Keeping your tax and expenses in check when you are self-employed

DLA Partners Professional Accountants and Advisors in Brisbane Keeping Your Tax And Expenses In Check When You Are Self Employed

Contracting or freelancing requires you to wear a lot of hats. Relationship-building, keeping track of your time, marketing your skills and actually doing the work. But one of your priorities should also be establishing how you handle your money and setting the groundwork for good habits. Understand your deductions Before you start, it’s essential to […]

Should you buy or lease your business assets?

DLA Partners Professional Accountants and Advisors in Brisbane Should You Buy Or Lease Business Assets

There are certain items of equipment, machinery and hardware that are essential to the operation of your business – whether it’s the delivery van you use to run your home-delivery food service, or the high-end digital printer to run your print business. But when a critical business asset is required, should you buy this item […]

Understanding your revenue drivers

DLA Partners Professional Accountants and Advisors in Brisbane Understanding Your Revenue Drivers

For your business to make money, you need to generate revenue. You produce revenue through your usual business activity, by making sales, getting your invoices paid, or taking cash from paying customers. So, the better you are at selling your products/services and bringing money into the business, the higher your revenue levels will be. But […]

How to use forecasts and scenario-planning

DLA Partners Professional Accountants and Advisors in Brisbane How To Use Forecasts And Scenario Planning

For centuries, accounting was all about reviewing historic information – but that only told you about the past, not what was going to happen in the future. If you’re only looking back at past periods and historic numbers, this limits the insights you can achieve for your business. With a backward-looking ideology, it becomes difficult […]