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BookkeepingHow to prepare for annual accounts: your unshakeable frenemy
Annual accounts—a business owner’s unshakeable frenemy. No matter the size or type of your enterprise, be it a start-up, a multinational, or a charity—this task waits for you, year in, year out. These accounts are a snapshot of your business’s financial health, a tool for decision-making, and a requirement for tax compliance and stakeholder trust. […]
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Business as a means to assist the individual pursuit of happiness
When you visit a place like Washington DC, where the most powerful country was birthed and read the words inscribed in the Jefferson Monument: [box] “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and […]
Benefiting From Others Going First
How did I come to be on an island, walking through the bush with two Aussie blokes at 5.30am? For the past few years I have been a member of an informal Trans-Tasman Best Practice Group. The formation of the group came from a shared membership of what was then Polaris – an international accounting […]
Strengths and Weaknesses in the Workplace
We all have different personalities. Gilligan Sheppard have recently run a Belbin Team Role survey with our leadership team. My results indicated that I can be caring, territorial, helpful, encouraging of others, outgoing, enterprising, over-sensitive, and the list goes on. Others in our team have a different makeup of words. These individual traits are what […]
Do you want your business to be mediocre, or great?
[box] “There’s always someone who knows something.” ― Stephen King “Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.” ― Lemony Snicket “There’s more to getting to where you’re going than just knowing there’s a road.” ― Joan Lowery Nixon [/box] How many […]
Outsourcing in the Philippines
Recently Debra and I made a trip to Clark, Philippines to spend some time with our team there – Grace and Arlyn. My time over there led me to reflect on my experience with outsourcing to the Philippines, the changes that this way of working has brought about and the differences with our two outsource […]
