Business Solutions & Growth – The A Firm: Your Trusted Gold Coast Accountants & Business Advisors

Start-Up Solutions

Headed up by our expert Business Growth and Strategic Analyst Annette Bedford, whose experience, expertise and pure passion in assisting SME’s has seen countless ‘life changing’ results for many of our clients. Ensuring that you have the correct structure set up for tax and legal purposes is essential. We have sound solutions backed up with practical help for managing the unique challenges of the start-up phase to the long term of the business life cycle.

Market Strategy

We assist you to understand your marketplace better, assess your competitors and set goals and strategies that can be regularly measured. Our Business Growth & Strategic Experts take a very active interest in our clients Businesses and love to assist you to look at the bigger picture of opportunity (so you reap the rewards!).

Whatever your industry, if you have got a great idea and the passion to follow it through, The A Firm can provide business and accounting solutions to help you succeed! We are there for you every step of the way!

Strategic Planning

Our clients love having the opportunity to take part in strategic planning sessions with us, as a practical and effective means of developing a business plan, articulating the vision and future direction of the business and managing the unique challenges of your business.

Business Growth Strategies

At The A Firm Financial Solutions Group, we have an established track record as expert business advisors providing strategic input and vision for you and your growing business. We have sound solutions backed up with practical help for managing the unique challenges of the start-up phase to the long term of the business life cycle. Our Business Growth & Strategic Experts take a very active interest in our clients Businesses to understand your ambitions and help you realise your full business potential. We have a thorough understanding of factors that govern growth and profitability and we assist our clients in optimising their businesses as they grow in size and complexity.

Your Success Is Our Passion

As your business starts to flourish, you will need the experience and advice of an accountant and professional support team who understands your ambitions and helps you realise your full business potential. We understand that to ensure successful business growth you need sound business practices, correct and timely management material and figures and careful financial controls to assist you with effective decision making.

As owners of our own business and with valuable experience across different industries, we are perfectly positioned to provide the independent advice and objectivity you might require. We assist you to understand your marketplace better, assess you competitors and set goals and strategies that can be regularly measured.

Strategic Planning

Financial Freedom

Is your business the best that it can be? How can you tell? Do you have a sneaking suspicion it should be doing better? A Successful Business that allows you to achieve Financial Freedom in 10 years? Our amazing team of Business and Financial Success Educators, love to look at the bright side and highlight the opportunities for financial freedom that exist within your business! What do You want out of the business? What are Your dreams and goals…..living on the beach front or travelling overseas 6 months of the year or just being with your family more?

We need to know your dreams before we do anything else. Once your dreams are laid out clearly, our expert strategic analysts then assess your business performance using our special Business’s Secret Weapon analysis report to learn exactly where your business is and what the potential of that business is.

Business's Secret Weapon

Our unique "Business's Secret Weapon" tool does a comparison of your business performance against the industry's top performers in your class by size and locality….and sometimes this can be a shock or welcome surprise, but either way we are there to provide support for you moving forward. It will allow you to become the top performing business in your industry simply by showing you where the problems are in your business and how to overcome them and the opportunities available to reach the apex of its performance. We take plenty of time to ask the right questions to get this analysis correct. . . we know it will be the best tool we could give you for seeing your business in a new light. Take a moment to think what you could do with such a competitive advantage. . .

The secrets it exposes are all you could ever want to know about your competition. . . and you don’t have to eavesdrop anymore. All the figures at your fingertips…..gross profits, net profits, cash backing, staff numbers, staff productivity, debtor collection days, return on investment, capital investment, liquidity, cashflow, work turnaround days and much much more.

Strategic Planning

Complete Business Solutions

Tailoring our advice ensures that our solutions fit your personal situation and business ambitions as well as delivering the best tax outcome and asset protection. Whatever your business needs - we have the solution for you!

- Start-up Solutions
- Structuring Advice & Setups
- Personalised Business Coaching
- Business Planning & Growth Strategies
- Debt Reduction, Increasing Net Profit
- Cashflow, Budgets & Forecasts
- Management Reporting Systems
- Bookkeeping & Management Accounting
- Software Training & Support
- Shareholder Agreements
- Tax Planning

We can also work with you to put together the best estate and tax plan for the long term including making sure all that extra profit you will be making does not go into the bottomless pit of the tax man. A plan that will ensure you pay only what is absolutely necessary to the tax man, and leaves the maximum in your fun, investment or savings buckets. Our tax experts are focused on keeping you and your business compliant yet work for you not the tax man. And as an added bonus you will hear from us constantly about the progress of the work, we will explain to you in everyday language what you should do to stay compliant with tax, GST, land tax, Workcover, employment laws and discuss all potential future tax savings options with you.

The A Firm can provide business and accounting solutions to help you succeed. We are there for you every step of the way!

Online Accounting

Xero is an online accounting system that enables small to medium sized businesses to collaborate with their team and accountants in real time. You can automatically import your bank statement data, you can reconcile your data simply and quickly, and most importantly you can have an accurate real time view of the health of your business.

If you are sick and tired of complicated old fashioned accounting systems then CLICK HERE to find out more about Xero and if it is right for you.

Strategic Planning

Meet Our Strategic Director

Annette Bedford

“I see it as a great privilege to help our clients build their business and assets whilst enjoying a balance lifestyle. I am so passionate about leading them, educating them and nurturing their growth, helping steer their ship in the right direction.``

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