Webinars

With the 𝗔𝗧𝗢 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 this financial year, especially in the 𝗦𝗠𝗘 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁, our webinar will zero in on this topic to help you better understand and mitigate risks associated with your client's ATO debts.

As the press also highlighted that 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟰𝟬% 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝘂𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗠𝗘’𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁, we discuss what this means for your Mum & Dad Clients. We will share practical care-based strategies that we as advisors can implement to better manage this for our clients.

This month webinar will focus on assisting businesses that are stuck and can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel; they continue to hold on simply because they aren’t aware of any other options. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀.

With the recent change of financial year, this would be a great time to look back at the last 6 months and look at the impact of the range of current pressures on businesses.

We will work through a number of case studies and explore the impact of both good and bad decisions made by directors as they try and navigate through this difficult period.

In this month’s webinar, Ashley Shield will be sharing the good, the bad and the ugly of small business restructures (SBRs). In particular, Ashley will focus on the latest insights and learning from the increasing use of this strategy in the market and what this experience is teaching everyone about how this approach can be best used.

As advisors to business owners, you are at the front line of dealing with difficult issues for your clients where negotiations are critical.

During our May webinar, Ashley will be joined by Nicole Davidson from Nicole Davidson Negotiation.

Nicole was awarded The Australian Law Awards Mediator/Arbitrator of the Year in 2022. Nicole is a renowned trainer and mediator who will provide some great insights into how you can guide your clients during a dispute.

No matter whether disputes are related to finances, personnel or supply, understanding all potential options is key. This session will not only cover what options are available for your clients but will also provide insights to help you deal with any staff or client issues you may face.

In this month’s webinar, Ashley Shield will be providing an update on what we are seeing of the ATO’s debt recovery plan in action including their current enforcement methods including DPN’s, Garnishee Notices and Wind-up Proceedings & what you and your clients need to know.

Our team even have some useful insights and advice about how your clients can stay ahead of any potential action and gain extra time to take action when needed. By popular demand, this year we return to running two monthly webinar sessions 10am (QLD) & 1pm (QLD) as well as having the recording available for anyone who wants to stay updated but cannot attend either session.

Our first webinar for 2024 on Thursday 22 February 2024 featured the annual conversation between the dynamic duo, Ashley Shield and Hank de Jonge, focusing on what we can expect for the year ahead, lessons learnt over the last year as well as some interesting recent case studies.

We all know the old riddle
“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”


While the team at de Jonge Read provide strategies and improved outcomes for any size business, our upcoming November webinar focuses on several of the larger matters (elephants if you will) that we have helped our clients through in recent times.

This will include client examples such as an international company with multiple jurisdictions, who unfortunately lost their legal case after years in the courts. Another is a large restaurant chain with over 15 companies affected by the pandemic, where de Jonge Read’s strategy used a little-known tool (a joint VA and DOCA) to manage the costs and bring the group of 15 companies through to continue trading.

Ashley Shield will be joined by Corey Cole from our Victorian office. Corey is a CA who has more than 20 years experience in advising and managing all types of formal and informal personal and corporate insolvency administrations and turnaround engagements. Our discussions on this webinar will include how de Jonge Read’s advice and expertise can help any sized client to achieve better outcomes, irrespective of the size of their balance sheet or business.

Have you ever spoken with a potential new client seeking advice on a sticky situation and wondered whatever happened to them???
Perhaps you provided some free advice but for some reason or other, the client decided to take a different path.
At de Jonge Read, we face this scenario infrequently. This is because we tend to hear again from many of those clients when the proverbial hits the fan. You know the type, people desperate for a solution who gratefully accept our free consulting advice before falling under the spell of slick, online promises of less scrupulous advisors.

They choose their approach sometimes based on initial fee quotes without really recognising the value of the relatively modest investment in our representation and guidance. Unfortunately, this lesson can be an expensive one for these clients and they return to us seeking help, often in an even worse position having unnecessarily cost themselves many thousands of dollars by not engaging de Jonge Read in the first instance.
These aren’t “we told you so” moments – instead we focus on how we can help these clients get out of their even stickier situations – some we can salvage, for others the hole is too deep.

This month, our experienced Strategist Terry Finn will be joining Ashley Shield to share some client scenarios and highlight how much the investment in proper representation can mean for our clients in a practical sense, to their livelihoods and their financial futures.

In this month’s webinar, Ashley will be joined by Darren Addison, one of de Jonge Read’s experienced strategists whose extensive business banking experience has proven an invaluable resource for many of our firm’s clients.

American psychologist, Abraham Maslow, had a favourite saying along the lines of
“When all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”
This saying has come to be known since as the Law of the Instrument. What he meant was, when it comes to problem-solving, we tend to get locked into using familiar tools in expected ways.

de Jonge Read tend to take the opposite approach and in our next webinar, Darren and Ashley will explain why and how we do this. They will be discussing the relative merits of different insolvency strategies and interventions and why one may be favoured over another because of the specific circumstances an individual client finds themselves in.

ATO Commissioner Chris Jordan warned this week that small business owed more than its share of collectable debt and that a rising number of profitable businesses with the capacity to pay were choosing not to. Jordan was “unapologetic” about the ATO’s tougher stance on collectable debt so we know to expect further increases in ATO collection activity.

If you are looking for ways to ensure that your client has access to the best possible tools and strategies for their specific circumstances, we welcome you to join us for what will be a robust and enlightening webinar.