“As a small to medium business I never have the time to really keep watch on my company financial reports. With Finserv that is all taken care of and at the end of the month all the financials are provided to me and explained thoroughly, making that much more time available for me to concentrate on my “knitting”.”
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The year 2011 is nearly done!
For some, it has been a very good year; for others – well, I’m sure they hope it won’t be repeated!
2012 has been forecast by many to be a very significant year, internationally, from a business point of view. Some years back, I read a prophetic view by Robert Kiyosaki [...]
Some years ago, there was a huge rush to create Section 51 PAIA Manuals in order to comply with the deadline laid down by government.
We, at FINSERV, acting on behalf of clients, spent huge amounts of time assisting clients with this, only to have the whole process “moth-balled” by a moratorium. It would seem that [...]
If you’ve been in business for a while, you will (hopefully), from time to time, have sat back and thought about your business; about what you make or sell and how you do it; about your customers and how to grow that base; about how best to utilise your employee skills. Some of you may [...]
I’ve recently had occasion to answer these questions for clients, though for very different reasons.
In the first instance, the client’s business is in serious distress. It’s a vicious circle – on the one hand, turnover has declined, but on the other hand, there are no funds to fund materials and labour for turnover if [...]
Well, it’s been some time since my last update – it’s clear that I’ve forgotten what it takes to build a house and move from one town to another. (And that I’m 28 years older than when I last did it!). We’re both exhausted – physically and emotionally – and I think the worst [...]
Here in South Africa, and even around the world, we’ve just had a number of public holidays in April. Employees, seeing the benefits, decided to take leave in between the various public holidays, effectively giving them two weeks holiday, and effectively reducing the number of productive working days for many businesses to not much more [...]
There are couple of fairly significant developments taking place here in South Africa, which will affect business; and all of which seem to be happening within the next few months.
The first and most important one is the advent of the new Companies Act, which, it appears, will finally happen next month. (though seeing is believing!). The previous [...]
This is the next in the series on some of the causes for business distress. This is one which many business owners never consider.
I think it would be fair to say that most owners of small businesses confuse the finances of their businesses with that of their own personal expenses. Many [...]
For many businesses in South Africa, its that time of year again – the financial year end. The reason for this is mainly because it’s also the end of the income tax year for individuals and many other tax-paying entities.
We have found that, and certainly for many small businesses, this time of the year [...]
I’ve just received a blog from the TomorrowToday website entirtled “Fox or Hedgehog? How will you shape your future?” In view of the fact that I’ve recently been moaning about the information overload, I found the article very helpful, and so I’m taking the liberty of printing it in its entirety, and then adding my [...]
“It is one of the paradoxes of success that the things and ways which got you there are seldom the things that keep you there. (Charles Handy)”
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