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What have been the key successes in your business? I suspect it perhaps wasn't landing a big account, or the discovery of a new process. It seems to me that sometimes it is the small but important things that make the difference. I recently read a quote from American, Fred McFeely Rogers which struck a nerve:
One of the things I regularly hear from clients relates to the amount of available cash flow (or lack of it) they have. Now there can be a number of reasons that cash flow can become stretched in a business, most of which are easily manageable. One of the key factors often neglected is your customer accounts (your debtors).
"Are you listening to me?" my wife asks for the third time as I am checking my email and phone messages as soon as I walk in from a busy day at the office. "Yeah, yeah", I say "I'm listening." When in fact the reality is that I am a million miles away. I am not even close to concentrating on what she has to say.
Over recent years, I have read a lot of material about culture and the positive and negative impacts that this can have on the performance of your organisation, team or business. It was especially interesting reading this week as I have followed the current rise and momentum attached to the Port Adelaide Football Club.
One of the incentives that the current Government introduced for primary producers as a part of the Clean Energy Future Plan, the “conservation tillage refundable tax offset” seems to have had very little press or action over the past financial year. 
So what does a "non-election" budget in the lead up to an election look like? It's a no win-no win, with plenty of spending cuts, almost no sector of the community spared, yet it still manages to add another $19.4 billion to the national debt levels. 
There are two kinds of business owners, those that are decisive...and those who aren't sure. In business today, we are faced with a multitude of decisions to make. An endless flow of emails, phone calls, visitors, websites and more, all screaming for attention and wanting a piece of you! 
Every year we see new clients come to us with huge tax bills they had not expected. Their comments are all the same: 
In order to assist corporate business with the struggling economy of recent years and encourage growth, the Government intends to introduce a "carry-back" loss measure. 
You have probably been hearing a lot about changes to super in the news recently. So what does it all actually mean?
