Budget 2025: The impact for your small business

On Thursday 22 May, the Minister of Finance, The Honourable Nicola Willis, delivered Budget 2025. Opening her speech, the Minister said: “This is a responsible budget to secure New Zealand’s future. It supports the economic recovery now underway. It also takes a...

Understanding Your Balance Sheet

To understand the financial position of a business at a specific point of time, look at the balance sheet which may also be called the statement of financial position. Together with the Profit and Loss Statement, and possibly other reports such as the Statement of...

What are your business goals for the year ahead?

The beginning of a new calendar year is an excellent time to review last year and reflect on what worked, what didn’t, what you’d like to change and new things you want to implement. Take the time to review the year and acknowledge all that has happened, good, bad or...

Making your business work for you: work/life balance

You started your business to have the freedom of being in charge. But are you actually working harder than ever and drowning in admin, meetings and other demands on your time? Don’t worry, there are ways to get your work/life balance back under control. In this...