Quote of the month – November 2013

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein The material and contents provided in this publication are informative in nature only. It is not intended to be advice and you should not act specifically on the basis...

No surprises this Christmas

Boom time or down time, every business needs to manage the Christmas period. Managing the holiday season well can make a big difference to how your business is positioned in the New Year. Here are our top tips: The scrooge approach to outstanding debtorsPut extra...

The hidden danger of salary sacrifice agreements

If you haven’t reviewed your salary sacrifice arrangement for a while then two recent changes should have spurred you into action. The first is the increase to the super guarantee (SG) rate from 1 July 2013. While the increase from 9% to 9.25% doesn’t sound like a...

Never ending story… more tax change from 1 January

Normally we wouldn’t advise you of potential tax changes until we were absolutely certain that they were going to happen. But this potential tax change is a bit different because if the change goes ahead, your decisions pre and post 1 January could mean several...