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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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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.

Accounting & Tax

Are Christmas Gifts For Staff Tax Deductible?

15 min | Nathan Watt

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

Accounting & Tax

6 ways to reduce your accounting fees

10 min | Nathan Watt

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!

Accounting & Tax

5 Tips to Handling The Financial Crisis

15 min | Nathan Watt

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.

Accounting & Tax

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.

Accounting & Tax

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.

Accounting & Tax

5 Reasons You Need A Tax Specialist For Your Small Business

15 min | Nathan Watt

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.

Accounting & Tax

4 Common Mistakes Small Business Make With The ATO

5 min | Nathan Watt

Tax is in Australia is complicated, that’s why we have one of the highest rates of tax agent dependence in the world, but even that doesn’t stop these mistakes from happening and with the tax office’s super smart algorithms tracking your every interaction and building a risk profile about your business and its directors, you can’t afford to make these mistakes any longer.

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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.

Business Consulting

How Do You Make More Sales?

5 min | Nathan Watt

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.

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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