It doesn’t bear thinking about the events that could grind your business to a halt: adverse weather, fire, burglary, flu pandemics, power failures, legal action… they’ve all hit our headlines in recent years. If your business is affected, it could damage your customer service continuity, your reputation and your profitability. Continue reading
Category Archives: Client Case Studies
Structure your structure right to sleep well at night
At OBT Accounting & Tax we see many business owners being totally consumed with the day to day aspects of running their businesses. As a result, they fail to realise that the choice of entity under which they choose to operate their business can have a significant bearing on their financial assets as well as the stress and emotional distress it causes if something untoward happens. Continue reading
OBT soothes BAS backlog headache for small transport business
It is not an uncommon practice to outsource some of the functions of running your business to reliable suppliers. When this turned pear-shaped for one business owner, OBT quickly mobilised resources to stem damage and negotiate a favourable outcome with the ATO.
OBT re-allocates and protects agri-business assets to save the day when staffer sues
Protecting assets is no longer a consideration for only certain businesses. The fact is that all business owners are negligent unless they have carefully considered and water tight asset protection measures in place. Here OBT looks back at how doing just that saved one business when staff relations became difficult.
OBT’s advice comes up trumps when life office investment options fall short
Implementing appropriate practices to maximise your wealth upon retirement is a task that reaps more benefits the earlier you start. Doing so allows you to extract maximum value from your retirement planning efforts – whether that is through your business, or from other initiatives.
Embedding measurability into business DNA: OBT helps motor business reclaim profitability
It is alarming to see how quickly a business can go off course when one element is out of kilter. Here OBT outlines how we steered a client’s business back on course after determining where the problem lay which was right at the heart of its core – in its profits
OBT shapes hardware business value and tax minimisation strategies to set-up retirement
Like many initiatives in business, it pays to plan and implement strategies early to optimise gains at crucial times. Here OBT illustrates how involvement at the planning stages of a business sale helped one couple make the most of their transition into retirement.



