by Tracy | Aug 8, 2024 | Business
Have you ever been in a meeting with your accountant, hearing how much profit you’ve made and being congratulated on a lift in performance, but in the back of your mind you’re wondering where the cash is and how you’re going to make payroll tomorrow? Don’t worry,...
by Tracy | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
One of the best things about online shopping is instant, hassle-free payment. Enter your details, click, and you’re done. If your customers can make instant online payments, they’re likely to pay you more quickly – and they’ll appreciate the simplicity too. The...
by Tracy | Jul 29, 2024 | Business, Xero
For centuries, accounting was all about reviewing historic information – but that only told you about the past, not what was going to happen in the future. If you’re only looking back at past periods and historic numbers, this limits the insights you can achieve for...
by Tracy | Jul 25, 2024 | Business, Xero
Making time to look over your financial reports each month is an important task for any business owner. If you are not taking time to do this, either because you’re too busy, or perhaps you don’t really understand what you’re looking at and it doesn’t make sense to...
by Tracy | Jul 9, 2024 | Business
Productivity is a term associated with strong economies, robust businesses and the efficiency gains of clever staff. If only businesses were efficient, then we would have fewer of them failing, more employment and better incomes for owners and workers alike. In New...
by Tracy | Jul 8, 2024 | Business, News
How should I be pricing my product or service? We’ve all heard the stories about the person that worked in the retail store, misheard an instruction from the owner about pricing a clearance product, mistakenly priced it double and sold them all in a day. Pricing...
by Tracy | Jul 4, 2024 | Business, News
What makes my product or service attractive – my Value Proposition? Borrowing from the world of advertising, Rosser Reeves of US agency Ted Bates was the first to coin the single minded proposition phrase in his book Reality In Advertising back in 1961. He...
by Tracy | Jul 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
In this series, we will see how three questions for business success are approached and provide some practical tools and techniques for small business owners to answer them. Timeless Questions for Business Owners Since businesses have been in existence, these...
by Tracy | Jun 14, 2024 | Business, News
When you’re starting out as a small business owner, the temptation is to go DIY with your accounting. Hiring a professional accountant or tax adviser costs money and that’s an overhead that you can remove by doing all the financial management yourself, right? But is...
by Tracy | May 30, 2024 | News, Tax
Budget 2024 is here, and it’s packed with tax relief measures to help you keep more of what you earn. If you have children, you’ll see an average benefit of $78 per fortnight. In total, around 1.9 million households will benefit by $60 per fortnight on...