Douglas & Harrison

We make your business our business

Welcome to Douglas & Harrison – Chartered Accountants

It’s about you & us
You have a vision of where you want your business to be. Douglas & Harrison are here to help you get there.

As one of Melbourne’s leading Chartered Accountants we provide a range of services.

Our mission is to take a holistic approach, ensuring we understand your business and personal goals.

We form priorities to empower you to make the right financial decisions.

Douglas & Harrison – building strong businesses since 1975.

Our Specialties

accounting & business advice

taxation planning & preparation

auditing & due diligence

corporate advisory & cloud accounting

superannuation & smsf

management consulting & valuations

Accounting & Business Advice

Accounting

Timely, accurate and understandable financial statements are necessary to gauge how well your business has performed and to assess the strength of its financial position. They are the foundation upon which you make important business decisions.

Our compliance teams can efficiently and effectively compile your data. Where your business affairs are more complex we can redesign your accounts to provide divisional and other cost centre reporting.

Business Advice

Our informed advice on business management comes from a wealth of personal experience: the founding owner Kevin Harrison has 40 years of experience in managing client’s successful businesses.

Today our team boasts a number of professionals who regularly update their skills to be at the forefront of business management and development. We believe that focusing purely on tax is short sighted.

Achieving wealth and financial stability requires looking at the bigger picture for you and your business.

Taxation Planning & Preparation

Taxation planning and preparation

We are committed to building and maintaining a close working relationship with you. We recognize that each tax or other financial issue is different and requires timely and practical advice which best meets your needs.

Our proactive planning ensures you understand the tax consequences of business decisions; keeps you abreast of taxation developments as they affect your business; and identifies areas for potential savings across direct and indirect taxes to minimise your business and personal tax.

Auditing & Due Diligence

Auditing

We offer a complete auditing process, which not only meets the requirements of your audit compliance, but provides insights to your organisation’s internal controls and performance, as well as paths that can be taken to enhance and improve operations.

Due diligence

Buying or investing in any business presents a risk, but this can be mitigated through a thorough approach to due diligence services. Our due diligence service focuses on the most critical elements of transactions to help you identify and manage transaction risks and set up the right corporate structure for an acquisition.

We work with you and your legal advisors to ensure you develop a full understanding of what you’re buying, including contractual matters, warranties and indemnities, and purchase price adjustments.

Corporate Advisory & Cloud Accounting

Corporate Advisory

Exploring the myriad ways in which people, strategy, operations, and process improvement will help shape the future of organisations, our team has a deep interest in business and talent trends and will advise solutions to your most complex issues.

Leveraging research, analytics and industry insights to create value for you whatever your stage of the business cycle – we deliver value-added services to improve your business performance and help you achieve your objectives.

Cloud accounting

Cloud accounting or online accounting is the way forward for the modern business.  It offers: an access-anywhere capability; your data is stored in the cloud rather than on a local drive (giving you the ability for real time data); no backups; and improved collaboration with your team, bookkeeper and accountant.

Our staff are accredited in a number of cloud accounting software packages, so the choice is yours.  We invite you to contact our staff to discuss your software needs and obtain practical advice on the best option for your business.

Superannuation & SMSF

Superannuation

Several of our Directors are Authorised Representatives of the SMSF Advisers Network Pty Ltd.

This authorisation allows Douglas & Harrison Pty Ltd to give advice on Self Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF) including: recommending establishing an SMSF, additional contributions, consolidation of your superannuation assets into a single fund, and commencement of your superannuation pension.

Management Consulting & Valuations

Management consulting

Exploring the myriad ways in which people, strategy, operations, and process improvement will help shape the future of organisations, our team has a deep interest in business and talent trends and will advise solutions to your most complex issues.

Leveraging research, analytics and industry insights to create value for you whatever your stage of the business cycle – we deliver value-added services to improve your business performance and help you achieve your objectives.

Valuations

Valuations are not just about the numbers — there are commercial, legal and technical issues that may need to be considered and understood in the process. We provide technically robust, commercially focused independent valuations to meet your specific needs, with clear, credible and transparent reports.

Our team combines professional experience, industry knowledge, sound judgement, good financial analysis, a comprehensive understanding of market risk and appropriate methodologies.