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Best Email Marketing Tactics

Email marketing is one of the most cost-effective and measurable ways of reaching your customers, however, making your email stand out in a crowded inbox can be difficult. Read on to find out how to optimise your email marketing while keeping your content fresh and...

How to Keep your Business Sale Ready

Are you thinking of selling your business? If you are, it is important to remember the importance of keeping your business sale ready in order to maximise your return. Some of the ways you can keep your business fit for sale include: Ensuring that your premises is...

Misconceptions of the Cost Plus Contract

A cost plus contract is a contract commonly used in the building industry that allows for payment of direct costs of the work (e.g. labour and materials) to a set limit plus an agreed percentage or fixed sum (sometimes referred to as the “builder’s fee”). Such a...

Bankruptcy Act vs Corporation Act

Both the Bankruptcy Act 1966 and Corporations Act 2001 were introduced at different times with different objectives in mind. Over the years a number of inconsistencies have grown between them, some examples of which will be provided below. Acting as Company Director...

ATO and United States to share bank information

Is your Information Being Shared? The ATO has recently declared it has undertaken its first automatic sharing of bank information with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This has resulted in over 30,000 financial accounts worth over $5 billion being provided to...

Board Minutes: What you Need to Know

Are hard copies of board minutes required to be kept? Nowadays, with all the technological advances many are asking whether companies can keep records of minutes electronically (e.g. PDF version). According to section 251A(1) of the Corporations Act 2001 (‘the Act’),...

Director Liability: Failing to Pay Super

There is an increasing amount of employees, especially those closing in on retirement, looking to salary sacrifice part of their wages to superannuation. Usually this is done to not only increase their retirement funds, but to also take advantage of taxation...

Workplace Bullying

Workplace bullying is repeated and unreasonable behavior directed towards a worker or a group of workers that creates a risk to health and safety. Such behaviour is highly destructive and can cause emotional distress that is potentially detrimental to achieving...