
Delivering gifts down the chimney?
Don’t get stuck (with extra tax)!
Before setting your elves to work, check out the rules, so you don’t end up with any surprise tax to pay!

Don’t get stuck (with extra tax)!
Before setting your elves to work, check out the rules, so you don’t end up with any surprise tax to pay!

Happy Work-versary Katherine – 9 years as a key member of the stream team!

Some of our clients say ‘I’m really not good with numbers’ or a more blunt ‘I’m a numbers idiot’.
If you are great at designing beautiful structures, decorating home interiors, helping businesses recruit staff or selling ice to eskimos, you should probably focus on that and get some experts to help you manage and understand all the other things that happen in a small business.
We custom design service packages for our clients that include as much support as they need, including meetings to read through the reports – in plain english.
Ask us to help you get up to speed with the numbers and reports for your business.

Tonight is the night!
We are proud to be supporters for a 4th time!
What is Community Pitch? It’s a little like Shark Tank only much friendlier.
Uniting businesses and community to create positive change.

Why don’t we get together over a cuppa and cake and have a chat?
The chat doesn’t have to be restricted to just bookkeeping matters – a wide ranging chat about your business and your life outside of your work gives you the opportunity to be heard and understood – the better we know you, the better we can support the whole you.
Afternoon tea is an important productivity enhancement tool!

Small business really is a team sport – you can’t be the manager, pitcher, catcher, batter and cover all the bases at the same time!
Forming a great team of match-fit individuals is necessary. If you’re the batter, recruit the other players. You might think a couple of all rounders will do, but if you don’t know the rules of the game yet – you need seasoned professionals, not more enthusiastic amateurs and playmates.
In any game, you need to play as a team – and that includes you as the business owner. You can’t play a good game on your own.

Xero has announced the return of the Xero Beautiful Business Fund, backing small businesses for the future.
Regional category winners will win $20k AUD
and if you are 1 of the 4 global winners – another $50k AUD!
Good luck! We’ll be cheering you on!

Fit and healthy employees are more productive.
How do you help your staff with their well being?
There are heaps of options to look after physical and mental wellbeing. We’ve rounded up a few resources for you and your team (don’t forget you are part of the team if you are employed by your company – different rules for sole traders).
Why not combine physical and mental wellbeing by join a workplace challenge to support a charity?
Is there one little thing you can do this month to improve the health and fitness of your employees (including you)?

Are members of your team kicking the day off early to sneak out a bit earlier during the holidays?
Employers need to be aware what ordinary spread of hours of work are for their industry, and when extra loadings might be payable.
Check your award for fine print before your flexible work arrangements cost you more than you bargained for!

The Fringe Benefits Tax year ends on 31st March, are you aware what might trigger this extra tax for your business?
A fringe benefit is like a payment to an employee, but in a different form to salary or wages.
Your tax agent can assist with calculations, lodgement, and what exemptions might apply. They may also assist you to make smarter decisions to avoid future lodgements and liabilities.