Small Business Cashflow Scheme update

On 21 March 2022, the Small Business Cashflow Scheme (SBCS) loan amount increased to $20,000 (from $10,000). The scheme was originally introduced to support small to medium businesses and organisations struggling with a loss of revenue due to COVID-19. The eligibility criteria have not changed. Your business must have: no more than 50 full-time equivalent […]

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COVID-19 Financial Support for Businesses

Even though we’ve been here before, it doesn’t seem to make this nationwide Alert Level 4 lockdown any easier to deal with the second time around.  Thankfully Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced last week that the Government has reinstated their Covid-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme and Resurgence Support Payment (RSP).  Businesses that meet the criteria could […]

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Bookkeeper and Accountant Working Well Together

Why Accountants Love It If You Have A Bookkeeper

Do I need an accountant or a bookkeeper? Do they do the same thing? Don’t they work in competition with each other? These are questions that we get asked all the time. To be perfectly honest, accountants love it when you have a bookkeeper. The jobs each profession do are completely different, but do work […]

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Embracing Cloud Accounting

Why You Should Embrace Cloud-Based Accounting

What do clouds, rainbows and accounting have in common? Normally those are three things that you wouldn’t necessarily hear in a sentence together. But cloud-based accounting really can make rainbows appear in your business. And that is why we think you should embrace it wholeheartedly! Let’s face it; if you are self-employed or running your […]

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Accountants Are…

Certain words come tied with connotations, evoke an instant thought reaction, and trigger our minds to conjure up imagery. For example, you can’t hear the word ‘rainbow’ without visualising the full spectrum of colours, and when you hear ‘snuggly’ you might imagine a cat curled up in a blanket by the fire. So what do […]

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The Accountants Plus ‘Next-Year-End’ Prep Kit

Accountants Plus. As the name suggests, we offer more than your average accountancy firm. Saving our clients time, stress, and money is high on the priority list so we go out of our way to help people get their heads around what can sometimes be a complex, confusing part of business ownership. In this particular […]

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