Accounting

We provide a range of accounting services from maintaining clients’ basic financial records, to managing the full accounting function either on site or offsite. We have a number of professional staff who attend our clients’ premises on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis to do basic accounting work including lodgement of BAS returns and bank reconciliations.

Chesterfield Group is focused on equipping you to be the best in your field of endeavour. That may mean we continue to look after all of your accounting needs, or we assist you in finding and training relevant staff to do the accounting work in house.

The accounting area is able to assist with the development of financial plans to present to funding providers. We also develop management reports for small business to assist in active management of the enterprise, particularly for cash flow.

We understand that as great engineers for example, you can’t be expected to be great money managers. That’s where we step in! Consequently as accountants we can be very prescriptive in our approach to assisting your business meet its obligations and maximise its return to the owners, including advising on directors’ fees and salaries.

Our Accounting Director is currently the Queensland President of CPA Australia.

Law

Our legal experience is focused on commercial business practice particularly at start up and when dealing with taxation. We focus on Commercial and Corporate matters such as

• Shareholder, partnership and joint venture arrangements
• Business sales and purchases including child care centres
• Trusts
• Business Structuring
• Taxation advice

We are able to assist you with your Wills and Powers of Attorney.

 Our network of legal professionals are able to provide you with assistance in almost any area of law - just ask and we will be able to assist.

Taxation

• Business structuring
• Duty, GST and general taxation issues
• BAS lodgement
• Taxation returns from individual to corporations
• Tax implications of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and capital raising activities
• Taxation obligations of corporations and officers and associates

Human Resources

• Recruitment
• Training
• Team development
• Driving a performance culture
• Developing mentoring programs
• Development of HR systems and procedures
• Facilitation of planning days and other outcome driven meetings
• Development of strategic HR plans.

Chesterfield is also able to come beside either business owners or their staff for personal and professional development.

Marketing

We can help you with:

• developing your brand
• promoting your business
• developing pricing strategies
• developing logos, websites and corporate livery

Business Tools

Chesterfield Group professionals are available to partner with business in achieving their strategic objectives. In particular, Chesterfield Group offers:

• Business performance analysis
• Creditor management
• Certificate IV in business coaching
• Mortgage broking

Financial Planning

Chesterfield understands the need for good sound advice in financial planning so we leave it to the experts. We are able to recommend an expert or two should the need arise.