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The IRD recently published their Compliance Focus for 2013, aimed at assisting taxpayers and voluntary compliance by identifying areas that the Revenue regularly sees as having high potential for taxpayer error. The material is published on the IRD website and for small to medium businesses outlines ten key areas of focus. One of the identified […]

The seminar “Business Growth and Development in the Online World” was a great success. The speakers we lined up proved to be entertaining and informative. Our very own Adrian Burke kicked off the seminar with a quote “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation”. This was followed by an interesting story about Groupon […]

Having good people and understanding that cash is king in today’s testing business environment are just two reasons why Argus Fire Protection has quadrupled in size under its Managing Director Jacqui Bensemann. Argus Fire Protection, founded in 1981, is a New Zealand owned and operated company with a well established history and reputation second to […]

It has been a long time coming, but finally every partner in our firm is a bike rider. And I don’t mean motor bike riders. I guess that makes us the only CA firm in NZ (excluding sole traders) that has all four of its partners riding bikes, three of which ride now to or […]

The ASB Great Debate is THE event for Auckland 2013. An entertaining, exciting, engaging evening during which a Bruce Sheppard led accountants team took on a Mark Hanaghan led legal team to debate “Lawyers contribute more than Accountants”. The event was a successful fundraiser for Starship, Kidney Kids and other Auckland Rotary supported charites. Here’s […]