Taking time with your finance decisions and application at the start can save you time down the track and ensure that you get a successful outcome and the best possible deal. Here are a few things to consider and questions to ask when applying for finance.

Why do you need finance? – Know clearly what your need is and carefully consider the different ways to achieve it. Internal funding is the cheapest way to finance a project, follow [ More ]

Time is certainly travelling quickly this year as we watch the economic and political machinations play out before us. One question people are certainly focused on at the moment is the likely result in November.

Personally I believe that the market will have a lot of effect on its own destiny and that the future after the election will be driven more by the holistic impact of many factors rather than one single decision. One fact thoug [ More ]

Small business owners can now sack themselves and pay themselves a redundancy payout after a winning case in the Victorian Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

A director her husband and their son were all directors of a family business. The Company is a main contractor for an entertainment company (“The Contractor”) to install and servicing of satellite dishes.

The Company engaged 40 to 50 sub-contractors and employed between s [ More ]

Thanks to all those that provided feedback on our first issue which will enable us to continue to enhance the newsletter. We are for the moment continuing with the eco paper trial and will reassess its effectiveness after the first few issues. Thank you to all those that congratulated us on this move.

I recently had the opportunity to attend a budget briefing presented by the PM, Hon John Howard MP. The conversations at this function s [ More ]

Voluntary Administration (“VA”) is an instrument introduced by parliament in 1993 by which an insolvent company or soon to be insolvent company can enter into a temporary safety zone from the clutches of creditors. The goal of Parliament was to provide for the business, property and affairs of an insolvent company to be administered in a way that:

(a) maximises the chance of the company, or as much as possible of its business, to c [ More ]

Author: Fiona Buffini

Source: The Australian Financial Review

Date: Wednesday 16 May 2007

A former auditor of HIH and former partner of Arthur Anderson has made an enforceable promise to ASIC that he will not “sign any audit reports until after June 2007 and not sign the first five audits he undertakes after that until they have been reviewed by a registered auditor approved by ASIC” (AFR, 18/05/2007).

Mr Pye a [ More ]