Services

If you are looking for financial services and advice, Mackay accounting specialists Whitson Dawson provide a wide variety of services, aimed at managing your tax, reducing your financial risk, improving your business and achieving your financial needs and goals.

Whether it be business advice, planning or personal accounting solutions, our goal is achieving yours, so we ensure we work as hard as you do by understanding your financial goals and needs whilst giving you the appropriate financial advice and business support you require.

Taxation

Our taxation services include:

Preparation of Income Tax Returns for individuals, partnerships, trusts, companies and superannuation funds
Tax Planning Strategies for management of taxation for individuals and businesses
Taxation Advice, planning for Capital Gains Tax and Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Taxation advice for a variety of industries and businesses
Quarterly performance analysis and planning

Accountancy

Our accountancy services include:

Bookkeeping Services and advice
Financial Analysis
Financial Statement preparation and support
Preparation of Financial Statements

Business Advice

Tax planning and tax minimisation
Record-keeping systems
Cash flow planning
Financial and business advice
Business start up advice and structured advice
Growth strategies
Business exit strategies
Business valuation

Self-Managed Superannuation

Our superannuation services include:

Preparation of annual Financial Statements
Income Tax Returns for self-managed superannuation funds
Auditing of self managed superannuation funds
Assistance with formation of self managed superannuation funds

Audits

Our audit services include:

Audit and assurance
Advice on legislative and regulatory compliance
Advice on corporate governance and risk management strategies
Analysis of internal controls and processes
Business analysis and advisory services

Estate Planning

Our professional team will work with your solicitors to assist the development of documentation of estate planning addressing issues regarding structures, assets and liabilities, including identifying Capital Gains Tax issues that may arise.

Rural Accounting & Advice

Whitson Dawson and its ancestral firms have been working with primary producers for the last 130 years.

We take pride and deliver in the specialist advice that primary producers require. Primary production businesses are different from other small and medium businesses and your accountant needs to have experience in this area to provide the right advice. It’s often more of a way of life than a business that we are dealing with.

Our firm specialises in the different tax legislation that the sugar and cattle industries are subject to. We also specialise in the particulars of the industry that are unique – for instance, passing down the farm or property to the next generation, purchasing or selling an agricultural property and annual tax planning advice. Each example here is an intricate transaction that affects the whole family or business unit.

Every primary production business is different – different ownership, different assets, different plant and equipment and different management/farming processes. Due to our large primary production client base we are confident we have the depth of experience to tailor our service to each individual client.