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Master your performance.

Chartered Accounting,
Management &
HR Consulting

Improve your performance. Realise your potential.

We believe everyone can improve performance and realise their potential by making wise decisions.

Delivering professional Chartered Accounting, Management & HR services across 10k Consulting is able to provide advice and solutions tailored perfectly to your needs.

Our Services

Tax Consulting

ATO Compliance

Tax Planning

Management Accounting

Business Strategy and Change

Business and Leadership Coaching

Tax Consulting

We seek to provide our clients with up to date commercial tax advice that is presented in simple terms in addition to keeping their compliance obligations up to date.

Our services include:

Tax return preparation for individuals, partnerships, trusts and companies
Restructuring tax advice in respect to acquisitions and disposals including consideration of income tax, capital gains tax and stamp duty
Advise on the appropriate structures to carry on a business having regard to both asset protection and taxation considerations
Fringe benefits tax including salary packaging advice
Cross boarder taxation advice for inbound and outbound expatriates

ATO Compliance

We are experienced with all types of tax structures, including trusts, companies, partnerships and sole traders.

We will take care of all your ATO obligations and notify you of required actions and payments.

By engaging us to look after your tax compliance, you can be sure we will:

Make sure all your entities comply with all the relevant legislation
Manage your lodgement obligations with the ATO
Negotiate payment arrangements with the ATO for tax debts
Negotiate remission of interest charged on tax debts
Keep you informed on legislative changes that affect you

Tax Planning

Tax Planning is a process delivered around the end of the financial year. It is a process which applies specific strategies to successfully maximise your cash flow.

We start by reviewing the financial position and performance of your business so far for the current year and then projecting your likely upcoming profit and tax obligations.

Don’t let your business suffer huge unexpected blows at tax time. We’ve seen good business fail due to a lack of planning for tax payments. Plan for and minimise your tax liabilities with our Tax Planning service.

Management Accounting
(for Small Business)

Don’t have the resources to employ an internal Finance person? 10k Consulting has years of experience providing small businesses with the internal management accounting function.

Small businesses live and die by their reporting and their ability to manage their cashflow. At 10k Consulting we understand those needs and have developed a strong capability around creating, processing and analysing targeted performance reporting.

We can provide you with the week in week out management accounting services such as:

MYOB / Xero management
Periodic performance reporting
Preparation of special purpose and general purpose financial statements
Financial modelling and ratio analysis
Bookkeeping support and assistance
Maintaining asset registers

Business Strategy and Change

The art of effectively leading and managing change is essential in remaining competitive in fast moving markets.

Having alignment between Strategy and your Operational and Human Resources plans is critical to ensuring your business is effective and efficient.

10k Consulting has the expertise to support your managers and leaders to:

Define mission, vision and values for your organisation and / or teams
Plan and implement business change initiatives
Develop Operational and Human Resource plans
Transform business performance through workforce redesign
Improve productivity through more effective alignment of performance measurement and reporting with business strategy

Business and Leadership Coaching

Placing Wise Decisions at the centre of all our programs, we provide participants with the opportunity to explore how they can develop their “Personal Leadership” in order to be effective people leaders.

Our coaching approach is designed to provide tailored experiences to each individual. The content, structure and coaching support ensures each participant is best positioned to transition knowledge into action.

We provide themed coaching programs along with situational coaching support. Situational coaching is goal driven and focus of conversations are determined by the participant. Our themed sessions cover set topics each week and run for 6 sessions.

Themed coaching programs (6 sessions):

Wise Decision Maker – be a great decision maker and team contributor
Change Leader – develop resilience, increase agility and inspire others to act
Performance Leader – focus on the things that matter, lift productivity, improve customer experience, and achieve results
Strategic Leader – create the frameworks for the future that will define strategy, create the performance mindset, and deliver the results

Note: the themed sessions are able to be adapted to be run with small groups as well.

About 10k Consulting
Meet the Team

We are a Chartered Accounting, Management & HR Consulting practice.

Our practice is focused on supporting small and medium sized businesses to grow, change and prosper.

We are small business owners ourselves; so we have a level of empathy with our clients that differentiate us from other consulting practices.

We have corporate and consulting experience working with clients from numerous industries including Health, Education, Retail, Mining, Construction, Energy, Transport and Logistics; across the commercial, non-profit and government sectors.

Our team is able to develop bespoke solutions that meet our client’s specific Accessing professional capability across Chartered Accounting, Management & HR needs.

We often get asked why are we called 10k.

Well, the answer is that we were inspired by the well-known author Malcolm Gladwell and his renowned concept of 10,000 hours required to MASTER something you are passionate about.

We believe all performance can be improved by making wise decisions. Mastering your decision making give you and or your business the opportunity to master your environment and continually perform.

Our team has dedicated well over 10,000 hours to the areas we consult in.

We are eager to share our knowledge and expertise with other individuals, groups and organizations, helping them to master their performance.

Damien Colbert
Practice Owner – Principal Consultant

At 10k Consulting Damien Colbert has created a firm that is focused on supporting individuals, to make wise decisions in order to master their performance.

Throughout his career Damien has worked with Managers and Executive teams assisting them to align employee performance with customer needs. Damien has gained a wide range of experiences working across commercial, nonprofit and government sectors. Successfully designing and delivering an array of solutions for managers across industries such as Energy, Engineering, Professional Services (IT), Transport and Logistics, Health Care and Retail.

Damien is a seasoned leader of teams and workforces having filled specialist and executive management roles before starting 10k Consulting. He has translated his experiences from a career with large and medium sized organisations into the development of pragmatic solutions that focus on wise decisions. Damien’s drive to continually improve business performance is framed through the lens of effective engagement of people with the goals of the business.

Lyndal Colbert
Practice Owner and Chartered Accountant

Lyndal is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years experience supporting clients with their accounting and tax needs. Lyndal has worked with numerous clients in a variety of industries including medical, IT, manufacturing and agriculture – both from a tax compliance perspective (Income Tax and GST), as well as accounting reporting and efficiency.

Lyndal’s focus with clients at 10k Consulting is to ensure they have the right information and support they need to run their business. Lyndal has extensive knowledge in various accounting software programs (including Xero and MYOB), and can assist clients to input and export quality information from their accounting system. In addition, Lyndal works with clients to make certain that all facets of tax compliance are met, including income tax returns and activity statements.