Boosting Your Bottom Line from the Top

Selling more of the same stuff to the same people doesn’t always deliver a profit.  Consider boosting your profit by an[...]

7 Key Financial Drivers of Profit and Cash Flow

Small Business Owners are constantly grappling with ‘truck loads’ of information.  I ‘d like to sh[...]

MANAGING MARGINS TO INCREASE YOUR PROFITS

Today I’m sharing some insights into better business management with the managing director of Business Building M[...]

Flatten Costs to Fatten Profits

You work hard in your business… but is it delivering the profit you’d like?

In a competitive, price conscious marke[...]

Neck rot - Onion

This fungal problem shows up during storage.  THe top of the bulb around the neck becomes soft and rots.  If conditions are humid, a greyish f[...]

Paterson's Curse - Echium plantagineum

Erect herb to 1m high.

Foliage forming a rosette before running to head.

Flowers purple with a lighter shade[...]

Would you win Gold at the Business Olympics?

Winning Gold at the Olympics requires, among other things, strategy, mind-set and determination, much like succeeding in bus[...]

Snails and Slugs - Class Gastropoda

These animals chew holes in leaves and may completely remove seedlings and other small plants. They leave a slimy trail of mucus wherever they move.

Soft Brown Scale - Coccus Hesperidum

The mature female is 3-5mm long. It is soft, and roughly oval in outline, although all the scales are not exactly the same shape. It is a pale yellow[...]

Where a ‘Financial Roadmap’ will help improve Profit and Cash Flow.
Before the end of financial year is a great time to understand how well your business has performed this pas[...]

5 Tips to protect your business against volatility in 2012

Most successful business people I’ve spoken with believe 2012 will be tough for some business sectors. We’ve heard [...]

12 Trends that Will Define Business in the &ldq[...]

It can be extremely valuable for a business owner to have someone from outside their business, help them to work on the business, as well as in it.  But there are traps for the unwary!
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Service based business can be the most difficult in which to measure profitability.  All kinds of issues can impact the difference between what is charged to a client and the cost of deliver[...]

 'Cloud’ may not be the best[...]

Cloud Commerce - Essential Accountancy for the future