Harry Notaras Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Australia

The core task of an ABS Business Broker is to sell businesses for our clients. That is what we do. How we go about doing that will depend on the circumstances of our clients.Ideally there should be a sharing of mutual expectations. No broker wants to undertake a task as important as selling someones business if they do not believe in their heart that they can accomplish the task.Where the greatest success has occurred is where a professional and methodical process is followed.This typically begins with a discussion with the business owner and an assessment of the business. One of the valuable contributions I have been able to make to business owners is to provide a written proposal containing an appraisal of the business with an analysis aimed at either suggesting what needs to occur to prepare the business for sale or a strategy for the sale of the business along with a sensible listing price.I have been able to utilise the very valuable skills that were acquired by becoming a Registered Business Valuer with the Australian Institute of Business Brokers to provide this service.This qualification enables me to provide an opinion of value of an enterprise that can be defended in a court of law. I have used the skills acquired during this training to provide a cost effective service to clients who do not require the degree of rigour required to avoid being outwitted by a barrister.The greatest degree of satisfaction has come from being able to provide a realistic price range for a business and to map out a pathway for a business owning client to exit a business and then making that happen.The clients I usually see have their hands full running a business and while they are sophisticated in the way they operate the business they usually need a hand up when it comes to finding a way out of it.I describe myself as a specialist generalist. It's the process that gets the result, regardless of the business.

Brisbane, Townsville

For a period of 15 years I was in the financial planning industry.In the first instance it was as an economist for a boutique firm that grew to be a force in the industry. 15 years later during a period where my underlying association throughout the entire period was with the firm it came to an end one could only characterise as catastrophically abrupt. The name of the firm was Storm Financial. Google it if you want to find out more.My initial move into financial planning was a way of utilising many of the analytic skills I had learned as an economist and through my formal studies of finance and applying them in the private sector. I had decided to leave my lecturing gig at the university and embark on a new career.Apart from the manner of departure it was a valuable experience where I was to run my own business for about a decade and had experience with advising clients regarding their balance sheets and using it to make money.In a way it is similar to what I do now accept the wealth I advise and deal in is my clients business rather than their passive assets.I was provided the opportunity to make presentations to many groups and individuals and learned about the importance of using the provision of a consistent, analytic and bespoke service to help my clients.My impact on the business of my licence holder was subtle but powerful by introducing economic and financial concepts to many of the operations. In addition, I was able to construct an excel program that provided the platform upon which to leverage the business and create efficiencies in the provision of service to clients.

Brisbane, Sydney, Townsville

I had experience as a director of a spin-off from Storm Financial during this period. It was a company aimed at building tools and providing services to the financial planning industry.

Stones Corner, Brisbane

During this period I established a financial planning practice. This time of self employment was a chance to learn valuable lessons about operating a small business which has served me well as I advise my small and medium business clients.It was a happy period of my life when the business was able to provide flexibility so that I could be actively engaged with my young children and I was king of their world, It was also complicated because running a business can get that way.

Townsville, Australia

This was my early days in the financial planning industry where I joined a firm I was to remain associated with for the entire period I was in the industry. I had a lot to learn and boy did I learn.

Townsville, Australia

- Lectured second and third year econometrics and assisted in the supervision of honors students- Used text by Gujarati to teach ordinary least squares regression analysis on time series data- Drew on my own research specifying and estimating Consumption Functions for Australia to teach the geneal to specific method of determining an empirical model- The general to pacific method places importance on interpreting model outcomes using economic theory and mitigating the temptation to data mine

Townsville, Bisbane And Canberra

My early working experience was as an economist in the public sector working for what was then the Centre for Applied Economic Research and Analysis -a project sponsored by the Queensland State Treasury Department. This work was aimed at producing macro econometric modeling of state economic variables to be used in state budget forecasts.Prior to undertaking work for the QLD State Treasury I was employed for a short period in the Federal Treasury. During this period I was in the Insurance and Superannuation Section of the Treasury which then became the Insurance and Superannuation Commission. Among other things I contributed to the debate regarding how insurers were to treat the then still new threat of AIDS in reaching underwriting decisions.

M. Phil, Finance

Activities and Societies: Awarded a Bursary from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Member of Christ's College, Rowed in all the major boat.

Cpbb, Certified Practicing Business Broker

This is a course undertaken to assist me with my current career of Business Broking

Masters, Applied Finance

Activities and Societies: This degree was completed on a part time basis while working full time. All financial planners with the dealer I.

Bachelor, Economics With Honours First Class

Activities and Societies: During this time I also became a tutor in microeconomics.

Registered Business Valuer, Business Valuation, Graduate

The final assessment included the valuation of a combined distribution business with a network of retail outlets. It required.