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Learn why shareholder agreements are essential for governance, continuity, and protection. Explore key issues and benefits for business owners and partners.

In the first episode of our refreshed series, Beyond the Numbers, Financial Advisory Partner Darryn Hockley and Private Business Tax & Advisory Partner Craig Lawson, explore the characteristics of firms that are ‘option ready’.

Effectively managing a modern professional services firm requires a strategic approach to profits, cash flow, and equity.

Conversations with aged care providers at the close of 2022 identified four key themes that will take a front seat in Australia’s aged care sector in 2023 – the fundamentals of the sector (funding, regulation, governance), labour shortage and recruitment strategies, technology, and housing and aged care communities

Professional service firms have experienced growth and increased profitability over the last two years. The issue of succession – promoting, attracting and managing the retirement of equity participants – has never been more challenging.

In the past few years, we’ve seen increased focus from the Australian Tax Office (ATO) encouraging organisations to be transparent, demonstrate good corporate governance and have strong tax risk management frameworks in place. The ATO is now focusing on the tax governance of high-net-wealth privately owned groups – as part of their Top 500 and Next 5,000 programs.

In Brief is a four part series providing no-nonsense commentary on topical issues facing professional services firms and the professionals that practice within them.