In focus 2016: What is volatility?
Volatility is essentially the up and down movement of the market. It measures how quickly or slowly prices change. It ...
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Dreading your next performance review? Turn it into an opportunity!
Year end is often performance review time in many companies. Whether your organisation conducts performance reviews, annually, bi-annually or more frequently ...
Money matters: Effective Budgeting
Budgeting is the most useful forecasting tool available to most businesses, but developing a comprehensive budget is not always as ...
Improving productivity by building strong teams
Building strong teams and successful businesses is the driving force behind our work. An important part of this approach is ...
Employee vs contractor myth busting
There are many myths surrounding the contractor vs employee rule. Here we bust a few of them and provide a brief summary of the rules. It’s ...
Best’s Great Western Wines
‘Best’s Great Western Vineyard’ started with the official registration of land to Mr Henry Best in 1866. Henry named his land ‘Concongella’ and planted the first vines ...
How to improve your organisational culture
From recruitment and retention through to employee and client satisfaction, the culture of your organisation can impact every facet of your business. Organisational culture incorporates the values, ...
Protecting your organisation from fraud: An SME Perspective
Small business owners often take pride in the ‘family’ culture of their organisation, but unfortunately not all employees do the ...
Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law (‘MAAL’) now in place in Australia
Is your business a global entity with customers in Australia? If so you may be affected by Australia’s new tax ...
Superannuation changes – no need to panic
There has been plenty of commentary and opinions (in some cases over-dramatic ones) in the last month on the superannuation ...
Tax Planning 2015/16 – last chance before 30 June
With just a few short weeks before 30 June, now is your last chance to tackle tax planning for this ...
Eight simple steps to saving for your first home
If you’re a young person living in this modern consumerist world, you may be finding it an impossible challenge to ...
Small businesses: be ready for SuperStream
Superstream has been in place for a couple of years now, and for businesses with less than 20 employees, the ...
Five ways to embrace technology in your business
In years gone past, small businesses had to shell out big dollars for technology but now advanced technologies are highly ...
Aged Care Reforms: Towards a consumer-driven market
Aged care providers and consumers continue to face a raft of changes as part of the Living Longer Living Better ...
Making a new (financial) year’s resolution
It may seem like only a few weeks ago that we were all making our perennial new year’s resolutions. Most ...
Federal Budget 2016: Jobs and growth
“Jobs and growth” – three words that were said thirteen times in Treasurer Scott Morrison’s Budget speech and the three ...
Business Intelligence – a game changer for SMEs
In order to stand apart from the competition, increase revenue and boost profits, a company needs to make intelligent decisions, ...