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Read more Expenses,Your Business A Brief Guide to Claimable Entertainment Expenses Here’s some helpful information about what you can tax claim and how much. If you you'd like to see the complete set of rules,... Read more Cash and profit,Financial Statements,Income Tax,Tax (Not) Paying Tax Nobody likes paying tax at the best of times, and let’s face it, it hasn’t been the best of times recently. We Beanies use our... Read more Cash and profit,Income Tax,Tax When does the IRD charge penalties and interest? You may be wondering if, why, and when the IRD charges interest and penalties. Well, they do have a method to what appears to... Read more Your Business Independent Earner Tax Credit - what is it and how do I get it? What is Independent Earner Tax Credit? This is a tax credit available to you if you earn between $24,000 and $48,000 per annum and are... Read more Xero,Your Business Xero Helps Contractors Get Paid We work with a lot of building contractors operating small and medium sized businesses, and many of them are now using Xero. We hear it... Read more Goods and Services Tax (GST),Your Business Buying a second hand asset We quite often get asked if you can claim back the GST when buying a second hand asset for your business from someone that isn’t... Read more Your Business What Happens if You’re Injured and Self Employed? You’re covered by ACC, right? Well, not necessarily, or at least, not at the level you might imagine. We have recently seen a case... Read more Xero,Your Business All You Need To Know About GST Registration What Does GST Registration Mean? Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a tax on most goods and services in New Zealand, most imported goods, and... Read more Cash and profit,Xero,Your Business Where did my profit go? You're looking from the Profit and Loss Statement to your bank balance, back to the Profit and Loss Statement, and wondering where your money... Read more Your Business Being a Contractor - What It Means and Some Common Pitfalls What does being a contractor mean? You are self-employed You can choose what work to do, when and depending on the sector, where you... Read more Beany,Your Business Switching Accountants Quite often we stay with service providers that we’re just not that happy with - because the perceived effort of change is too much.... Read more Growth and Improvement,Your Business Why you should prepare a cash flow forecast A cash flow forecast is a financial road map, which attempts to predict all the cash movements in and out of your bank account... Read more Your Business The Most Important Elements for your Website Having a website is all but a requirement for small business owners. Unfortunately, for many, it can seem like an overwhelming process. With all... 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As a business owner, you need to be continually improving; as legendary business analyst Peter Drucker... Read more Customer,Growth and Improvement Why Customer Reviews Are the Secret Weapon to Grow Your Business Any successful and growing business depends on acquiring new customers. Businesses that get new customers at a lower cost than competitors are at a... Read more Manage,Your Business Why It’s Harder to Be a Small Business Owner than a Big Business Manager Key Points: You can lose your house You can face public humiliation You are not insulated by public money or banking support There is... Read more Manage,Your Business When Business Partners Separate or Divorce This, unfortunately, comes up quite regularly as a question to our help desk so we thought an article on it might be handy. This article... Read more Cash and profit Financial Drivers It has been said that in business, it pays to know your numbers. But what does that mean? “The Numbers” are the critical drivers of... Read more Your Business Why we should care about small business As a nation, we should care far more about small business and their place in our economy. Small business owners have been threatened by... Read more Employees Why is it so hard to find the perfect person? We’re not talking about the perfect person in life (that’s a different blog!), but the perfect person for your organisation. This might be a strange... Read more Employees Key Business Decisions - People Beany looks after thousands of small businesses all across New Zealand. We are working between our clients, the banks, the IRD and business advisers... Read more Cash and profit Key Business Decisions - Cash Making decisions when there is a high degree of uncertainty is a challenge. How can you plan and decide when there are so many... Read more Cash and profit,Your Business Small Business Loans As a small business owner wanting to borrow money from the government, you will be asked by the IRD whether your business is viable... Read more Growth and Improvement,Manage Am I Investment Ready? When you’ve considered your investment options and thought about your route to getting investment, you have to think about being investment ready. There are... Read more Manage,Your Business How to Manage External Risk in Your Business The coronavirus is the latest reminder that external events can occur and severely impact your business without warning. By their nature, you cannot plan... Read more Growth and Improvement,Manage,Your Business What are your Capital Raising Options? We have covered the topic of raising money for business in our eBook, Cash Light in a Rich World, in some detail. However, as... Read more Tips Is it under $1,000? Yes? Buy it before 31 March! Everyone gets confused about what assets are, what depreciation means and when is the best time to buy business assets from a tax point... Read more Business Structure,Your Business I’m a Sole Trader - Should I Restructure My Business to a Company? Restructuring a business in New Zealand is straight forward enough to do but have you considered if you need to in the first place?... Read more Manage,Your Business Shareholding Changes NZ - Take Care! It's vital for your business to understand the implications of shareholding changes in New Zealand. Life can throw you curve balls and sometimes you can... Read more Tips,Your Business Trading on Amazon - and down at the local farmers market! Lots of Kiwi businesses either start off down at the local farmers market - or dip their toes into the world of Trading on... Read more Growth and Improvement,Your Business Productivity Hacks In the doom and gloom of slumping business confidence, let’s spread a little light. The government keeps talking about improving New Zealand’s productivity but... Read more Income Tax,Your Business Air BnB Income and how to handle It - Blog from Jenny Marklew, Beany Lead Accountant The Tax and GST Consequence of Airbnb As Airbnb (or other private property rental sites like bookabach*) are becoming more popular the tax consequence of... Read more Xero How (and why) to Reconcile your Xero Bank Account Xero is great bookkeeping software which allows you to keep up to date accounting records. Every day all the bank transactions are shown in... Read more Your Business Top 3 Tips for Increasing Your Sales Often people go into business because they are passionate about what they do, what they make and the service they provide. It can be... Read more Cash and profit,Your Business 3 Tips for Making More Money in your Business Most small business owners are confronted by a huge array of responsibilities: sales, customer management, recruitment, admin, cash flow and more. Sometimes it’s hard to... Read more Cash and profit,Your Business Top 3 Tips for increasing your business profit Beany has released its top 3 tips for increasing sales so let’s look at the other side of the equation - the top 3... Read more Your Business Buying a Business, not a Job Five Practical Tips For Buying a Business Whether you are buying a business for the first time, or adding another one to your empire, it’s... Read more Customer,Your Business Understanding your customers - Telling isn't selling Guest post from Julie Kidman, MindStep.co.nz Relevancy One of the keys to sales success in today’s information over-loaded marketplace is relevancy. People are generally too busy getting... Read more Expenses,Financial Statements,Motor Vehicle,Your Business Myth Busting - Assets Buy vs Lease Myth Busting Around Asset Purchases and Operating Leases Quite a few misconceptions float around the question of whether to lease or buy an asset for... Read more Income Tax,Your Business Are we trying to scare you with land tax issues? Yes! Be afraid, be very afraidAsk any tax specialist and they’ll have a horror story in their ‘land tax gone bad’ file. I’ve seen more... Read more Your Business Call yourself an entrepreneur? I saw this funny little infographic entitled "Why people become entrepreneurs" and had to laugh. Not just the icon "with a criminal streak" -... Read more Cash and profit,Your Business Our Top Tips For Business Profit Improvement Every business is different, but every business owner wants more profit. Here are our top tips for taking a fresh look at your business... Read more Your Business The Beany Journey From Taupo to Australia – a work in progress! It all started out as a vague idea, buzzing in my brain, about how accountants could... Read more Cash and profit,Your Business Top 3 Tips For Making Money I’m always a bit worried when my clients say things like: I’m not in it for the money, I just like the lifestyle, There’s... Read more
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