The holiday season is a schism in the business world. On one hand retailers do exceedingly well in this cash rich period of excess and indulgence. One the other hand, service focused or B2B businesses will face a slow period of  shutdown as annual leave…

Just starting a business? Feeling overwhelmed? Read straight up professional advice for first timers in the business world. We continue our exploration into ‘Know your numbers’ with some solid advice on managing  important dates for small business. Your social calendar may be full of exciting…

So you started a business! Fantastic. Are you prepared to crash and burn? Oh, yes positivity is key, but really. Are you ready for failure? A savvy business owner sure would be after glancing at a few of the alarming stats floating around.  “I haven’t…

Ok so you are out there now, freelancing like you always dreamed of. Bosses are a quaint memory and a smug work/life satisfaction is your new normal. You once led a structured cubicle life, held prisoner by the hands of a watch and a tight…

Having a good work / life balance has always been important to my husband Rob, and myself.  We have seven successful adult children and we ensured as they were growing up that they did not miss out on anything children from smaller families might experience. …

It is an increasing trend among business practices nowadays to promote self-service. Self-service is strangely enough the practice of helping yourself, and, it is so popular nowadays, that you will barely find a business which doesn’t have some sort of self-service practice implemented. Serve yourself! The…

In order to get a better idea of what a bookkeeper does, let’s start by dispelling one myth. They don’t actually keep books, that would be the job of a librarian. Instead, they keep financial records. Sure, all of these records were stored in some…

With technology trends and compliance being hot topics many accountancy practices know that they need to make in-house changes and adopt new technology, but what are the real benefits and the business case for doing so? 1) Good technology drives recruitment & staff retention. Do…