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Bruce'sShare options: demystified context and uses
Many share option plans in both the investment markets and employment markets are misunderstood, misused, and don’t deliver for at least one, if not both parties, what they expected. This is the basic jargon: What is an option? The right to buy or sell something at some future point in time. What is a share? […]
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Politics or Good Policy?
Make Up Your Own Mind The 2015 Budget saw the introduction of proposals to “improve compliance in the property investment sector.” Under the new rules, from 1st October 2015, transferors and transferees of land will be required to provide certain tax information at the time of the land transfer, with registration of the transfer not […]
Yi Ping’s Journal: Tramping Joy at the Top
Tramping in New Zealand during winter is dangerous and not that enjoyable, the same applies to Australian and South American trails. So when the craving for dirt protein kicks in, I turned my eyes to the US. A little research on long distance walks in the US yielded 120,000 km of well-formed and maintained tramping […]
Bruce speaks at Waikato University
Bruce is a guest speaker at Waikato University and on this occasion, speaks to a class on “Corporate ethics as opposed to business ethics.” These should be the same but they aren’t. Director’s liability – What is a director? What is the role of a director?… and of course Bruce’s humour and wit comes throughout […]
Jone’s wedding
In August, one of our accountants Jone got married – and man did he do it in style! Jone married Tessie at the First Landing Resort in Fiji. There are some amazing photos available to have a flick through (make sure you’re volume is down low if you’re at work though). Tessie & Jone’s wedding […]

