Build carefully. Work hard. Take risks. Back yourself. Invest in something real. The idea was that if you put in the years and made sound decisions, the outcome would reflect that. It was not a guarantee, business never is, but the system, broadly, was on your side. Estate planners and wealth advisers are calling the […]
Kevin Lovewell is an accountant specialising in Business Valuation.
The pattern is now unmistakable and the Reserve Bank has confirmed it. Evidence I am gathering in valuation work and in market sales; shows that gross and net profit margins in the Australian construction industry are compressing once again. Here is what it means for your business — and what you can do about it. […]
Kevin Lovewell is an accountant specialising in Business Valuation.
You use the same familiar process every year. Your accountant reviews your financials and asks a few questions, makes a few changes, and each year the tax returns are submitted then you move on. When you are ready to take the business to market your broker uses those same financials. Then, quietly and without warning, […]
Kevin Lovewell is an accountant specialising in Business Valuation.
You’ve built something real. Years of early mornings, difficult decisions, and hard-won relationships have produced a business that sustains you, employs people, and occupies a genuine place in the market. Now, for whatever reason, you’re ready to sell. And the question you’re asking yourself is entirely reasonable: “How hard can it really be?” The honest […]
Kevin Lovewell is an accountant specialising in Business Valuation.
Estate planners and wealth advisers across Australia have started using a different name for the new Capital Gains Tax changes. Death taxes. It is a blunt label. But once you understand what is actually being proposed, particularly for family businesses and trust holders, it is not a difficult one to understand. The issue with trusts. […]
Kevin Lovewell is an accountant specialising in Business Valuation.
Why One Independent Expert Beats Two Adversarial Ones — Every Time Two expert valuers. Same business. Same documents. One says $3.2 million. The other says $1.1 million. Both are qualified. Both are experienced. Both are willing to defend their number in court. This is not a hypothetical. It is a routine feature of contested commercial […]
Kevin Lovewell is an accountant specialising in Business Valuation.
I will keep this short. Because that is the point. If you sell your business after 1 July 2027 and you cannot demonstrate what it was worth before or on that date, you will very likely pay more tax than you need to. That is not a scare tactic. It is the mechanics of the […]
Kevin Lovewell is an accountant specialising in Business Valuation.
Business Owners in Building and Construction Need to Act. Note: The measures discussed in this article were announced in the 2026–27 Federal Budget on 12 May 2026. They are proposals, not yet enacted law. Draft legislation is expected later this year. I am a Registered Business Valuer, not a tax adviser. Nothing in this article […]
Kevin Lovewell is an accountant specialising in Business Valuation.
Jim Chalmers’ 2023 essay was written immediately after delivering his first Federal Budget and was presented as a new economic manifesto for Australia, a “values-based capitalism” built upon co-investment, market redesign, wellbeing frameworks and expanded public purpose. But by 2026, two projects alone stand as irrefutable evidence that this was not a durable economic framework. […]
Kevin Lovewell is an accountant specialising in Business Valuation.
AI and the Evolution of Valuation Practice Standards do not stand still. That is rather the point of them. The International Valuation Standards Council reviews and revises its standards on a three-year cycle. The current edition, effective 31 January 2025, represents the most recent iteration of that process. The next cycle is already underway. The […]
Kevin Lovewell is an accountant specialising in Business Valuation.
