Dendra Accounting Group

Tax-focused accountants for Melbourne small businesses

Dendra Accounting Group is an accounting firm in Burwood East, Victoria, in Melbourne's east. It describes itself as multi-award winning and says Australian accounting industry experts have recognised it for consistently strong outcomes. Its clientele is made up largely of Melbourne businesses and contractors, and it concentrates on small and medium-sized firms. Its stated objective is to help clients minimise tax and maximise wealth.

Specialist areas

The firm lists a set of areas in which it says it is experienced:

• Strategies to protect assets and build wealth, including business structuring
• Tax for manufacturing and export businesses
• Access to government incentives and grants
• Negotiations with the Australian Taxation Office
• Recovery of interest and penalties from the ATO, even where they have already been paid

Its wider service list takes in accounting and taxation, business advice and planning, business performance management, finance solutions and cloud accounting, and the site offers online calculators and a client login area.

How the firm says it works

The firm says an accountant should be the most trusted, reliable and responsive adviser a business has. Communication is stressed: it aims to return calls promptly, and each year it holds a face-to-face meeting with every client to catch up on their main challenges. In its view this time lets it apply its expertise in ways that show up in the bottom line.

Team-based advice

Instead of assigning a client to a single accountant, Dendra says a team discusses and brainstorms each account, looking for every possible advantage. It says this team approach sets it apart from other Melbourne firms. It also says it focuses on innovation, up-to-date technology and continued learning, and that its team is led by a partner who has been named an accounting partner of the year.

Its stated promise

The firm promises clients its best tax advice, its best advice on business structure and access to up-to-date financial strategies, tailored to each person's circumstances with the aim of leaving the client and the business in the strongest financial position.