Increase your business’s viability and value

MPA Business Associates, which are accountants, are able to service a wide range of accounting needs, whether a client is looking to trade outside their local market for the first time or they already have a successful international business. The framework provided by the association, enables MPA Business Associates to deliver accountancy services in a coordinated and consistent manner. In the ever-changing economic climate, we can enhance your business performance and increase your profits by:

• Designing appropriate structures (start-ups and restructures).
• Evaluating the impact of business strategies on cashflow, profitability and security.
• Offering expert advice on buying and selling businesses.
• Preparing exit, transition and succession plans.
• Panaging budget and cashflow and preparing profit projections.
• Providing business valuations.
• Pssisting with capital and finance applications.
• Preparing grants and business incentives reviews.

Are you meeting all your statutory obligations?

Keeping up with new legislation and the ever-changing taxation and superannuation landscape can be a daunting task. We can help you by:

• Planning your taxation.
• Advising you on your superannuation obligations.
• Preparing required financial reports.
• Preparing monthly accounts.
• Preparing margin and ratio analyses.

Staying ahead of your competitors

No matter how long you have been operating, a health check of your business can help identify opportunities for growth as well as alert you to potential problems. The financial and organizational health check offered by MPA Business Associates will:

• Assess the viability of your business.
• Measure your performance and identify opportunities for growth.

Our accounting services are geared towards addressing five key areas:

• Increase your business’s viability and value.
• Statutory obligations.
• Staying ahead of your competitors.
• Localization of International Firms.
• Benchmark your business against others in your industry.

Being accountants, MPA Business Associates are able to service a wide range of accounting needs, whether a client is looking to trade outside their local market for the first time, or they already have a successful international business. The framework provided by the association enables MPA Business Associates to deliver accountancy services in a coordinated and consistent manner.

Dealing with accounting issues even in a client’s country of origin can be frustrating enough, but when operating outside of their own domestic market, lack of local knowledge can prove to be a real headache. MPA Business Associates can help bridge that gap to international organizations with local branches by providing the day-to-day accountancy services that will make the international business run smoothly. Those accounting services include:

• Book-keeping.
• Management accounts.
• Accounts outsourcing.
• Budgeting and forecasts.
• Reporting on accounting systems and internal controls.
• Payroll.
• Financial reviews.
• Company secretarial services.
• Tax returns.

MPA Business Associates will provide you and your stakeholders confidence in the presented numbers. Our experienced audit team will first discuss your needs and explain legislative requirements. We then deliver a well-planned, executed and communicated audit.

Using the latest risk-based audit methodology and software, we offer efficient and cost-effective audit and assurance services including:

• Preparing financial statement audits (positive opinion).
• Preparing financial statement reviews (negative opinion).
• Formulating agreed-upon procedures.
• Providing compliance opinions.
• Reviewing your internal control environment.
• Reviewing your corporate governance.
• Managing enterprise risk.
• Investigating fraud (forensic accounting).
• Assessing due diligence.
• Providing probity reviews.

MPA Business Associates is able to deliver internationally coordinated audit services on a multinational level. As a result, clients benefit from a tailored approach to suit their specific requirements and complexity of their individual organizations.

Our ability to deliver quality audit work is rooted in our knowledge of the relevant international and national legislative and regulatory requirements combined with our innate local and cultural understanding.

Statutory Audits - i. Audits

Aside from complying with regulatory demands, these independent reviews provide clients with insight on effective financial reporting and control mechanisms to enhance their business performance.

Statutory Due Diligence

This enables clients to assess, manage and mitigate the risks involved with setting up and trading internationally either in their own right or in a joint venture or other arrangements.

Specialist Audits

These provide clients with sector-based insight on a wide range of vertical markets including charities, pension funds, financial services, public sector and banks.

Audit Clients

These include national and international organizations with a keen focus on mid-sized corporates as well as public and voluntary sector organizations.

• Reviewing board and sub-committee charters.
• Reviewing strategic/corporate planning processes.
• Assessing board/sub-committee performance including fitness/proper assessments for individual directors.
• Assessing board control including delegations and policy setting.
• Preparing independent performance audits/evaluations of specific activities.
• Managing of conflicts of interest.
• Assessing or implementing fraud control strategies.
• Assessing complaints about management processes.
• Investigating allegations and complaints.

• Assessing corporate culture to risk management and risk maturity assessments.
• Reviewing risk management frameworks/policies.
• Facilitating risk identification and assessment workshops.
• Reviewing risk management treatments for effectiveness.
• Reviewing risk management reporting system.

• Reviewing board and sub-committee charters.
• Reviewing strategic/corporate planning processes.
• Assessing board/sub-committee performance including fitness/proper assessments for individual directors.
• Assessing board control including delegations and policy setting.
• Preparing independent performance audits/evaluations of specific activities.
• Managing of conflicts of interest.
• Assessing or implementing fraud control strategies.
• Assessing complaints about management processes.
• Investigating allegations and complaints.

• Reviewing board and sub-committee charters.
• Reviewing strategic/corporate planning processes.
• Assessing board/sub-committee performance including fitness/proper assessments for individual directors.
• Assessing board control including delegations and policy setting.
• Preparing independent performance audits/evaluations of specific activities.
• Managing of conflicts of interest.
• Assessing or implementing fraud control strategies.
• Assessing complaints about management processes.
• Investigating allegations and complaints.

