Enterprise Connect Grant for Manufacturing Businesses Enterprise Connect is a Federal Government programme that is available for a number of industries including the Manufacturing industry. The definition of “manufacturing” adopted by the government is:   “The...

Slow Moving Stock - If you have slow moving stock in your business, is it possible to package the slow moving stock with other stock items to sell them as packaged products?   Joint Marketing – Have you explored the opportunities of marketing your...

One of the seven points made in the study into Leadership, Culture and Management Practices of High -Performing Workplaces in Australia, conducted by Christina Boedker of the Australian School of Business, was - "Higher performance is created through quality and...

Small businesses in some parts of Australia, primarily in Western Australia and Queensland and in the mining industry, are achieving considerable growth whilst the rest of the country struggles and in some areas businesses are going backwards financially. This is the...

Business Angels: Angel investor means “An angel investor or angel (also known as a business angel or informal investor) is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity”.  A small but...

In the previous era under the Workchoices legislation, if an employer could point to ‘genuine operational reasons’ for dismissing  an employee (which  covered  most redundancy  scenarios),  they were not  at risk of an unfair dismissal claim.   To avoid the cost...

Job cuts have been making headlines of late, with the likes of ANZ, Westpac and Qantas just some of the major corporations announcing mass redundancies within their workforces.   The end is far from sight. With a strong Australian  dollar at home and ongoing...

There is an insurance product to cover each of the many things that can go wrong in a business, but knowing what can go wrong and what insurance products are available is complex. What risks are there? what insurance do you need? how much should you buy? and who...

Commercialisation Australia has grant funds available to assist companies with turnovers under $10 million, who have developed a new product or service, who wish to bring it to market and require assistance to do so.   Commercialisation Australia has funding...

The fringe benefits tax year ended on 31st March 2012. On that date you should have recorded the odometer reading for all motor vehicles and assembled your information relevant to the preparation of your fringe benefit tax return.   If you wish to have...