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As Practice Manager for Gilligan Sheppard, I am speaking from experience on the subject. This article describes the method I used to get to a better place – hopefully it helps you as well. The old saying “fake it ‘til you make it” requires effort, consistency and time. But what happens when it’s just too […]

For those of you who have talked to us about managing talent and culture to drive business value or succession in SME’s, our current initiative in Gilligan Sheppard to introduce an Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP) will not come as a surprise. What is surprising, it’s that it is the first to have been introduced […]

Richard has had over 30 years’ experience with NZ taxation, and particularly enjoys dealing with land tax issues and the GST regime. He deals with clients of all types and sizes and provides tax opinions on the appropriate treatment of items of income and expenditure, assists clients with IRD risk reviews and audits and can assist […]

The next Thought Leader that we spoke to is a professional that frequently updates Finance Monthly and our readers on all things tax in New Zealand. Here Richard Ashby, who has been dealing with New Zealand taxation for over 29 years, introduces us to recent developments in the sector and shares his predictions for the […]

I was told this week that I am the glue in our practice. As a practice manager, (a title that in no way describes what I do each day), I asked myself, what does that mean? After some thinking and naval gazing, I’ve decided that this needs to be part of who I am to […]