A LOT of little deductions can add up to a big refund. Here are some commonly overlooked ones — even your dog could be deductible. https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/tax/eight-secret-tax-hacks-for-small-business/news-story/4edc8edc6c9bccae126441516f8fe860#bottom-share A LOT of little deductions can add up to a big refund. My article which syndicated across the News.Com group in June 2017
Author Archives: James Solomons
Embracing Change For Start-up Success
It’s human nature to dislike change. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – right? Why disrupt a process, or do things differently? Usually the answer is that the process is, in fact, broken – or could be massively improved – but we’ve become too complacent to notice. This is particularly apparent to start-ups providingContinue reading “Embracing Change For Start-up Success”
Featured – What you need to do before 30 June 2017
MORE IN money Frank Chung YOU know what not to do this tax time. Now here are all the things you need to get done in the next week-and-a-half before June 30, according to three tax experts.
What the next generation of accountants really wants
Read Time: 4m 55s Millennials are often portrayed in the media as entitled, frequent job switchers and interested primarily in monetary gain. But the reality doesn’t quite match up. The next generation of accountants want to be exactly that. Accountants. They studied accounting because it interests them, not because it is a stable career theyContinue reading “What the next generation of accountants really wants”
Did desktop DIY accounting software nearly destroy an industry ?
Read Time: 3m 55s Sometimes you find it’s the simple systems that work the best. Back in the day, manual ledgers were the accounting hero for most SMEs. The retro green ledger book, ruled up and reconciled each period, may have been labour intensive, but it worked, pure and simple. More importantly, the regularity ofContinue reading “Did desktop DIY accounting software nearly destroy an industry ?”
Better SMEs create better accountants: the benefit of working with your clients in the Cloud
Read Time: 3m 30s Back in the day of desktop accounting, both clients and their accountants were somewhat disconnected from the true financial events taking place behind the scenes of their company. SMEs ran their business based on gut feel and measured their success on how much cash was in the bank. But that isContinue reading “Better SMEs create better accountants: the benefit of working with your clients in the Cloud”
Why cloud technology is an accountant’s best sales tool
Read Time: 4m 15s It’s a beautiful thing when an accountant and their client build a working relationship that is efficient, productive and mutually beneficial. But it hasn’t always been that easy to achieve. Prior to the Cloud, accountants spent a prohibitive amount of time managing the flow of client data between desktop programs andContinue reading “Why cloud technology is an accountant’s best sales tool”
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