Finance
Tips for buying or selling your business
Louis White With the end of the financial year approaching, some businesses will be looking to sell.
Hug-a-Bub goes belly up
Patrick Hatch Here's why the maker of a popular brand of baby carriers has collapsed into administration.
Simple tax time trick
Max Newnham Getting the timing right can be your best friend around tax time, depending on your business.
Seek help early
Kate Carnell Tax debt is just ust like the small leak in the roof that gets worse and worse the longer it's left unrepaired.
Can you really study entrepreneurship?
Alana Christensen Can the real world trials of running a successful business ever be taught at an Australian university?
Cashing in on rising obesity
Sylvia Pennington Suppliers of supersized products and equipment are finding plenty of room to move.
Cafe refuses to be defeated by storm
Alexandra Cain After this week's storm trashed his seaside café John Svinos is now starting the long process to rebuild his business.
When your business isn’t quite legal yet
Bhakthi Puvanenthiran Raising seed funding for a medical cannabis start-up is just half the battle.
Finding a good accountant can be hard
Max Newnham Help. My sister and I are in the due diligence phase of a start-up e-commerce business.
NAB to compete with ultra-fast lenders
Bhakthi Puvanenthiran Online lenders have amped up the pressure on the big banks to move quickly on loans.
FlexiGroup funding Kikka's business loans
James Eyers FlexiGroup CEO Symon Brewis-Weston said the pace of Kikka's growth would be dictated by the performance of its loan book over the next 18 months.
Retail investors allowed to lend to businesses as RateSetter gets approval
James Eyers Retail investors will be able to fund business loans for the first time in Australia after the corporate regulator granted a new licence to the peer-to-peer lending platform RateSetter.
The FBT motor vehicle trap
Max Newnham When can you claim the full deduction of a work vehicle even if its rolled out for private use?
What's the most profitable industry?
Louis White It's not tech and it's not mining. It's something you'd never dream of.
Can your clients really pay?
Adam Courtenay If you want to find out whether you'll end up out of pocket you need these (free) tools.
Good news for business owners
Max Newnham Improved CGT provisions for small entities at this year's federal budget.
Budget 2016: the break business needs
Charlie Wood COMMENT: The Australian economy needs to move beyond building and digging up dirt. To do that it needs modern, competitive policies.
A super budget that helps small business
Max Newnham Although there was less focus on small businesses in this year's budget there were one or two sweeteners for smaller entities.
Veggie gardens and computers: what a tax break means
Bhakthi Puvanenthiran Technology and a veggie patch are all flow-on benefits of this year's budget for one medium-sized firm.
How to claim new tax benefits
Bhakthi Puvanenthiran Scott Morrison's focus on small business means a lower tax rate for even more businesses.
The truth behind small business tax breaks
Michael Pascoe The thing about the pea’n’thimble trick is that if it works once, odds are it will work again.
When contractors are really employees
Max Newnham There has been much in the media over the past 12 months about how big businesses are not paying their workers correctly.
Labor's plan for cheaper loans revealed
Bhakthi Puvanenthiran Labor has announced it will force banks to share consumer data in a move aimed at making finance cheaper and more flexible for small business.
Big businesses need to pay small businesses on time
Kate Carnell Paying staff on time isn't negotiable. The same should go for paying small businesses.
MyTax expands to sole traders
Cara Waters Sole traders and contractors are eligible to use myTax to file their tax returns this year but there is no movement on BAS yet.
Inside the collapse of Jaffle Jaffle
Cara Waters The founder of a chain of toasted-sandwich stores blames high commercial rents and tenant delays for the liquidation of the business.
The facts and myths about tax and small business
Max Newnham For many years there has been a mistaken belief that owning and operating a business through a company provides a major tax benefit to the owners.
The natural order of starting a business
Max Newnham If you are starting a business there are steps you should take to ensure costs count towards tax deductions.
Jack Dorsey: the hipster billionaire
Cara Waters The chief executive and co-founder of Twitter and Square is a billionaire who pays himself $2.75 and is spending his time in Melbourne staying in a tent.
ThinCats gets a $10m debt shot from UK fund
Shaun Drummond Business marketplace lender ThinCats Australia has been given a much needed debt injection of $10 million by UK fund ESF Capital, the new majority shareholder of ThinCats UK.
