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We are sometimes asked, “What path have you followed to arrive here, at the point where you apparently know nothing about my business, and yet say that you can help me to improve its [...]

The author of one of the all-time Great Business Books (Good to Great) has done it again. Jim Collins has now looked at how and why even the best companies can crash and burn, and he provides [...]

 It’s interesting to watch the fallout from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and see that my clients in small and medium businesses are doing better than “OK”.  Apart from those in retail, [...]

Time to read this article: 2.5 mins)Two of Australia’s multi-million dollar Managed Investment Schemes (MISs) are in liquidation, partly because of a mistake by the Tax Office who wrongly* [...]

(Time to read this article: 5 mins) OK, so I used a lurid headline to get your attention and now that I have it here’s the real headline: Australian Banks Are Failing Small Business – and [...]

(Time to read this article: Less than 1 min) Check your Aged Debtors Report weekly (as opposed to “weakly”) in the current climate. Ring anyone who is overdue on the day they become overdue. Set [...]

Recently I sat down with Steven, an accountant at the top of his game whose accounting team solves the tax side of the business equation and whose financial planners grow those new profits into [...]

Alexa Bowen is co-founder and CEO of BES Information Technology Systems, one of the largest IT resellers in Queensland. She and her husband Ray Bowen started the company 21 years ago with a [...]

Our Business Clients We are Business Improvement Specialists™. We facilitate improved performance for people in business so that they acquire better management skills and enjoy bigger profits, [...]

Are You A Company Director? Many of even the smallest businesses these days organise themselves as an incorporated entity – usually a proprietary limited company – and appoint [...]