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5th Nov, 2021
You’ve Got To Start It Now - This Afternoon!
You’ve Got To Start It Now - This Afternoon!
Accountant's Minute 295
“Because Your Greatest Challenge At The Moment Is Getting Good People To Work With” Andrew Geddes, Australian Accounting Legend, Chair for 10 years of Greencross Ltd, a company which developed over…
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12th Feb, 2021
Using Research & Development To Add Value To Companies!
Using Research & Development To Add Value To Companies!
Accountant's Minute 259
Research and development is an area that many accountants have very little experience in, but it is an area that many small business and medium-sized clients are interested in having a clear understa…
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5th Aug, 2020
Fund Raising is a Great Business Advisory Service
Fund Raising is a Great Business Advisory Service
Accountant's Minute 243
The latest developments in Victoria, where Level 4 restrictions have now been imposed in Melbourne and Level 3 in Regional Victoria, have really highlighted the challenges that can confront businesse…
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3rd Dec, 2019
Grants - Are You Proactively Alerting Your Clients
Grants - Are You Proactively Alerting Your Clients
Accountant's Minute 217
Grants are a great introduction to value-added services that accountants can provide to small businesses and medium-sized enterprises. Recent reports by: Commonwealth Bank – “Accounting Market P…
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9th Apr, 2018
Grant Identification - WIN with SMEs
Grant Identification - WIN with SMEs
SMEs love grants. Why? It gives them access to services at 50% of the normal cost.
Over $3 billion per annum is made available by the Australian, State and Territory governments for small/medium enterprises and businesses with turnovers up to $50 million through a range of grants…
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19th Mar, 2018
Big 6
Big 6
Welcome to Accountants Minute. This week I want to talk to you about the “Big 6” – the “Big 6” products that we have on offer for you. Products about which we believe your small/medium enterprise cl…
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2nd Mar, 2018
What Type of Services do your Clients Want?
What Type of Services do your Clients Want?
Welcome to Accountants Minute. Surveys conducted by major companies over the last 15 years have all indicated that 75% to 80% of SMEs are looking for a wider range of commercial services to be provi…
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19th Sep, 2017
Accountants – Advising clients of Government Grant is Good Business!
Accountants – Advising clients of Government Grant is Good Business!
WHY? Because SMEs love Government Grants, they are able to access services that in the normal course of events they might not have worried about, but when they can access these services for around a…
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14th Sep, 2017
Accountants and Business Advisors – SMEs want “Someone” to provide “Business Advisory Services”!
Accountants and Business Advisors – SMEs want “Someone” to provide “Business Advisory Services”!
From my point of view it is preferable that the “someone” be an accountant. Surveys conducted over the last fifteen years by MYOB, CCH and various other organisations have all identified that a sign…
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25th Jul, 2017
Accountants, How to Create Value-Add for your Clients
Accountants, How to Create Value-Add for your Clients
Accountants, how to create value-add for your clients is undoubtedly one of the biggest questions you need to answer at the beginning of the 2017/18 financial year. We suggest that, in the first ins…
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19th Jul, 2017
Accountants, You Need More Than Marketing Gimmicks in a Business Advisory Services’ Package
Accountants, You Need More Than Marketing Gimmicks in a Business Advisory Services’ Package
Accountants, you need more than marketing gimmicks in a Business Advisory Services’ Package.  Whilst marketing and selling skills are important attributes for accountants who are looking to diversify…
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11th Jul, 2017
Accountants, Government Grants Assist in the Delivery of Business Advisory Services for your Clients
Accountants, Government Grants Assist in the Delivery of Business Advisory Services for your Clients
Hello, I’m Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS and ESS BASIP.  Welcome to Accountants Minute. Accountants; government grants assist in the delivery of business advisory services for your…
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5th Jul, 2017
Accountants, Small/Medium Enterprises Want “Valued-Added” Services
Accountants, Small/Medium Enterprises Want “Valued-Added” Services
Hello, I’m Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS and ESS BASIP.  Welcome to Accountants Minute. Accountants, small/medium enterprises want value added services.  Services that your clients…
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27th Jun, 2017
Accountants, There Are Plenty of Challenges in 2017/18
Accountants, There Are Plenty of Challenges in 2017/18
Hello, I’m Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS and ESS BASIP.  Welcome to Accountants Minute. Accountants, there are plenty of challenges in 2017/18 and you probably don’t need me t…
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6th Jun, 2017
Sourcing Grants for SMEs Is Good Business Sense!
Sourcing Grants for SMEs Is Good Business Sense!
Good for your small/medium enterprise clients who want to access grants so as to improve their business activities with a subsidy from the government. Good for accountants to show your SME clients t…
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27th Dec, 2016
Resolutions for 2017
Resolutions for 2017
I'd like to take this opportunity of wishing you, your colleagues and your families a very Happy Christmas and I hope that 2017 will be very prosperous for you and your business. Over the last six m…
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19th Dec, 2016
Directors' Feedback - Need More Than Taxation Services From Accountants?
Directors' Feedback - Need More Than Taxation Services From Accountants?
What would you learn from 8 hours with a group of company directors?  I had that privilege a couple of weeks ago in a programme sponsored by the Entrepreneurs Programme, part of AusIndustry.  The bri…
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13th Dec, 2016
Business Advisory Services is a Key Product for Accountants to Provide
Business Advisory Services is a Key Product for Accountants to Provide
What services are you going to provide in 2017 which create a WOW factor? Last week we talked about Chief Financial Officer services, Debtors' Management, Personal Property Securities Register Due D…
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12th Oct, 2016
Assistance is Available for Accountants
Assistance is Available for Accountants
Assistance is available for accountants and advisors to help you add value to your clients' businesses.  This is a continuation of the theme on "How can Accountants and Advisors add value to Clients…
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9th Oct, 2016
Where are you now? Why not review your business?
Where are you now? Why not review your business?
It's a great time to conduct a review of your business. Here's a few questions you should be asking: Are you supplying services that your clients want? What do you think your firm is going to look…
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26th Sep, 2016
Want to turn a $2,000 a year client into a $25,000 client?
Want to turn a $2,000 a year client into a $25,000 client?
The Australian government has introduced legislation to assist innovative companies to be able to raise capital.  This legislation, which commenced operations from 1st July 2016, is called the "Early…
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22nd Sep, 2016
Government Grants Could Assist Your Clients
Government Grants Could Assist Your Clients
Hello, I'm Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS BIZTOOLS.  Welcome to Accountants Minute. Today we're going to look at government grants.  Some of the government grants offered by the Australian g…
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20th Jul, 2016
2016/17 - The Year of Business Advisory Services!
2016/17 - The Year of Business Advisory Services!
Welcome to 2016/17, the year of business advisory services. Do you know that the Accounting Market Pulse, produced by the Commonwealth Bank in their December 2015 issue, forecast that the top servic…
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16th Jun, 2016
Accountants and Advisors – Business Evaluation Helps SMEs
Accountants and Advisors – Business Evaluation Helps SMEs
Do you know that accountants/advisors have been identified as the trusted adviser for small/medium enterprises, to offer a range of non-compliance services in addition to taxation, to help small/medi…
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17th May, 2016
Accountants – SMEs want you to identify grants for them
Accountants – SMEs want you to identify grants for them
A very common statement that I hear from small/medium enterprises and from some industry consultants is: “The thing that really upsets me is when a competitor receives a grant that I know nothing abo…
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