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WA Small Business: The Lasting Impact of COVID-19

April 21st, 2021

“Success means only doing what you do well, letting somebody else do the rest” -Goldstein S Truism. In Western Australia alone there are over 225,000 registered small businesses, with 78% of those businesses based in the Perth metro area. Despite the upturn in fortunes for the Australian economy (and WA’s in particular), the current globalread more

Deal Execution – Maximising Success in Business Acquisitions

April 15th, 2021

In our previous articles for Incisive Due Diligence (focusing on the business acquisition space) we’ve covered some of the important phases and factors involved in purchasing a business and making it work. Deal execution is the art of bringing all the moving parts together pre-settlement, and that’s what we’ll be looking at today. Executing aread more

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): Another Blockchain Bubble?

April 6th, 2021

In the world of cryptocurrency, blockchain and other disruptive technologies, it may seem that a new way of doing things emerges every 5 minutes. Conversations around the long-term validity of Bitcoin and the like certainly won’t be going away any time soon, so it stands to reason that Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) should be subject toread more

Property Opportunities in the Booming WA Economy

March 24th, 2021

At long last, things finally appear to be looking up! WA is heading towards a budget surplus, the resources sector is ticking along nicely, the property market is turning its fortunes around, the national unemployment rate is falling, and consumer confidence is on track to return to (and eventually exceed) pre-COVID levels. As such, savvyread more

Refresher: The Main Residence CGT Exemption

March 19th, 2021

When it comes to an important moment in your life like selling your family home, the last thing you want is to be slugged with an unnecessary tax liability. Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is something that we’ve covered at length in a few previous articles (see here and here); but today we’ll dig a littleread more

WA Property Market Update – February 2021

March 11th, 2021

Plenty has been said about 2020 up to this point – and with a year so difficult it’s not hard to see why. As we’ve done plenty of “taking stock” in our last few articles, for the February WA property market update we’ll put a bit more emphasis on looking ahead. As consumer confidence continuesread more

Business Branding – Creating, Updating & Evolving

February 24th, 2021

As accountants and business advisers, we help clients every day with the behind-the-scenes operations of their business. While tax, compliance, strategy, bookkeeping, and insurance are all critical components of running a business, the “look & feel” of things can often take a back seat. Business branding is an important piece of the puzzle not onlyread more

My Term Deposit is About to Mature – What are my Options?

February 19th, 2021

Term deposits have been a staple of many people’s wealth portfolio for a long time. However, with interest rates slashed in recent years, we are now seeing the banks (especially the “Big 4”) offering miserly interest rates of around 0.5% per annum. This is now lower than the rate of inflation, so term deposit investorsread more