Our Business Advisory Services

Dolman Bateman provides the right solutions, tailored to address your individual needs.

Our experienced staff specialize in providing the following services to our clients:

• Taxation services, including
  • Tax minimization strategies capital gains tax
  • Goods and services tax (GST)
  • Fringe benefits tax (FBT)
  • Payroll tax
  • Income tax
  • Superannuation
• Property and development
• Asset protection
• Retirement planning/Superannuation structures
• Business structures
• Taxation planning
• Strategic and business planning
• Business efficiency review
• Implementation of fraud protection and minimization plans
• Remuneration planning and salary packaging
• Business management
• Preparation and analysis of financial accounts
• Implementation of reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Assistance with loan applications
• Cash flow analysis
• Budgeting
• Grooming for sale of business
• Business valuations
• Purchase of business – due diligence review

Partnering You in Your Business Needs

Dolman Bateman’s senior practitioners have extensive business and commercial experience.

Combining this with our forensic investigative backgrounds gives you the best business partners to work with.

We know what works and what doesn’t.

Businesses need professional assistance throughout the business cycle – from start-up, growth, sustaining and protecting, succession planning, to winding up.

There are no great secrets to successful businesses – they plan well, and use the best people.

We work with our clients to understand their needs, wants and dreams. And we can work with you to implement strategies to help attain the right results.

How Our Forensic Work Can Help Your Business

Having spent many years investigating the business issues which end up in litigation, we are able to assist businesses in establishing the right culture and transparency needed for success when people work together.

Too often, improper business arrangements are made because “he/she is my sister, brother or best friend”.

Most disputes are between “good” friends or family members.

We can assist you to keep these good friends and family relations on track.

Transparency, or lack of it, is one of the main causes of business relationship breakdowns.

The expectations of one, or both, of the parties are not met and people start looking at and questioning things.

A successful business starts with a good business plan which sets out goals and expectations, and each party’s responsibilities and accountabilities, duties and roles.

This is followed by an extensive management/partnership agreement which formalizes the arrangement and covers all contingencies, setting out clearly and succinctly the “who”, “what”, “when”, “where”, “how” and “why”. We can assist you and your lawyers in formalizing this agreement.

You then need to create the right culture by having systems and controls in place which allow for transparency at all levels. Most fraud occurs because people think they can get away with it.

These systems and controls are not limited to the accounting function but apply across the board, eg having asset management systems in place which prevent loss, theft and private usage, and putting in place correct and transparent charges between any family or associated business (this being a major cause of problems).

Let us help you to minimize your exposure to the risk of fraud and partnership breakdown.

We believe that much of the litigation we see could have been avoided with the right preparation. You need to prepare well to avoid disaster.