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EnrichingKPIs are dead: long live Personal Goals
KPIs are short for key performance indicator’s used to measure your employee’s performance. They can be financial, customer, or process-focused. The thing is, generationally, I believe we’ve moved away from using them, and for some businesses, they haven’t even noticed. The catchphrase used to be “work hard, play hard”; nowadays, it’s “work-life balance”. My career […]
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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 […]
Offshore Suppliers and NZ GST
If you are a supplier of either goods or services to NZ based non-business consumers, then this article may be of interest to you. Like most taxing jurisdictions around the globe, NZ has a consumption based sales tax, known as GST (VAT equivalent in other countries), which has been in existence since 1986. Up until […]
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 […]
GSTV: AML – Live Conversation
Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Act – Live Conversation Recorded conversation took place on Wednesday 23rd October 2018. From 1 October 2018, New Zealand accountants will need to comply with the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (Act). We explain this change and how it will impact the way we work […]
