Keeping the cash flowing over summer
With the New Zealand summer officially here, now is the time for small-to-medium businesses to prepare for what is notoriously an unstable...
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Fundtap helps businesses grow, improves cashflow, with invoice finance
Are cashflow pinch points hindering the growth of your business? Now there is a fast, trustworthy alternative to traditional bank lending....
$1M seed capital for agtech, foodtech startups
Business accelerator Sprout is back for 2021, looking for cutting edge start-ups in the agtech and foodtech sectors to register for...
Kiwi wine-tech startup raises $2 million
Dunedin-based tech startup Winely has closed a capital funding round of $2 million to help its mission of bringing revolutionary technology...
2020: complications, resilience and moving forward
Emma Murphy delivers some timely words of advice to SME owners, including how to manage finances in order to navigate...
Fast, easy, flexible capital for your business
In a New Zealand banking first, Kiwibank has launched Fast Capital, a digital platform that enables automated lending decisions for...
Insolvency: how to future-proof your business under Covid
During a period of heightened business insolvency Steven Holden offers some advice for New Zealand businesses looking...
SOS Business injects more funds
Under Lockdown 2.0 SOS Business voucher sales hit $2 million; the site teams with US investor inKind to help inject $5 million into small...
New platform addresses capital investment for businesses
Providing a completely new way for companies to manage compliance tasks, and a user-friendly hub for investors to view and interact with...
There is currency in certainty
GoFi8ure executive director Lisa Martin shares her reflections on New Zealand’s post-Covid business landscape – including the lockdown...
Economic stability and the Covid financial crisis
Steven Holden weighs up the business landscape as firms continue to grapple with the fallout from the global...
Need tax certainty? Try a binding ruling
For business owners a binding ruling from IRD has become a commonly used means of obtaining certainty as to how a transaction will be...
Giving client discounts won’t help you beat the recession
Providing discounts to clients might sound like a logical solution to ease their Covid-19-induced pain, but Ben Paul argues that it’s the...
Managing ‘the books’ 2020-style
Lisa Martin, Executive Director of GoFi8ure, discusses all things accounting and bookkeeping, and shares some best practice management...
Bookkeepers get behind SME recovery
The bookkeeping industry has firmly positioned itself within the SME market as trusted advisors, says the Institute of Certified New...
Covid-19 and tax matters: guidance for business owners
Inland Revenue will write-off any penalties and interest for businesses unable to pay taxes on time due to the impact of...
Time to flush out some margin
Paul Allen explains a step-by-step process for looking at your existing customer contracts as the quickest path to recovering significant...
Holidays Act clarity urgently needed for businesses
Payroll provider FlexiTime is looking forward to the upcoming release of the findings from the latest Holidays Act taskforce review, saying...
Anti-money laundering: what you need to know
AML/CFT enforcement action is on the rise – are you caught under New Zealand’s anti-money laundering legislation? Lloyd Kavanagh and...
Streamlined business invoicing a step closer
Streamlined payment practices are a step closer for Kiwi businesses with the formal launch of New Zealand’s e-Invoicing framework. Small...
Fintech helping NZ be a global digital nation
New Zealand is becoming more and more a digital nation and Kiwis expect transactions to be seamless and painless, says FintechNZ general...
Female investors support Beany expansion
Online accounting platform Beany has secured more than $1.5 million for its offshore expansion, thanks to the support of women's...
Online store fraud protection
Looking to protect your online store from fraudulent orders? Daniel Williams explains how you can succeed, using his own personal lessons....
How public and school holidays impact small businesses
Do short weeks mean longer days for business owners? Using April as an example, Craig Hudson examines how public and school holidays impact...
Alternative finance options for SMEs
With cashflow an ongoing concern for business owners, Adrienne Church takes a look at the finance options provided by today’s...
SMBs warned to brace for business finance crunch
While a capital gains tax is no longer an issue, SMBs are still confronting the prospect that securing business finance is set to get a lot...
Provider: No need to be concerned about payday filing
The countdown to payday filing is on, but a Wellington payroll software provider wants employers to know that they don’t need to be...
Flexitax® by TMNZ pay provisional tax when you want, not when IRD tells you to
TMNZ is an IRD-approved tax payment provider which has been operating in New Zealand since...
It’s the final countdown
As this magazine issue ‘hits the streets’ it’s just two months until the IRD’s Payday Filing deadline. Will businesses and payroll...
More than a third of SMEs must tackle serious debt
At least a third to half of New Zealand’s small businesses that turn over less than a million dollars every year are struggling with...