I. Strategy advice to set you on the fast track.

We can help you re-engineer and transform business processes for a leaner, more efficient operating model by:

• Collecting current state data (including staff employed in tasks, volumes/output produced and timeframes/key performance indicators).
• Process mapping key tasks.
• Reviewing your process architecture and operating models.
• Analyzing your current ‘as-is’ processes.
• Capturing and reviewing opportunities for improvement and assessing their potential benefits.
• Designing future state (‘to be’) operating models (including governance), processes, procedures and organization structures.
• Implementation the future-state operating models and processes.

II. Balancing governance and production.

We can ensure you are meeting your governance requirement by:

• Reviewing and advising on your corporate governance.
• Providing human resources and recruitment services.
• Advising on procurement processes.
• Preparing risk assessments.
• Preparing financial and data analysis and modelling.
• Managing your accounting services.
• Shared services design, implementation and operations.
• Collecting data and benchmarking your business.
• Providing project management services.

MPA Business Associates’ tax consulting team has skills and experience in all areas of state taxation to ensure you obtain the best tax outcomes. Let MPA business Associates’ tax consulting specialists help to ensure that both you and your business are not paying any more tax than is necessary, while at the same time in minimizing and appropriately managing your tax risk. Our tax consulting services include:

• Providing practical advice and assistance with respect to all taxes including income tax, Payroll Tax, Land Tax, Stamp Duty, Customs Duty and Excise.
• Providing advice on the appropriate business structure whether in the country or overseas.
• Reviewing and restructuring your business to achieve better tax outcomes now and in the future.
• Advising on business acquisitions and disposals including undertaking tax due diligence.
• Assisting with TRA audits and reviews, objections, private ruling applications and dispute resolution.
• Providing executive remuneration services for domestic and overseas employees.
• Undertaking prudential reviews for income tax and payroll tax.

Everyone is different

We know that your goals and needs are unique. That’s why our specialist finance brokers will carefully assess your particular circumstances and devise the most cost-effective plan for you. Whether you want to grow your business or buy your first home, MPA Business Associates can research the most cost-effective option. We can help you find the best deal for:

• Commercial loans.
• Development and construction loans.
• Agribusiness loans.
• Residential and investment home loans.
• Motor vehicle and equipment finance.
• Lines of credit.
• Refinancing solutions.
• Low document loans.

MPA Business Associates can help you with all your finance and lending needs by:

• Preparing strategies and annual reviews.
• Providing financial consulting services and crisis management.
• Arranging import and trade finance.
• Managing buy-outs and buy-ins.
• Providing corporate secretarial services.
• Managing invoice financing.
• Arranging self-managed superannuation funds lending.

• Assessing control environments.
• Risk assessing and testing internal controls for business cycles such as payroll, expenditure, revenue, asset management.
• Assessing and testing general computer controls.
• Assessing and testing application computer controls.
• Assessing compliance with legislative or policy requirements.
• Managing fraud risk including advising on prevention, detection and prevention of fraud.

MPA Business Associates internal auditors give independent advice to reassure your Board are appropriately discharging their responsibilities. Internal auditing also provides evidence that your organization is being managed within the parameters set by the Board.

Internal auditing also provides evidence that the organization is being managed within the parameters set by the Board of Directors using a systematic and disciplined approach, our experienced internal auditors work with a wide range of clients including industry superannuation funds, companies and government organizations.

MPA Business Associates’ internal auditors give independent advice to reassure the Board of Directors and all the company’s stakeholders that the management is appropriately discharging its responsibilities.

Great businesses don’t succeed by accident. Building and developing a business Great businesses do not succeed by accident. Building and developing a business requires sound advice, planning, preparation, implementation and constant review of strategy for the business to succeed. At MPA Business Associates, we understand this and that is why we offer a comprehensive range of non-financial services that make a substantial difference to a firm’s success.

The sole reason we offer non-financial services is to ensure our customers get a one-stop solution for their business requirements. In a nutshell, our goal is:

• To modify and improve existing consulting services that we offer by adding more value to the customer and the society at large.
• o devise new services that will focus more on individual specific needs for the services they may require that will also give us flexibility on the services we offer.
• To expand employment and training more personnel, this will eventually lead to growth of our organization as a whole.

Our non-financial services include:

Business Strategy
• Company Strategy
• SWOT Analysis
• Strategic Business Review
• Strategy Planning, Implementation and Execution
Management & Organization
• Organizational Structure
• Business Process Re-engineering
• Coaching and Mediation
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Marketing & Sales
• Marketing Plans
• Market Research
• Advertising Strategies
Human Resources
• Recruiting (Creating a resource pool and choosing from the best)
• Induction
• Performance Evaluation based on KPIs
• Staff Empowerment through targeted training and exposure
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Information Technology
• Risk management review
• Implementation of best practices
• IT consulting
• E-Commerce
Business Recovery & Insolvency
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Advice on Profitability
• Working capital management
• Business restructuring
• Cost control
Brand Management
• Brand conceptualizing and creation
• Brand positioning
• Brand loyalty