Business in Focus

May 2021

  • Economic update
  • Plan early for succession
  • Easing the pain of post-JobKeeper layoffs                                  
  • Are you breadcrumbing staff?                          
  • Divorce: when personal and business life collides
  • Investing in today’s stock market
  • Don’t pigeonhole your clients
May 2021

April 2021

  • Join the good culture club
  • Jabs, jobs & the law
  • 7 social media trends for 2021
  • Who’s next on the ATO’s list?
  • Managing conflict – the proactive approach
  • Digital versus the human touch
  • Got a good story? Tell it!
April 2021

March 2021

  • March 2021 economic update
  • Business beyond JobKeeper                                                      
  • Who’s heading back to the office?                                            
  • Can you demand a return to the workplace?                             
  • Avoiding unintended underpayments
  • Sharemarket update                                                                
  • Ramping up your accounting practice in 2021
March 2021

February 2021

  • 2021 economy: what lies ahead
  • Financing your business post COVID
  • Keys to success in 2021
  • Writing great blogs for SEO
  • The old and new realities of customer service
  • Unlocking the genius in your business
  • Shaking up the legal profession
  • Overcoming self-doubt
February 2021

December 2020

  • 2020 year in review – and what a year!
  • Be brave – be expensive! 
  • Time’s money – invest it wisely!
  • Why bother with job descriptions? 
  • Designing a lead-generating website 
  • Is an SMSF right for you?
  • Banish waste one step at a time 
December 2020

November 2020

  • Post-budget economic review
  • Federal Budget 2020 – turbo-charged for business 
  • How to get the bank to say yes
  • Who’s a bad boss?
  • A perfect storm for mature workers
  • Why respect trumps harmony 
  • Future work practices for accountants
November 2020

October 2020

  • Time to discuss the “e” word
  • Improving your practice one step at a time
  • Opportunities in rural Australia
  • Customer data and the spam laws – beware!
  • The Small Business CGT concession 15-year exemption 
  • Achieving financial autonomy
  • Are your clients okay?

 

 

October 2020

September 2020

  • JobKeeper extension – who’s eligible? 
  • Managing urgency
  • 10 keys to boosting sales during COVID
  • Practical steps to save the environment 
  • Bouncing back while in ISO
  • Sharemarket behaviour during recessions
  • Try improving your ASSETS
September 2020

August 2020

  • A case for consultative selling
  • Voluntary administration - the road to survival?
  • Megatrends from COVID
  • Controlling a crisis
  • Simple principles for social media success
  • Snapshot on tax and Australian residency
  • Sharemarket update
  • What do you want to be known for?
August 2020

July 2020

  • New economic model for the new normal
  • Advisor or expert – what's in a name?
  • How focused are you on customer service?
  • Collaboration – key to post-COVID growth
  • Never stop selling!
  • Focus on family trust elections
  • Don’t scupper your own success
  • Staying optimistic – now’s the time
July 2020

June 2020

  • The big tech lessons of working from home
  • Protecting your practice from cyber threats
  • Back to the basics of JobKeeper
  • Managing contract issues under COVID-19
  • 6 steps to customer engagement right now
  • Encouraging peak performance from your team
  • Better communication for better business
  • How to build a seven-figure business – fast!
June 2020

May 2020

  • Calling the economy during COVID-19
  • JobKeeper wage subsidies – a lifeline for small business
  • Flattening the "insolvency curve"
  • The Laws around standing down staff
  • Riding the rocky sharemarket
  • Preserving your mental health
  • Four keys to building an advisory service
May 2020

April 2020

  • Economic update - coronavirus
  • Trading with China as the pandemic persists
  • Don’t let coronavirus kill your business
  • Grow your practice with collaborative partnerships
  • Disrupting the meat industry - farm by farm
  • SMSFs and property development – beware the rules!
  • Building a performance improvement culture
  • Recovering from deep debt
April 2020

March 2020

  • 2020 Scope economic forecast: Neville versus the rest
  • Watchouts for bushfire victims
  • Clarifying the current dismissal laws
  • Restraint of trade: but what’s reasonable?
  • Finding the right business structure: start-up case study!
  • Should gold be part of your investment portfolio?
  • 10 commandments of customer service excellence
  • Making technology your greatest business ally
March 2020

February 2020

  • 2020 economic forecast
  • Integrating your business advisory to a CRM
  • Warning signs your clients are in financial distress
  • Growing in recessionary times
  • Managing a catastrophic event
  • Being strategic about social media
  • Spotlight on company structures
  • Great service versus low prices
February 2020

December 2019

  • 2019 economic review
  • 10 value-adding accounting services
  • Sleep your way to success
  • Working your motivation muscle
  • Why we should all embrace failure
  • In case of incapacity – what’s the plan?
  • Lessons of 75 years in painting
  • Don’t let Impostor Syndrome hold you back
December 2019

November 2019

  • Unleashing your greatest potential
  • Soft skills – the future for successful accountants
  • Your service as a product
  • Using the news to build your name
  • Managing the consequences of a crisis
  • Amnesty on Super Guarantee Charge
  • Preparation: the key to sales success
  • The triggers to business growth
November 2019

October 2019

  • Economic update
  • Are you fit for the future?
  • What's your practice's point of difference?
  • Moving forward from a commercial conversation
  • Trading with China
  • The meaning of true leadership
  • Choosing partnerships as a business structure
  • Investing in listed property trusts
  • 7 keys to finding the right business coach
October 2019

September 2019

  • A new guide for accountants to help business access funding
  • Gathering information from your clients to help them
  • Payroll perils and how to avoid them
  • Winning the war on talent
  • Action on business funding - and the unfair dismissal rules
  • It’s all about trusts
  • Getting the best price when selling a business
  • Speaking with impact
September 2019

August 2019

  • Could interest rates hit zero?
  • 5 ways ways accounting practices can upsell
  • Setting up a commercial conversation
  • The safe use of debt
  • How positive is the property rebound?
  • The dangers of employee burnout
  • Tax rules for website development
  • Index v. active investing
  • Managing the work-life balance “myth”

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