Your Essential New Financial Year Checklist
New years day isn’t the only day of the year to make a resolution, particularly if you are a small business owner. The start of the new financial year presents a great opportunity to take stock of your current position and set in place strategies…
Take the pain out of managing your tax with these top tips
It is tax time yet again and let’s face it, it is stressful, daunting and a little bit scary. If you’re currently drowning in documents with shoeboxes full of faded receipts that you can’t even read any more, it’s time to give these five tips…
Succession Planning: 5 Considerations
As an accountant grows older, it is important to consider not just retirement, but the way in which one wants to exit the industry. What suits you and your exit strategy? Would you best benefit from selling your practice, merging, or implementing an internal succession…
Understanding The Role of The Director in a Small Business
Regardless of the size of your company, every company needs at least one director. The director of a company is the person responsible for managing a company’s business activities. Larger companies will have multiple directors working as a collective to manage or advise a company…
Cloud Security – 5 Things Your Small Business Needs To Watch out For
Almost every leading software and hardware provider is actively promoting their cloud services. Cloud services can offer users greater access, functionality, and reliability, so it is a logical step for most providers to make. For the consumer, however, there are important questions that must be…
Top 6 law changes for small businesses every accountant needs to know
You can set your watch to the new thicket of laws and regulations coming into effect every year. Luckily this year, the momentum seems to be with employers, and the government’s commitment to simplifying regulation seems genuine.
Which industries give small businesses the best chance of success?
Have you ever wondered which industry would be the best to establish a small business? Surely this would be a big determinant factor for any would-be entrepreneur sitting back at a café and contemplating which market to attack for nation-wide domination. Before scrawling on that…
10 ways to make small business finance headaches a thing of the past
You know your core business, your products and services intimately, but the money side is a headache. It’s easy to push it to one side and hope that the mountain of bills, invoices, receipts and other paperwork will magically sort itself. Newsflash: it won’t.