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Eight Tips on Managing Your Cash Flow
Whether your business is growing or struggling, managing your cash flow effectively is absolutely essential and for many, the very key to business survival. You’ve probably heard the statistic that...
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12 Ways to Avoid a Tax Audit
A tax audit or enquiry is a most unpleasant experience that you would not wish on your worst enemy, yet many taxpayers invite these by carelessness, being downright stupid, not thinking or by not...
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How To Save Tax AND Sleep at Night
Ways to cut your tax bill can put in two broad categories: the legal and the illegal. Although in both cases your cash flow will improve, one of the two will put you at risk of insomnia, bankruptcy,...
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Slash Your Taxes – Starting In Business
Starting a business can be a stressful and expensive time so it pays to make sure you take advantage of all possible ways to save Income Tax and GST. One common oversight is not to claim for tools,...
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Are You Buying A Business?
There seems to be a lot of interest in people buying businesses recently so let us hope that is a good sign for the economy. We’ve already talked about the need for care generally when you are looking...
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Business in the Wild West
Nick with client Adam Kundi who in grateful thanks for the help provided presented Nick with a dress in PNG national colours hand-made by Adam’s wife for Nick’s “woman” (Adam’s words!). Lae is an...
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The Joy of Tax
Did you know that the amount you can earn in Australia before you pay tax is now $18,200 (about $23,100 NZD)? That’s NZD$444 per week or NZD$2,758 a month. Who said that tax rates in Australia are...
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Business Plan… Of Escape?
Between shortage of working capital, available credit and the IRD getting ever tougher, it is no surprise that business failures have increased (as predicted) during the year just gone. With 2013...
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Knowledge Is Power: Taking on the Competition
Too many business owners take an ostrich attitude to competition, hoping that if they completely ignore it, it will stop existing. Unfortunately, the opposite is often true. In fact there are some...
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Maximising your Tax Deductions
Like it or not, income tax is high in New Zealand. As those of us in business know, it can be a struggle to pay in lump sums especially when the prices of what we buy keep going up, and our customers...
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Is Your Accounting Package Still A Good Fit?
For the past few years many businesses have “put off” investing in their accounting system in favour of improving other areas such as sales and production efficiency, i.e. areas that ultimately have an...
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Control your financial mess
Last year a banking contact referred me to a business that was in what can only be described as a total financial mess. Although their accountant was preparing their GST returns, she never went to...
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6 Easy Non-Computerised Marketing Techniques
One of my new clients urgently needed to get some new customers. Now that’s normally my prompt for launching into marketing advice mode and giving my clients some simple and free or low-cost marketing...
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10 Ways to Increase your Profit Margin
Many business owners think you need to increase sales substantially to make more money. But often that’s too difficult, especially in the short term. So how to go about it quickly and easily? Here are...
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SmallBiz: What’s the Best Business Structure?
Choosing the best business structure for your startup is vitally important. But many business owners stumble upon their business structure by accident without any planning at all. I know a case where...
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Business Mentor Manager says SME’s do no Marketing
Ron Massey, the Napier Manager of Business Mentors New Zealand, says that up to 90% of small businesses do no marketing whatsoever. The problem, says Ron, is that most business owners believe that...
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How to Minimise the Chances of an IRD Audit
Many business owners in New Zealand believe that the chances of being audited by the IRD are so slim that they don’t need to worry about it. Well, speaking as someone who has been in little offices...
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Don’t lose Sight of your Profits
A+BAC’s popular quaterly newsletter, Profits inSight, is now out! In this edition, we are giving you solutions for when the tax bill is too high, an interesting way to help you buy your first home with...
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Accounting Software: Cloud or Desktop – the Choice is Yours!
As we know fashion is a huge driver for change, both in our personal lives and in business. Consider, for example, iPads, which became a must-have business travel accessory even though, in comparison...
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End of Financial Year: Checklist
With the end of tax year just around the corner, here a few things that you can do now to minimise your bill and a few things that you absolutely need to know before you start working on that return....
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