Business in Focus

• Budget 2015 overview
• The Budget & tax
• The benefits and risks of flexible work practices
• Fintech lenders – friends or foes of SMEs?
• The importance of soft skills for accountants
• Mid-2015 property update
• Benefits and watchouts of using a call centre
• Sharemarket update
• Managing email overload

• Pre-Budget Perspectives
• Leveraging your skills for sales
• App technology dusts up the cleaning industry
• Helping your kids into property
• Positioning your practice to grow advice services
• Employee share plan changes: the good, the bad and what to do
• Sharemarket update
• Black dog: the high price of success
• Lessons learnt from fast growth

• Taking snow gear to the world
• Managing mental health in the workplace
• Future directions for super: a balanced perspective!
• A guide to complying with workplace laws
• Business lessons from the extreme
• Surviving a major business set-back
• Sharemarket update
• Are strong opinions useful?
• Re-ignite your passion for work and life

• Economic update
• Managing the risk of terrorism
• The integrated organisation
• Don’t be caught out by the latest scams
• Are you ready to sell up?
• Leading with strengths
• FBT – the exciting bits!
• Sharemarket update
• Getting back to the things that matter

• Crunching the numbers for 2015
• All change: the new world of work
• Be agile to boost resilience
• Who controls your SMSF?
• Getting maximum value from LinkedIn
• Tax considerations when expanding overseas
• Making best use of cloud technology
• Sharemarket update
• Business breakups - good versus bad

• 2014 economic review
• Tax Reform Process
• Succession planning for practice continuity
• Planning that actually works
• Who will inherit your super when you die?
• Geared property investing: will the rules change?
• Tax rollback on employee share plans
• Sharemarket update
• Controlling passwords!

• Building better business inch by inch
• Valuing small businesses: emerging trends
• Dynamics of trust with clients
• Time to reconsider employee share plans?
• Tackling the debt defaulters
• How the banks view business lending
• The economy & shares
• CGT Concessions: are you in or out?
• Implementing new technology

• Economic update
• How to build lead indicators
• Why you should invest in your people
• Making your presenting more persuasive
• Project-managing a new website
• Buy-sell agreements
• Sharemarket update
• Getting the right IT equipment

• Keeping clear of contract disputes
• The importance of induction and onboarding
• The economy & shares
• Strategic positioning in residential aged care
• Innovation – we can all achieve it
• 5 steps to changing staff attitudes
• Tax update
• When to employ your own IT staff

• Economic update
• Triggers for technology change
• Indirect tax – shifting the paradigm
• How to stop malware destroying your business
• Beware the new anti-bullying laws
• Boosting career prospects in later life
• SMSFs and property investment
• Sharemarket update
• Good manners make money

• Getting smart about payroll
• Will you employ older people?
• How to be a wise mentor
• Acquisition & retention strategies for growth
• Why women leave
• Tools to tune your structure
• Sharemarket update
• Drugs, booze & business

• Federal Budget 2014
• Federal Budget & tax
• How to handle your workload
• 3 keys to building a high performance business
• The Kokoda “walk”: transforming business and life
• How to grow a super-fit business
• Sharemarket update
• Kitchen rules to keep projects on track
• Keeping customers for life – that’s valuable!

• Federal Budget preview
• Goodwill vs Working Capital
• Avoiding friction in family business
• Increasing your resilience intelligence
• Steering clear of insolvency
• Managing people – it takes skill!
• Finding the right structure - trusts
• Sharemarket update
• Working from home: good for business?

• Data feeds: changes ahead for accountants
• Social collaboration tools & your practice
• Paving the way to success
• Beware the new credit reporting rules
• How to avoid an online PR Disaster
• SMSFs, property, & borrowing
• How good is your ownership structure?
• Sharemarket update
• New venture bank: funding innovation

• Introduction
• Economic Update
• Business Succession: why trust distributions fail
• How accounts receivable can improve cash flow
• The power of speakership
• Beware tough new privacy rules
• Keeping up with technological change
• Watchouts on bank loan offers
• The Karma Sutra of share plans
• Sharemarket update
• Secrets to getting the best from people

• Introduction
• Economic update
• The convergence of advisors and accountants
• Finding a grant for your business
• What do accounting clients really want?
• Don’t build a wall around you
• The new era in business communications
• Taking personal insurance seriously
• Small Business CGT Concessions
• Sharemarket update
• Considering life after business

• Introduction
• Economic update
• Tax changes & the road ahead
• Performance Risk Management
• Exchange Traded Funds
• Winning the battle for relevance
• Bringing reliability to staff selection
• Giving effective feedback
• Sharemarket update
• Beating inertia

Business in Focus for November 2013. Packed full of interviews covering a wide range of issues of importance and relevance to you, your practice and your clients.You'll hear expert advice on professional accounting issues, plus a wide range of practical, down-to-earth information that you can put to use immediately to improve your bottom line.