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The traditional festive holiday season is likely to be a little different this year, but one thing is likely to remain the same – the temptation to spend and the post-Christmas budget hangover. Last year Australians spent about $1000 each for Christmas on presents,...

December and summer are finally here, along with a renewed sense of optimism that strict lockdown measures will ease by Christmas. It’s been a tough year, but once again Australians have proved extremely resilient. We wish all our clients and their families a relaxed...

Checking emails late into the night, reaching for your phone before you’ve even had breakfast to start your working day, the ‘lunch break’ that involves a Zoom meeting - the lines between our work lives and our personal lives have never been blurrier. While there are...

The COVID-19 pandemic is raising some interesting questions for small business employers in relation to their Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) liabilities. With many employees working from home, common employee benefits are often not being supplied, while some employers are...

When it comes to decision making, we don’t always get it right. It is human nature to fall for several behavioural traps when making everyday decisions and also when trying to predict the future. Even the smartest people can succumb to their own biases when forming...

November is here and it’s shaping up as a big month at home and abroad. As the Melbourne Cup field burst out of the gates on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank is widely tipped to announce a cut in the cash rate. And then there’s the US election on Wednesday (Australian time),...

COVID-19 is resulting in significant disruption to well-established business paradigms, impacting businesses, sectors and stocks across the board. However as Albert Einstein once said “in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”. That certainly rings true in 2020 as...

Kate Golder, Head of Wealth and Accounting, was recently featured in Professional Planner, giving her insights in to the industry and her journey in financial planning. "Clients trust advisers with their finances, so while numbers matter, it needs to be explained...

October 2020 October is here and it’s shaping up to be a busy month. All eyes were on Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s second budget, delayed by five months due to the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was designed to chart a course out of...

On Tuesday 6 October, the Federal Government handed down its Budget for the 2020–21 financial year. With the economic impacts of Coronavirus pushing Australia into recession for the first time in nearly three decades, the Federal Government have announced significant...

When the inflation rate fell into negative territory in the June quarter, it was so unusual it begged the question of what this means for the economy. Are we facing deflation or even stagflation and what is the difference? In the June quarter the annual inflation...

It’s September and spring is finally here. This is always a wonderful time to get out in the garden or in nature, on foot or on your bike, even if travel restrictions mean we need to stay closer to home this year. The recent company reporting season for the year or...