Services

Cameron Patterson & Co provides a comprehensive range of advice and services structured to meet the individual needs of our clients.

Taxation Consulting
Our services in this area include:

• Annual Income Tax Returns
• Income Tax
• Tax Planning
• GST
• Fringe Benefits Tax
• Salary Packaging
• Tax Audit Advice
• Capital Gains Tax
• Property Investment Taxation
• Tax Audit Risk Assessment

At Cameron Patterson & Co we focus on delivering timely and quality tax services.  We help you navigate the complex tax landscape by providing holistic tax solutions that support your commercial and personal objectives.

Tax can be a significant cost. We view the total cost of tax as being made up of many components:

• The tax you pay
• Compliance costs – forms and reporting
• Advice
• Record keeping
• Audit costs – adverse outcome, eg penalties
• Audit costs – successful outcome, eg opportunity cost of defending a correct position
• Change and uncertainty opportunity costs
• Entity maintenance costs
• Planning

Our approach is to assist our clients optimise these often competing constraints and control overall exposure to total tax related costs.

We operate in accordance with the tax laws. We play it straight. We play the rules, but we play them hard on behalf of our client.

There are legitimate tax concessions.

As an agenda item or motivation tax motive should never rank higher than second place. In our view commercial good sense or non-financial personal priorities should always be of prime concern. There is never any sense in losing money just to save tax.

Taxation is a significant cost for business and investment and a vital business issue. In addition to the usual incidence of taxation, there are many costly traps in the complexity of taxation legislation. Yet taxation concessions may also be significant, where they apply. If concessions are ignored, taxation costs are compounded. For these reasons, proper consultation on taxation implications for any transaction is absolutely necessary. At Cameron Patterson & Co we believe that dealing efficiently and effectively with taxation issues is a key foundation of business success.

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Financial Accounting
In order to manage you must first measure.

Our services in this area include:

• Annual and Interim Financial Statements
• Financial Statement Analysis and Interpretation
• Accounting System Design & Review
• Business Financial Health Assessment
• Computerised Accounting Advice & Support, eg MYOB

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Business Management and Development
Whether a start-up or an established business, making the right decision at the right time is essential.

From the outset, effective structuring and planning of your business will help you to achieve your goals. At Cameron Patterson & Co we work closely with you as part of your adviser team to ensure you are able to make decisions about your business that are timely, effective and outcome focused.

Our services in this area include:

• Regular Performance Review
• Budgeting
• Business Planning
• Strategy Development
• Risk Management and Asset Protection support
• Financial Accounting and Bookkeeping
• Business Financial Health Assessment

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New Business Venture Consulting

• Business Structure Advice
• Business Valuation
• Finance Application Support
• Budgeting & Cash Flow Forecasting
• Due Diligence Review
• Business Planning

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Corporate Services
We offer support to clients by dealing directly with ASIC in relation to:

• Company Formation
• Company Register Maintenance
• Registered Office Facility
• Company Change of Name
• Company Deregistration

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Retirement planning
For all business owners, business structuring and retirement planning go hand in hand.

We will assist you to organise and review your existing arrangements, to focus on the goals you need to achieve to secure your future, and to take the practical steps needed to set these in place.

At Cameron Patterson & Co we work closely with your financial planning and legal advisers to ensure an optimum outcome for you in a wide range of areas including:

• Self Managed Superannuation Funds
• Allocated Pension Funds
• Estate Planning
• Business Succession Planning

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Liaising With Other Business Service Providers
At Cameron Patterson & Co we work closely with your other advisers to ensure an optimum outcome for you in a wide range of areas. Some types of adviser we commonly work with are:

• Lawyers
• Financial Planners
• Bankers and Financiers
• Insurers
• Brokers

It is always better when all advisers are part of the same loop.

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In this section

• Taxation Consulting
• Financial Accounting
• Business Management and Development
• New Business Venture Consulting
• Corporate Services
• Retirement Planning
• Liaising with other Business Service Providers