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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 […]

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 […]

[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 […]

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 […]

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 […]