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Specialist accounting, tax, and advisory services for construction and property professionals.
Identify which products, categories, and operations are generating profit and uncover opportunities to improve margins and efficiency.
Improve stock management, increase inventory turnover, and reduce working capital tied up in raw materials and finished goods.
Make confident decisions around expansion, new product lines, equipment purchases, and increasing production capacity.
Stay compliant with expert management of financial statements, tax returns, BAS, payroll, STP reporting, superannuation, payroll tax, FBT, and tax planning.
Financial statements, tax returns, BAS, payroll reporting, STP, payroll tax, FBT, QBCC MFR reporting, and superannuation.
Preparation and lodgement of Fringe Benefits Tax returns where required.
There are typically three levers: pricing, product mix, and cost management. Pricing is often the last thing manufacturers and wholesalers want to touch, but it’s frequently the most effective – particularly for businesses that haven’t reviewed pricing in 12–18 months while input costs have climbed. Product mix analysis identifies which lines are generating margin and which are absorbing overhead without contributing to profit. On the cost side, we look at waste, labour efficiency, and supplier arrangements. Usually the opportunity exists across all three.
The right level balances service levels against the cash cost of holding stock. For manufacturers, this means understanding minimum batch sizes, lead times, and production scheduling. For wholesalers and distributors, it’s about matching stock levels to actual demand patterns. Excess inventory is one of the most common cash flow drains in this sector – money sitting on shelves that isn’t generating any return.
For capital-intensive businesses, this comes down to the cost of finance versus the return the equipment generates and the opportunity cost of the cash. Financing preserves working capital and can be structured to align repayments with the revenue the equipment produces. There are also depreciation and tax implications that vary depending on the ownership structure and timing of the purchase.
Gross margin by product or product category, inventory turnover, debtor days, creditor days, labour cost as a percentage of revenue, and operating cash flow. Together these give you a picture of both profitability and liquidity – and they’ll surface issues well before they show up in your annual accounts.