Ideas & Stories

The Razor Gang

One of the interesting reactions to a recession is a business owner’s renewed focus on their Overhead Costs. In earlier downturns, we have encouraged clients to establish an internal team to evaluate all fixed and variable expenses of a business …
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Downturn Survival Guide

Here is our invaluable Downturn Survival Guide for Business Owners. Having helped many clients through times over the past few decades, we put our collective experience into a checklist of those practical and clever things we should be doing right …
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Maximising Employee (and Director) Working from Home Expenses Claims

The ATO simplifies the rules (a bit). For the past few months, our cities and office towers have been almost empty. People are working from home. Even as we contemplate a future return to work, there is a realisation that work habits, social …
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Why is cash more important right now than profit?

How much cash is tied up in your business? It is easy to see. Every time you look at a set of accounts, the balance sheet shows you the breakdown. Of particular interest is that component that is the liquid part … bank accounts (positive or …
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