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For those of you who attended our recent event on business growth, you would have heard Liam Forde from ‘The Zone’ talk about the role of human engagement in successful business execution, and the tools essential to optimise that. I was introduced to Liam by a mutual friend over 20 years ago, that’s two decades […]

Quite often, a company holding a family business may need to improve its ownership structure; this can mean transferring shares from ‘individuals’ into ‘trusts’. Common situations where this occurs: Succession planning – when the controlling individuals bring family members together in an attempt to make a viable business across generations. Risk protection – when the […]

Traditional bookkeeping once involved tedious, manual, data entry, stuck behind the computer. Transactions were typed in one digit at a time, and bank reconciliations typically only happened once the paper statement was received or downloaded from an online banking platform. ARTICLE SERIES: KEEPER OF BOOKS The old… Paperwork needs to be filed and stored for […]

The Government has recently released a discussion document titled ‘Design of the interest limitation rule and additional bright-line rules’. It’s a rather lengthy 144 pages, and as the title suggests, the document not only discusses the proposed ‘interest limitation rules’, but also provides commentary surrounding some proposed additional bright-line rules. Before I get into the […]

It has been a commonly held misconception that large corporations are more likely to be at risk from cyber-attacks compared to small/medium organisations, mainly due to the fact that larger businesses are much more desirable due to the scale of the operation and the sensitivity of the information. However, change in technology in the 21st […]