Two streams of work. One practice.
Crisis advisory for Indigenous businesses navigating financial distress. Compliance and strategy for Aboriginal corporations and grant-funded NFPs. Same team, same standards – different starting points.
Which best describes your situation?
I'm carrying business stress that needs to come off the table.
ATO debt, lodgement backlogs, an ORIC notice, or a feeling the numbers stopped making sense. You need stabilisation before anything else.
I run a community-controlled organisation or Aboriginal corporation.
CATSI Act obligations, ORIC reporting, NFP audits, grant acquittals, multi-year financial planning. You need a specialist, not a generalist.
I'm not sure where I fit, but I'd like to talk.
The first conversation is free, and exists exactly for this. If we're not the right firm, we'll tell you and where possible point you somewhere better.
Crisis advisory and stabilisation.
Forensic accounting, debt-relief pathways, ATO negotiation, and the reconstruction of records that have broken down. The work that keeps Indigenous businesses alive.
- 01Small Business Restructuring (SBR) support
Where eligible, SBR is the most powerful debt-relief mechanism available. Our SROI study attributed an average $104,000 in ATO debt reduction per client through this pathway.
- 02ATO negotiation and remediation
Direct engagement with the ATO on behalf of clients – payment plans, remission applications, dispute resolution. Preventing avoidable debt escalation.
- 03Forensic accounting and lodgement remediation
Where records have broken down, we reconstruct what's needed to bring lodgements current and get the business back into compliance.
- 04Crisis triage and risk reduction
Stabilising immediate obligations while the broader picture is worked out. The crisis stops getting worse first; the strategy comes after.
How we engage on crisis work. The work is intensive, and the businesses needing it are often least able to pay. Where capacity to pay is limited, eligible clients can access stabilisation support through the Indigenous Business Resilience Fund administered by Together Academy. Same pathway, different funding source.
Compliance and strategy for Aboriginal corporations and grant-funded NFPs.
End-to-end work for community-controlled organisations, CATSI-registered Aboriginal corporations and grant-funded NFPs. Compliance work and strategic financial advisory in the same practice.
CATSI Act compliance & ORIC reporting
Annual returns, board reporting, governance support. Where reporting is overdue, we get it current – without judgement about how it got there.
NFP audit preparation
Compilation of financial statements to audit-ready standard. We work alongside the auditor, not against them.
Grant acquittal & program reporting
Aligning the financial reporting cycle to grant and program cycles, which rarely sit cleanly against the financial year.
Strategic financial advisory
Multi-year financial planning for organisations with structurally complex funding. Cash flow modelling, reserves policy, capacity planning.
ACNC registration & structuring
For new organisations, and for hybrid for-profit / not-for-profit structures that need both halves to work together.
Board-ready financial reporting
Reports your board can read without an accountant explaining them. Plain numbers, plain language, the right level of detail.
What working together looks like.
Most engagements run on a roughly similar shape, whether the entry point is crisis or steady-state. The intensity changes; the pattern doesn't.
A free conversation about fit
Twenty to thirty minutes. We ask about your situation, what's going on, what you want to change. If we're not the right firm, we say so – and where possible point you to someone better.
Engagement letter and triage
Scope, pricing and responsibilities documented before any work begins. If there's a crisis, triage starts in the first week. If not, we plan the first reporting cycle together.
The work, done properly
Compliance, advisory or crisis stabilisation as your situation requires. Regular check-ins, plain-language updates, no surprises. You learn what we're doing, not just receive the outcome.
A long-term relationship
Most of our clients have been with us for more than two years. The shape of the work shifts as your situation changes – crisis once, capability for a while, then growth or steady-state advisory.
Every engagement is scoped and quoted before work begins.
We don't publish a price list because the work doesn't sit on one. The crisis stabilisation of a regional cafe and the multi-year financial advisory of a $20M community-controlled organisation are different engagements, and they're priced differently.
What is consistent: scope and pricing are agreed in writing before we start. Where capacity to pay is the binding constraint and the situation qualifies, the Indigenous Business Resilience Fund is the mechanism that closes the gap.