Cashflow
While basic cashflow rules may seem tiresome, they are an effective way to ensure your business isn’t burned when your customers hit hard times, here are 12 easy ways to improve your cashflow – today!
SMEs often aren’t fussy enough about who they deal with in their eagerness to close a sale. But if that customer never pays up, it will end up doing you more harm than good.
If there’s one thing that doesn’t change for small business year to year, it’s the importance of good cashflow management.
Small and medium business owners in Australia would like to see a ‘Small Business Ombudsman’ established to help deal with problems affecting them, with small business owners rating taxes, interest rates and government red tape the biggest problems they face in a national survey conducted by COSBOA and Telstra released today.
I used to have the cleanest office in the world when I had a horrible or uncomfortable task to do. It was always easier to scrub the floors than it was to address a problem, or an elephant, in my business. However, by allowing our businesses to work around a big elephant in the room we are losing money.
Getprice today released its 2011 Shopping report that examined the behaviours of over 3000 consumers who have visited the site, revealing that service, not price is the most important factor for Australians when buying online.
The Reserve Bank of Australia Board in its meeting today decided to hold official interest rates unchanged at 4.75 percent due to the dampening effect on inflation and economic activity as a result of the floods in Queensland.
OfferMe, the first company to bring Groupon’s group coupon buying model to Australia, announced that it has had to look outside Australia for investors, but is on the verge of finalising a Series A round of substantial venture funding.
Mark Bouris, the Dynamic Business cover star from August last year, believes the Queensland floods show that Australian business and home owners are not adequately protected with regards to insurance.
After the success of our Tips for mortgage holders affected by Queensland & Victorian Floods article earlier this week, we asked Mortgage Choice for more general tips for business owners looking to get their mortgages under control and free up working capital for your business in 2011.
Mortgage Choice has identified a number of tips for mortgage holders and businesses with loans affected by the floods in Queensland and Victoria, we have republished them below and hope you find them useful.
Family Trusts, also known as Discretionary Trusts are a popular way of structuring small business in Australia, but Family Trusts are are in the ATO’s firing line with news that trustees could lose their streaming benefits under a new ruling soon to be released by the ATO.
Gerry Harvey’s calls for a GST on imported goods bought online has caught the attention of Australian IT retailer eStore, with eStore.com.au offering customers GST-free goods this weekend, 15 and 16 January 2011.
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) is showing its support for victims of the Queensland floods with the offer of free financial advice to affected residents.
Leasing equipment can free up cash for more important needs, here are the top ten reasons to consider leasing as an option for your business.
In the flurry of activity to establish and grow a business, many business owners fail to differentiate between financial products and services designed for business as opposed to personal use.
GST is a hot topic of late, with Gerry Harvey and the Fair Imports Alliance arguing for it to be applied to all online imports under $1,000 as well as the National Retailers Alliance’s small business members joining the campaign.
Freelancer.com has announced their findings on the fastest growing online outsourcing jobs in the third quarter of 2010 with the release of the Freelancer Fast 50.
Viocorp has announced a $5 million private investment from the Bailador Fund, established by former CEO of Fairfax David Kirk and Paul Wilson, an experienced private equity investor.
The federal government’s review into the taxation of trusts is the most significant attempt at trust tax reform in the last decade, according to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
