

Another month is over, and you’re on to the next one, days and weeks roll into each other and before you know it, the year is over, and you look to the bank accounts to see if you’ve “made any money”. Sound familiar?

Business Consulting

What You Need To Do After You’ve Set Goals

15 min | Nathan Watt

Where are you? When running a small business, the most correct answer can be “everywhere”. I get it. I’m not immune to it either.

Business Consulting

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

15 min | Nathan Watt

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.

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Business Consulting

Do You Know Your Numbers?

5 min | Nathan Watt

Every business owner needs to be more than familiar with their numbers. They need to know them truly madly deeply.

Accounting & Tax

How To Save $1,833 In Tax This (and Every) Year With Your Car

15 min | Nathan Watt

First things first. I want to put a big fat disclaimer on this: Buying a car for “tax purposes” doesn’t save you money. I am absolutely not advocating you run out and get a car to save tax.

Accounting & Tax

What Are Pay As You Go Instalments (PAYGI)?

15 min | Nathan Watt

You’ve just paid your tax bill and now you’ve got a letter from the tax office saying you need to pay more but now it’s quarterly?

Accounting & Tax

Australian Resident For Tax Purposes Explained

15 min | Nathan Watt

If you’re an Australian resident for tax purposes you pay tax on your worldwide income. This can have a massive impact on how much tax you pay. So in this article you'll learn when you're considered an Australian tax resident, even if you don't have permanent residency or visa, what happens on entering the country, and what happens if you are leaving.

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