Foreign currency is something many exporters deal with on a regular basis, and with the Australian dollar often fluctuating it literally pays to manage your foreign exchange risk. Cameron Bayley checks out solutions. The Australian dollar doesn’t like to sit still. Owen McMahon, the ANZ bank’s head of foreign exchange for the SME market spells […]
We polled some of our export finance experts—Austrade’s Tim Harcourt, St George’s Andrew Currie, Westpac’s Alexander Cameron—for 10 tips to make sure you stay on top of your export finance. We polled some of our export finance experts—Austrade’s Tim Harcourt, St George’s Andrew Currie, Westpac’s Alexander Cameron—for 10 tips to make sure you stay on […]
With a view to guiding Australian exporters to this lucrative culture, Joe Parkes examines tradition and modernism in South Korea. When Australian exporters lob into Seoul for the first time they are invariably surprised at how modern and familiar everything looks: the high-rise business centres, charming suburban homes and flats, wide, busy streets and verdant […]
In the midst of a broad national campaign fostering Asia-Pacific trade, Ian Murray takes a statistical snapshot of the importance of APEC. A few weeks ago I went to the launch of the APEC Education Resource entitled APEC: Strengthening our Community, Building a Sustainable Future. The resource, launched by Alexander Downer, will be distributed to […]
Retail Management The Australian Centre for Retail Studies (ACRS) is offering a course to help retail management stay on top of the continuing skills shortage. The Attracting and Retaining Retail Stars program will be held in Sydney from June 11 to 12, and in Melbourne on September 19 to 20. The name of the course […]
Hot new products… 1) Acer Slim Desktop The Acer Veriton 1000 is part of Acer’s new L series of desktops that are so slim they’re being called ‘notebook replacements’. Ten times smaller and four times lighter than traditional PC towers, they offer space-saving solutions to businesses who still need a desktop. As well a streamlined […]
While the aim for many businesses is to move out of the start-up and into the growth stage, without adequate cash flow, your business’s growth may stall. Dennis Mattiske takes us through the ins and outs of some alternative methods of funding your business growth. When seeking to finance their […]
In March this year, WorkChoices celebrated its first birthday. Matthew Hourn takes us through some of the biggest controversies to date, and what to expect in the future. WorkChoices has been described as the most comprehensive and significant change to Industrial Relations in Australia for almost 100 years. The new legislation is supported by some […]
It sometimes seems that every man and his dog is running an online business, so how hard can it be? Cameron Bayley talks to e-commerce entrepreneurs about the nuts and bolts involved in launching their online businesses and finds it’s not all hunky dory. In theory, it all seems so easy. Come up with a […]
He’s Australia’s mortgage magician who, in less than a decade, built a small home lending business into a behemoth turning over hundreds of millions of dollars. Camille Howard talks to Mark Bouris, the marketing genius behind Wizard Home Loans. Seven years in a chartered accountants firm and seven years in a law firm (with know-how […]
