Accounting for your future with Handys Accountants.

Handys Accountants is an accounting firm based in Mt Gravatt, Australia which helps individuals and businesses to grow and maximises their true potential.

Accounting

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

Audit

As auditors our aim is to provide independent and objective assurance information and processes.

Our Services

  • Accounting
  • When you have a highly accomplished team of accountants, like the one at Handys, working for you, then you need not worry about things like bookkeeping, payroll, superannuation and various other accounting details.

    Our team will always be there by your side, helping out your business by providing you with high-end accounting services.

    What's more, our dedicated team will also take care of your statutory reporting of financial and non-financial information that is mandatory for your business organization to meet its reporting requirements.

  • Small Business and Rural Accounting
  • Many accounting firms do not fully acknowledge the problems that small business owners and rural business owners operating in rural areas face.

    This is why, we at Handys believe that it is our duty and responsibility to assist all small business owners including business owners in rural industry.

    Our team will make sure that accounting services and timely advice reaches our client, irrespective of the location.

  • Audit
  • Our Audit services, Harwil Auditors is a joining of Handys Accountants audit team with David Hartmann Auditors. We specialise in the Audits of Clubs, Associations and Not For Profit organisations. We believe that in order to run a successful organisation or business, it is absolutely crucial that you pay the utmost attention to who is auditing your organisation or business.

    Auditing, while meeting your statutory reporting requirements, gives you the best opportunity to review your overall organisation or business and it's governance, and that is exactly where we come into our element.

    Our audit team independently works with clients to access the organisation or business and report our audit findings in a timely and precise manner including reporting on any potential threats to the organisation or business.

    Our Audit services include:

    • Registered Company Audits
    • Company Limited By Guarantee
    • Large Private Companies
    • Clubs (Associations) and Not For Profit organisations
    • Sporting , Cultural & Arts Associations
    • Trust AccountV05 including accountants, real estate agents, travel agents and solicitors
    • SMSF audits
    • Grant recipients
    • QBCC Licensing


  • SMSFs and Superannuation
  • In layman's term, Superannuation or Super, as it is commonly referred to in the industry, is nothing but a long-term strategy for saving money in order to have a safe and secured retirement life.

    It is an excellent and fruitful way of investing money and usually have a low tax rate.

    Introduced in the 1980s by the Australian Federal Government, Self-Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSFs) and Superannuation, has become an important aspect when it comes to ensuring benefits for retired people.

    However, despite these benefits, the duties and obligations that are placed on Trustees of SMSF requires a great deal of effort.

    And it is for this reason that our team at Handys are highly valued as they understand the legislation and its regulatory requirements and can guide you through the various compliance issues of:

    • SMSF establishment
    • Trustee obligations and education
    • Audit and taxation compliance
    • Tax and Estate planning
    • Pre and Post retirement planning
    • Pension benefits
  • Due Diligence
  • Due Diligence is a step that a business owner must take before entering into a partnership or purchase contract with or for another enterprise.

    In simple terms, Due Diligence can also be referred to as "required carefulness", mainly because it is nothing more but a precautionary measure that is taken by business acquirers.

    When you put trust in our Due Diligence procedures, we make sure that you are, in fact, entering into a partnership with or buying a business that has a clear and proven track-record.

  • Small Business Advisory
  • We are very much a medium to small business Accountancy services provider and pride ourselves on providing business owners tools to successfully run their business.

    Our team are well acquainted with the complexity of accountancy, payroll and superannuation obligations and reporting, BAS, GST and compliance taxation requirements for medium to small business and by availing our services you can expect the following:

    • Skilled and experienced advisors who are always ready to answer any question.
    • Resources to assist in software choices and setup.
    • Access to a resource of business information; and many other perks.
  • Company Secretarial and Services
  • When it comes to corporate governance, it takes more than just keeping records.

    It involves going to the heart of how exactly a business functions and also the transparent disclosure of crucial information between management, Board members, investors and stakeholders.

    At Handys, we not only keep you updated about the current industry practices, but also ensure compliance with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and the Corporations Act as well.

    Following are some of the aspects for which we provide help:

    • 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
  • Business Plans
  • A business plan, like any other plan, is a written document of a business organizations aspiration, the methods that needs to be applied in order to achieve these goals, and finally, the time within which these goals need to be accomplished.

    A good business plan not only shows you where you stand at the moment but it also predicts where you are going to be in the future.

    However, it is also important to remember that a business plan might change from time to time depending on the current circumstances, and it needs to be updated in accordance with the changing times.

  • Business Advice
  • There is no rule book that suggests a business has to run by itself without any outside help.

    On the contrary, we at Handys like many other accounting firms believe that a business can function properly and up to its maximum potential with crucial inputs from financial experts.

    Our team of financial professionals can help ensure that you are able to run your business smoothly by providing you with the best possible support right from the beginning of your endeavour to the point until it ceases to exist.

    Our business advisors can assist you in solving any business related issues, grow your network and also help in gaining funding.

    Following are some of the areas we can help you out with:

    • Budgets and Cash Flow Projections
    • Asset Protection and Wealth Creation
    • Estate Planning
    • Business Purchases and Sales
    • Computer Systems Consulting
    • Family Business Diagnostics
  • Business Structures
  • We have been around a long time and our team of professionals with unmatched expertise in the field of accountancy and finance are more than equipped to guide you with the business structure that will suit you the best.

    Some of the basic types of business structures are:

    • Sole Proprietorship
    • Partnerships
    • Discretionary Family Trust
    • Corporations (Pty Ltd)
    • Unit Trusts

    We help our clients to choose the best structure that is going to suit your business right through from its beginnings to when it slowly begins to grow to when it's blooming.

    Failing to choose the correct structure might leave you with your assets exposed, paying too much tax and also create long-term taxation problems.

  • QBCC — Licences
  • In order to set up a construction business in Australia, you need to have a QBCC Licence, this licence is issued to a licensee, which allows a person to carry out building construction.

    It is only after the approval of such a licence that the Queensland Building Construction Corporation or QBCC gives the green light to go ahead with the construction.

    We can help with meeting QBCC reporting requirements, Accountant reviews and QBCC Audits and licensing issues.

  • Taxation
  • As a long operating, respectable and professional accountancy firm, we feel like it is our duty to help our clients with both their personal and business tax affairs. Every day we work diligently with our clients in order to sort out their compliance issues and also present them with valuable tax solutions that go a long way in achieving their business goals.

    Here are some of the aspects with which we help our clients:

    • Preparation and lodgement of Tax returns
    • Taxation structuring and planning
    • Capital Gains Tax
    • Fringe Benefit Tax
    • GST and BAS
    • Payroll Tax
    • Superannuation Guarantee Charge
    • Tax Rulings
    • TPAR