Edition 445 – Courage
You’ve been in business 10 years. Maybe longer. You know what it takes to make your business tick over. Get the work in the door, do it as efficiently and effectively as possible. Send it back out again.
Edition 444 – Winning At The Slowest Speed
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If you know me, you know that I love motor sport. I’m probably a little less passionate than I once was, and don’t watch it as much as I have done in the past, however it’s still my number one sport.
Edition 443 – Listen Up
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When I’m working with our clients, I love it when I’m right! Not because my ego is severely lacking. It means we have a breakthrough…a real “a-ha” moment, from the client.
Edition 442 – Ready, Set, No!
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With the work we undertake with one of our great clients, they send us their Dashboard, each day, that summarises what has happened in the business, that day. It contains key financial and non-financial data, which they transpose from their in-house software system, and generally provide some commentary about the day’s happenings in the business.
Edition 441- Stupid Corporate Decisions
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One of our great clients is in the retail space, specialising in health care. They’re a niche business and the owners not only have incredible knowledge of the industry, the products and their clientele, but are also passionate about it.
Edition 440 – The Purposeful Shift
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One of the things that has struck me about small and family business owners, over the years, is how unhappy so many of them are in their business, and in their lives.
Edition 439 – Jumping To Conclusions
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It’s early Monday morning. I’ve stayed up on the Northern Beaches on a Sunday night to make sure I’m fresh for the two days of meetings. They’re great clients and I always like to turn up on or before time, to get a good start on the day and catch up on proceedings since I was last there.
Edition 438 – Ethical Standards
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An accountant is approached by a potential client for help with their compliance matters. The client is late with their prior year’s tax returns and needs things undertaken as soon as possible. The reason for the hurry is not because the authorities are chasing them up. The client needs finance for a property they’re purchasing and, as part of the loan process, copies of most recent tax returns are required. That, in itself, is probably the first warning sign.
Edition 437 – Behind The Numbers
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I have a saying that’s almost become a philosophy – “Numbers are reasons in disguise”. I’ve long subscribed to the fact that the financial statements, nor the accounting systems maintained by most small and family businesses, tell the full story of what’s happening inside of that business.
Edition 436 – The Vault
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In my e-book “How to Build a Vault for your Family Business“, I make mention of the fact that a lot of what happens inside of a small or family business, is stored in the heads of the business owner. It’s not documented. Often, there’s no system in place. Invariably, whilst the owner may know what’s going on, others in the business, and inside the family, don’t.