Accounting Services

By: DFK

Audit and Assurance

 

External Audit

• Statutory financial statement audits
• Trust account audits
• Superannuation fund audits
• System review audits
• Advice on accounting policies & accounting audit standards.
• some members are PCAOB registered for US clients

 

Internal Audit

• Risk Management
• Management review and assurance
• System reviews
• In-house internal audit roles and resources
• Fraud investigation and control
• Program evaluation and audit

 

Extensive Due Diligence Experience

We assist you in making investment decisions providing:

• concise, 'plain english' due diligence report
• insight into the future of the acquisition or investment
• assistance in disposal of your business:
  • preparing you for a buyer's due diligence
  • helping you maximise your after-tax proceeds.

 

Internal Systems Review

Our members

• Analyse business financial performance and operating systems to improve profitability and control.
• Assist with internal control systems implementation
• Give advice to assist in running the business more effectively and efficiently.

 

Accounting, Business Advice, Specialty Services

With expertise in all accounting and business services, we also have specialty skills such as:

• SIP audits
• Superannuation
• Management Consulting for government funded NFP and public sector programs
• Initial Product Offerings for public listings
• Commercial representation of Foreign Businesses
• Forensic Accounting

 

We are also experienced in:

• The Family Owned Business
• Succession Planning
• Corporate Affairs
• Bookeeping for small/medium businesses

 

Extensive contacts within the legal profession mean we assist clients with:

• Establishment of discretionary or unit trusts
• Amendments to trust deeds for change of trustees or other details
• Organising superannuation fund deeds

 

Taxation

Advice for Businesses such as:

• Corporate restructures
• International tax and transactions between related international parties (transfer pricing)
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Employee remuneration and share plan packages
• R&D expenditure concessions
• Export Market Development Grants
• Succession planning
• Goods and Services Tax
• Payroll Tax
• International Tax
• Fringe Benefits Tax
• State Taxes and Duties
• Tax Investigations by the ATO

 

Advice for Individuals such as:

• Tax compliance and tax audit management
• Proposed Investments' tax-effectiveness advice
• Tax reform issues (including consolidations)
• The taxation of trusts
• Tax effective structures
• Advice for overseas residents and expatriates
• International tax issues
• uper & Estate Planning
• Capital Gains Tax
• Private company loan advice
• Tax investigations by the ATO
• State based taxes

 

Forensic and Litigation

Our experts support your case in all the financial aspects of litigation, insurance claims and mediation ensuring you are prepared for any type of conflict or legal dispute.

 

Examples of situations which need our skills:

• the valuation of family and closely-held businesses conducted through private companies, trusts and partnerships or as sole traders in relationship breakdowns, exiting partner or shareholder issues, private equity or debt raisings and in buy/sell transactions
• the assessment of past and future economic loss in personal injury, public liability, product liability, professional indemnity and trade practices disputes.
• Investigative and forensic consulting, in particular the analysis of complex financial arrangements, group structures, the tracing of undisclosed assets
• assistance in fraud and criminal cases

 

Our top specialist holds bachelor and dual masters degrees majoring in economics, accounting and corporate valuation. He is particularly well experienced in all areas of family law and commercial litigation and is a respected expert witness appearing in the District, Supreme, Family and Federal Courts.