As a cashflow management tool, debt factoring is finding increasing favour amongst Kiwi businesses desperate to fuel growth in a sluggish economy. Glenn Baker investigates the variety of factoring products and how they work. According to the e-font of all knowledge, Wikipedia, factoringโs origins lie in the financing of trade and was underway in England as early as the 14th century.
Patricia Moore reports on how videoconferencing is enabling collaboration over greater distances and bringing down travel costs. iwis in business today are communicating with more people, in more places and in more ways, than ever before. A New Zealand based enterprise may be working with manufacturers in Asia, suppliers in Europe, customers in the US, designers in Queenstown or Warkworth.
IT training and support, when applied properly, can produce remarkable productivity improvements almost overnight. Kevin Kevany reports. ouโve finally accepted that you simply arenโt getting the return you need out of your IT system. All your colleagues are flaunting their productivity gains, their iPads and smartphones. And you know you only use about a third of the functions in Microsoft Office. So what do you do first: get smart or get help? Itโs not quite the โchicken or the egg?โ conundrum.
Say the words โBusiness Interruption Insuranceโ to the majority of New Zealand business owners and youโll probably have them running for the door quicker than you can say tax returns are due. The perception is that Business Interruption Insurance is a policy pulled out by insurance brokers in order to do a little more business. Unfortunately, as weโve seen since Christchurchโs two devastating earthquakes, too many people believe thatโs the truth. Largely though, thatโs because they donโt understand the true purpose of the policy, what effect it can have on saving a business in a crisis, and just how truly crucial it is.
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As a cashflow management tool, debt factoring is finding increasing favour amongst Kiwi businesses desperate to fuel growth in a sluggish economy. Glenn Baker investigates the variety of factoring products and how they work. According to the e-font of all knowledge, Wikipedia, factoringโs origins lie in the financing of trade and was underway in England as early as the 14th century.
Patricia Moore reports on how videoconferencing is enabling collaboration over greater distances and bringing down travel costs. iwis in business today are communicating with more people, in more places and in more ways, than ever before. A New Zealand based enterprise may be working with manufacturers in Asia, suppliers in Europe, customers in the US, designers in Queenstown or Warkworth.
IT training and support, when applied properly, can produce remarkable productivity improvements almost overnight. Kevin Kevany reports. ouโve finally accepted that you simply arenโt getting the return you need out of your IT system. All your colleagues are flaunting their productivity gains, their iPads and smartphones. And you know you only use about a third of the functions in Microsoft Office. So what do you do first: get smart or get help? Itโs not quite the โchicken or the egg?โ conundrum.
Say the words โBusiness Interruption Insuranceโ to the majority of New Zealand business owners and youโll probably have them running for the door quicker than you can say tax returns are due. The perception is that Business Interruption Insurance is a policy pulled out by insurance brokers in order to do a little more business. Unfortunately, as weโve seen since Christchurchโs two devastating earthquakes, too many people believe thatโs the truth. Largely though, thatโs because they donโt understand the true purpose of the policy, what effect it can have on saving a business in a crisis, and just how truly crucial it is.
COVER STORY
Deal appeal
FEATURES
Lifelines of credit
ASEAN and New Zealand: beyond FTAs
Productivity by camera
IT made easy
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