Assurance

In Assurance, we give confidence and insight to our clients and the community by working with our clients to build their prosperity using our deep industry knowledge and specialist technical skills.

Financial Assurance
We provide our clients with independent assurance of their compliance with regulatory and other reporting requirements through the provision of audit services.

Enterprise Growth
Our assurance team provides a wide spectrum of organisations with comprehensive, integrated business advisory and mentoring services designed to help them deal with all of the issues they face. The client base ranges from start-up companies to well established medium sized companies.

Business Assurance Services
We provide assurance and advice regarding the effectiveness of key business processes, including control activities to our clients’ management, board, and third-party stakeholders.

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Directors Responsibilities
The need for directors and executives to understand fully their duties and responsibilities may seem obvious. However, evidence brought before our Courts continues to highlight that many are not aware of the duties and responsibilities their position carries.

Cash is King
Media hype and some genuine areas of our business community have indicated that there may be economic downturn. It is important to ensure that your business remains liquid and has plenty of cash available to avoid any setbacks. It is also important to remember that being profitable does not necessarily mean being liquid. A business can fail because of a shortage of cash, even while profitable. The following solutions will help you free up as much cash as possible during this time.

Fringe Benefit Tax Warrant of Fitness
There have been major changes to the Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) rules in recent years that all employers need to be fully aware of. These changes have increased the complexity of the FBT system such that preparing and filing an FBT return has become a more complex exercise.

Managing the Stages of Business Growth
This simple diagnostic chart can help you locate your company on the growth curve so you can identify and then address potential business pitfalls that may be lurking just ahead.The chart will direct your attention to issues such as cash management, asset management, marketing, organisational behaviour, management reporting and information systems / internet solutions.

Goods and Services Tax Warrant of Fitness
The shortfall penalties and use of money interest regimes came into effect in 1996. Since then it has been our experience that taxpayers who have Goods and Services Tax (GST) errors are incurring a significant penalty and interest exposure and, even where the Inland Revenue Department’s efforts to impose penalties are successfully rebutted, a significant amount of management and professional advisor time cost is incurred. The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) addresses the penalty issue in every situation where there is a shortfall, and even in circumstances where errors result in GST being overpaid by the taxpayer, there is often difficulty in obtaining redress.

Clever Companies: Clever Company Check-up
The principles of sound business management are always relevant, regardless of whether the economy is growing or in recession. However, the need for improvement or change is usually only highlighted when adverse factors impact on business performance. The world-wide economic slowdown, high domestic interest rates and a strong New Zealand dollar have focused media attention on an ‘impending’ market downturn. The extent of this downturn in the short to medium term is unknown.

Value of Financial Statement Analysis
Most business owners and managers receive annual and monthly financial statements, yet we find financial statement analysis is often overlooked or not carried out on a systematic basis so as to obtain timely insight into the financial performance of the business.

Facing an audit by the Inland Revenue Department
The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) will often undertake an audit to examine your financial affairs, check you have paid the correct amount of tax, and determine that you are complying with the tax laws. So, what can you do to ensure an IRD audit goes smoothly? The following notes provide practical advice on the handling of income tax investigations and audits administered by the IRD.