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Having spent years as a CFO in medium-sized companies before moving into fractional CFO work, I’ve now worked with over 100 growing businesses. And here’s something that took me a while to accept this: traditional budgets don’t work for growth companies. Let me explain why. Growth SMEs need an agile and adaptable approach Coming from […]

Last week, I suggested something: Extraordinary organisations don’t happen by accident. They are intentionally built. That naturally led me to another question. If extraordinary organisations are intentionally built… what exactly are leaders building? Most organisations have capable people. They have a strategy. They invest heavily in technology, leadership development, and modern systems. Yet, organisations with […]

This is part of a three-part series on Succession — covering family, boards, and CEOs — and while each part stands on its own, they’re best read in order. The founder who came back — and the CEO who paid for it This example is a start-up company with an owner board. A majority of […]

Horticultural sector non-compliance on IR’s radar Inland Revenue has issued Revenue Alert RA 26/02, signalling a significant escalation in its compliance focus on the horticultural sector. The Alert identifies a cluster of practices the Commissioner considers pose a real risk to the integrity of the tax system, and confirms that growers, contractors and subcontractors across […]

Court Awarded Costs & GST IR has released Interpretation Statement IS 26/11, setting out when court-awarded costs and disbursements — and equivalent out-of-court settlement payments — attract GST. The short answer for most litigants: they don’t. But there are important exceptions, and the GST status of the party receiving the award can still affect how […]