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How to Read the story within your Financial Data

For many businesses, the two major costs they experience are: Cost of Sales and Wages. Understanding how each of these main costs impact your business means that you can make better decisions to move your business to the next level.

How to Increase Cash-flow in Your Business

Free cashflow is the lifeblood of business, not only is it a sign of profitability but also provides a resource to help you grow your business into the future. Free cashflow is what’s left after all your expenses – think rent, wages, finance repayments, taxes. Having enough free cashflow in your business eliminates one of the most common business owner headaches – and taking control is not so difficult – it just requires a little planning, enlightenment and system changes.

Is a Cash Drought Approaching Your Business

It’s no secret that cash flow is the life-blood of any business. Discover simple ways to generate more cash flow into your business quickly.

10 Tips for Collecting Outstanding debts

Business owners always want more cash and time; find out 10 ways to get both in your business.

Hidden Profits

We often have business owners approach us saying that they are working hard, doing all the right things but feel like they aren’t making any money.  Their existing advisors keep telling them that they’re making a profit, but despite looking everywhere they can’t seem to find it.  The real crunch comes at tax time when they have a tax bill but no cash to pay it.

Don’t Become a Small Business Statistic

Discover how cloud applications can benefit your business by giving you the information and data you need to make more accurate decisions.

Responsibilities of a Business Owner to ATO and ASIC

As a business owner you have a number of responsibilities to various Government Organisations and also to the public. You are bound by laws from local, state and federal levels as well as organisational bodies. In this blog we will cover your main obligations to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) for a business owner and specifically a Director of a company. 

Commonly Used Business Structures

We outline the basics of different business structures such as company, trust and sole trader and explain the pros and cons of each.

Starting a Business? Where to go for Guidance

Often when you start a business you take advice from friends and family about how to go about getting set up. We frequently find people come to us either not knowing where to go, or they have gone to the wrong people about the wrong things. It’s a minefield and can be overwhelming for many people getting started.

Xero Tips and Tricks

With continual new features being added it’s often difficult to stay ahead of how you can better use xero to speed up internal processes.  The following are some of the tips and tricks we were reminded of at XeroCon