Adviser hub
As a professional adviser, accountant, consultant, financial planner or lawyer, there are often issues you and your client need assistance with to achieve the best outcome for your client’s situation. Set out on this page are some of the key areas advisers often seek our assistance with for their clients.
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Training services
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CGW Structures
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Application forms
Fact sheets
- Business succession – outline of approach
- Comparison of companies limited by guarantee and incorporated associations in Queensland
- Private ancillary funds – outline of requirements
- Public ancillary funds – outline of requirements
- Private company shareholder agreements – issues for consideration
- Family constitutions – issues for consideration
- Selecting an appropriate business structure – what are the options?
- Enduring Powers of Attorney – appointing an attorney
- Enduring Powers of Attorney – responsibilities and duties of an attorney
- Testamentary trusts – features and operations
- What to consider
- Why it is more than just a Will
- Generational transfer trusts
- Joint ownership of property
- The role of executors and trustees
- Time to change your estate planning arrangements
- Should your Will include a testamentary trust?
- Limited recourse borrowing arrangements – permitted maintenance, repairs and improvements
- Self-managed superannuation funds and borrowing brochure
- Superannuation – death benefits and binding death benefit nominations
- Does your enduring power of attorney protect or expose your superannuation?
- Do your SMSF documents stand up to scrutiny?
- Self-managed superannuation funds – who should be trustee?
- Do I need a fixed or standard unit trust deed?
- Generational transfer trusts
- Negative gearing trusts – uses and strategy
- Trusts – different types of trust deeds
- Discretionary trusts – features and operations
- Unit trusts – features and operations
- Checklist for reviewing discretionary trust deeds – what provisions should you look out for?
- Discretionary trusts – who should be the trustee?
- Discretionary trusts – foreign duty and land tax surcharge
Adviser hub
Publications
Commission finds that it was unreasonable for an employer to require an employee to work a 40-hour week
13 February 2025
In a recent case, the Fair Work Commission has found that an employer’s requirement for an employee to work a 40-hour week was unreasonable and a contravention of the Fair Work Act.
Procedural pitfalls during termination process give rise to successful unfair dismissal claim
13 February 2025
A labour hire company has been ordered to pay over $20,000 in compensation following the unfair dismissal of an employee some 24 hours after a failed drug test and safety indiscretion.
Safety first – employee methamphetamine use outweighs procedure fairness
13 February 2025
The Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has upheld the dismissal of an employee, agreeing that the seriousness of a positive test result for methamphetamine outweighed the employer’s failure to follow policies and procedures.
