Two Drunk Accountants

This week we tackle tax avoidance and part IVa, particularly how it relates to your entity selection or restructure. We are joined by Adrian Bailey the principal at Cleary Hoare lawyers to discuss structuring and whether you are accidentally falling into tax avoidance by choosing a particular structure?  Cleary Hoare:  https://www.clearyhoare.com.au/ Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.you...

This week Tim and Dan discuss their top 5 complications with discretionary trusts that might not make it as attractive!  Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email: twodrunkpodcast@gmail.com

This week Tim chat with Brendan Roberts founder of Aider and current GM about all things AI and what the future will bring.  Sponsor Offers:   Here Brendan Roberts: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/brendanproberts Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email: twodrunkpodcast@gmail.com

Continuing our series on trusts we discuss if a trust is right for your business and the pros and the cons!  Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email: twodrunkpodcast@gmail.com

Join Tim Garth and Heather Smith as they attempt to unpack what they learned at the Accounting Business Expo—somewhere between the coffee, the chaos, and possibly a wine or two. They’ll chat about the latest AI tech (that we’re all definitely pretending to fully understand), how it’s shaking up the accounting world, and what it might mean for your business… depending on how brave you’re feeling. E...

This week we chat with Organisational Psychologist Dr. Sarah Cotton from Transitioning Well to chat about the causes and what you can do about poor mental health of small business owners. This comes off the back of the report on the wellbeing of small business owners released by Xero during the week. 

We continue our redo series on entity structures (the restructure if you will) and this week we tackle the humble company. What is it, why would you choose it and how does it work? All answered on this weeks episode of the podcast.  Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccount...

In the next episode on our series on entity structuring for your business we discuss the partnership. Find out why its not our go to in most cases!  Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email: twodrunkpodcast@gmail.com

If you manufacture or hold stock then this week is for you! This week we are joined by Greg Roughan Head of Content and Jarrod Adam Head of product at Unleashed Software to discuss their latest release of the Manufacturing Health Index Report. We discuss what are the trends in the industry including gross profit margins, leads times and how much stock are people holding? We also dive into common m...

It's been 7 years since we recorded our first ever episodes on entity structures and a lot has changed since then. So beginning this week we are redoing our series on the various entity structures you might consider for your new business! This week starting with sole traders!   Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrun...

Repeat episode this week!   This week its Halloween! So we discuss the top 5 scariest taxes that might sneak up on your this halloween! 

The time has come, someone was finally brave enough to show us their books. Live in this episode we analyse the books of Stone Pine Distillery and call a special guest to see if we get our assumptions right!    Stone Pine Distillery: https://www.stonepinedistillery.com.au/home Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunk...

This week we tackle another niche tax issue! If you make input taxed supplies - residential rent, financial supplies like dividends or credit - can you claim the GST on the expenses?  The answer is mostly no but sometimes yes!    Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountant...

This week Tim and Dan dive into the tricky world of owning property while your tax residency changes, you might owe more tax then you think...or none at all! I really depends.    Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email: twodrunkpodcast@gmail.com

It's the new year and we thoughts why not dissect some financials while you enjoy your holidays! Can Dan guess who these financials are? Would he buy this business? Find out now!  Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email: twodrunkpodcast@gmail.com

It's Christmas time and of course of the Two Drunk Accountants that means the Drunkies! That's right who will win the small business and accounting communities most prestigious awards! Listen now to find out!    Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email: tw...

This week Tim and Dan go through some interesting data recently released by the ABS (the Bureau) and what they mean for you business!    Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email: twodrunkpodcast@gmail.com

The podfather returns! John Munden and Dilnar Tangri from Cloudoffis join us to discuss why you are getting fatigue from the ever growing list of apps in your tech stack, how AI is leading to growing expectations from your software and how this relates to your business and your clients!  Sponsor Offers:   Here Cloudoffis: https://cloudoffis.com.au/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccount...

Greatest friend of the podcast Heather Smith joins Dan to discuss 5 things we each have on our mind. We talk about our podcast network, we discuss the best new apps for small business and accountants, we discuss what we think about auto-reconciliation and we discuss guests we would love on the show!    Sponsor Offers:   Here Heather Smith: https://au.linkedin.com/in/heathersmithau Accounting Apps...

This week Tim and Dan are joined by their partner in mortgages Nick Ware from Mortgage Choice Wyong to discuss the reasons you might want to consider refinancing that isn't just a lower interest rate. Dan also reveals part 1 of his revenge on rat gate.    Sponsor Offers:   Here Nick Ware: nicholas.ware@mortgagechoice.com.au Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://w...

Can you claim your rent (or mortgage) as a tax deduction? The answer could be yes! But also no. Plus Dan surprises Tim with big news!    Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email: twodrunkpodcast@gmail.com

Book nuggets is back and this time we tackle Traction by Gino Wickman. Do you feel like you are struggling to hit the ground running with progress in your business? Well this book aims to solve that. We also discuss another new housing policy idea Dan has!  Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website...

This week we are joined by Steve Hui Australia's #1 Points travel expert to talk all things points! Where to get them, are they worth it? Where to spend them? Find out on this episode!  Links: Steve Hui: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stevenhui Pay.com.au: https://pay.com.au/ Sponsor Offers:   Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccou...

This week Tim and Dan discuss the governments updates to the superannuation....again. We also discuss what big companies aren't and are paying tax.    Links: Sponsor Notes:   https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au/podcountant-network/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email: twodru...

No episode this week as we take a quick break. Instead we update you on all of the exciting things coming up in the next 2 months!