Handys Accountants

About Handys Accountants

Handys are not just about numbers – we assist you to achieve your goals.

Our team of four accountants has almost 80 years of combined experience in providing trusted advice and services to businesses across Australian and New Zealand.

To assist us we have a Bookkeeper and two office assistants.

Despite the technical complexities underlying what we do, we are endeavor to keeping it simple; ensuring our communication and advice is practical and informative.

Handys Accountants in Upper Mount Gravatt, Brisbane, QLD is in the category of Accountants with expertise in Business & Company Tax Returns, Business Activity Statements Preparation, Accounting.

Some other services offered by Handys Accountants are ATO Tax Auditing, Bookkeeping, MYOB / Quicken Bookkeeping, Personal Income Tax Returns.

Phone Handys Accountants to make an appointment with our helpful staff.

Services

Let Handys Accountants help you with your Tax needs.

Accounting

We have a team of qualified accountants who will be happy to assist you with your bookkeeping queries.

Handys will prepare your statutory financial statements from your manual or computerised records and will be happy to spend time to explain the financial results with you.
Audit

As auditors our aim is to provide independent and objective assurance information and processes.  We provide a wide range of audit services to meet the need of our clients:

Private Companies

Clubs (associations) and Not For Profit organisations
Trust Accountants including real estate agents, travel agents and solicitors
Grant recipients
Superannuation Funds

Business Plans

A business plan is a written document that details the current status, projected needs and expected results of the business or the new venture.

A good business plan identifies where you are, where you want to be in the future, and how to get there.

A regular review of your business plan can assist you to keep your business on track and over time the business plan will need to be updated to take into account the changing conditions.

Business Advice

Handys can help you with every aspect of your business operation.  We can guide you, either personally or through our wide range of professional partners, from your vision of the business to its establishment right through until it eventually ceases.

Some of the areas we can help:

Budgets and Cash Flow Projections
Assets Protection and Wealth Creation
Estate Planning
Business Purchases and Sales
Computer Systems Consulting
Family Business Diagnostics

BSA Licences

We can assist you with the reporting requirements of the Building Services Authority (BSA) ensuring that your applications are lodged in a timely fashion reducing potential licensing issues.

Business Structures

We can advise which structure (Companies, Trusts, Partnerships and Sole Traders) would best suit your personal situation.

It is important to choose the right structure for your business now and what will be best suited as the business grows.

Bad choices now can leave your assets exposed and also create taxation problems down the track.

Company Secretarial and Services

Handys acts as the registered office for many of our clients companies maintaining their share registry and attending to the forms and paperwork required by ASIC (Australian Securities & Investment Commission). Most ASIC forms have lodgment and payment deadlines and failure to meet these can result in substantial penalties.

Maintain statutory records
Annual returns
Prepare minutes
Notify ASIC of any changes of addresses for directors, shareholders or  business premises
Changes of directors
Company searches
Establish companies and trusts

Due Diligence

Our due diligence procedures can give business buyers the assurance that the business being purchased is performing as suggested.

Rural Accounting

We provide accounting, taxation and consulting services to agricultural and regionally based business.
Small Business Advisory
By appreciation of our clients’ businesses and with our understanding of complex accountancy and taxation issues we are here to assist you with: taxation, compliance, strategies for growth, management and wealth creation. We specialise in working with small to medium size businesses.

Superannuation

Self Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF) has become an important part of the superannuation environment and provides the ability to directly control investments with greater flexibility in respects to tax planning and retirement benefits.  As an added benefit they can be utilized in estate planning and asset protection.

The duties and obligations placed on Trustees of SMSF can be onerous and Handys understand the legislation and can guide you through these compliance issues.

SMSF establishment
Trustee education
Audit and taxation compliance
Tax planning
Estate planning
Pre and Post retirement planning

Taxation

The accountants at Handys will ensure that you get the right support for both your business and personal tax affairs.  Each day we work with clients to ease their compliance issues and provide tax solutions to help them achieve their goals while complying with the various legislation’s.

Preparation of Tax returns
Taxation planning
Capital Gains Tax
Fringe Benefit Tax
GST  and BAS
Payroll Tax
Superannuation  Guarantee Charge