Small Business Tax Blog by Fletcher Tax Accountants

We dedicate a great amount of resource to protecting and growing our careers and business – but how much time do we place on protecting ourselves within our relationships? Read on for some ideas you can apply within your relationship.

Become friends with your numbers and suggestions for how! Guest post kindly contributed by Kate Groom of Starfish Consulting. [...]

On the hunt for an accountant? The ”Must Ask” questions when considering a new accountant.

The ATO has recently posted a real case scenario showing the extent of their data matching capabilities (and a result thereof). The below is a copy of this recent posting. Even if you do not have too many cash transactions, this may prove to be an interesting read!

Have a look over some of the great end of financial year tips! Will any of these apply to your business? [...]

What were some of the things you were advised when you first started or advice you would leave to someone in hindsight? Here are the 10 things that come to my mind [...]

Not all business is good business. Keep certain questions in mind to prevent unnecessary complications in the long (or short) term! [...]

We all all time poor. We are constantly bombarded or choose to increase our knowledge of what’s going on within our community, industry or world at large. Emotional, financial and educational headers seems to win in the end. What do you think of these header examples? [...]

Recently I’ve been thinking more and more about etiquette within relationships – specificaly business to client relationships.

At what point does business become personal? Or at what point should business become more personal?

It seems that this question depends on your own sense of limits and willingness to share. [...]

An article kindly contributed by Gina Lofaro aka ‘the wordmistress’

Are you a numbers person or a words person? … and does it affect the way you do business?

Left brain, right brain, we all operate more on one side of our cranium than the other. Some of us are more adept at handling complex mathematical equations whilst others of us are more proficient at articulating things verbally.

For me – a writer, copywriter, some-time stand-up comedienne – words are my easiest tools to work with. But put me in front of a pad of numbers, and I’m prone to panicking. Once upon a time, I was accused of not doing my best where my accounting paperwork was concerned. This was entirely unfair since I was doing my best, but my best was far, far inferior to his best paperwork efforts.

So I posed an interesting challenge. “How about you write for me, a 1,000-word article on any topic of your choosing? It has to be 100% grammatically correct with no spelling errors or typos and it has to be interesting!”

Well, he just laughed. At first. [...]