Services

Hardwickes has the knowledge and experience necessary to help you with the complex financial accounting issues related to your business and its life cycle.

We provide advice for clients starting up including:

• Business valuations when buying an existing business
• Feasibility studies
• Business and investment structures
• Strategic planning
• Budgeting

We also provide advice to existing business including:

• Strategic planning and implementation
• Budgeting
• Periodical management reporting
• Compliance reporting
• Company secretarial services
• Succession planning

When a business ceases, or you leave an enterprise, we provide advice for:

• Succession planning
• Business valuations for the sale of your business
• Funding, income tax, capital gains tax and superannuation consequences

All business and individuals need to plan and manage their taxation outcomes. This can best be achieved where Hardwickes develops a relationship with our clients that permits us to be involved in each stage of decision making.

We provide practical and straightforward advice in the following areas:

• Planning
  • Tax planning advice
  • Investment property advice
  • Salary packaging
  • LAFHA and travel allowances
  • GST transactional advice

• Compliance
  • Income tax returns
  • Capital gains tax calculations
  • Fringe benefits tax return
  • Payroll tax returns
  • Activity statements
  • ATO audits

Hardwickes has the knowledge and experience necessary to help you with complex financial reporting issues and strengthen the effectiveness of your risk management processes, controls and corporate governance processes that you have in place to ensure you achieve your constitutional goals and objectives.

Our existing audit clients include:

• Unlisted public companies
• Large proprietary companies
• Companies limited by guarantee
• Associations
• Co-operatives
• Joint ventures
• Unincorporated bodies
• Real estate agent’s trust accounts
• Legal practitioner’s trust accounts
• Superannuation funds

Superannuation is a vital component in a comprehensive plan for your financial success. Hardwickes has significant experience and knowledge in the operation of superannuation in meeting financial goals. We can assist self managed superannuation funds with:

Our existing audit clients include:

• Implementation
• Administration
• Reporting
• Compliance
• Tax Planning

Effective collating and reporting of financial data is necessary to allow management and their advisors monitor financial performance. Hardwickes has had exposure to and assisted clients with:

Our existing audit clients include:

• Setup and implementation of a variety of accounting packages
• Support and training of client staff on the operation of accounting packages