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When you’re raising money to grow or start your business and have investors in mind, you need a game plan to get funding. Unless you inherited millions of dollars to invest in your ideas, bootstrapping a start-up won’t cut it. Instead, try this five-step plan to negotiate your way to

With business and virtually all other economic sectors now largely operating with the technological tools of the digital age, companies everywhere have gone, or are currently going paperless. The operational detriments of continuing to collect space-consuming crates of archived paper accounting records and to transmit paper documentation as a way

A South African economy under pressure forced decision makers in the SME market to review the total composition of their organisations. Naturally, salary bills had to be cut, in order to ensure the survival of the business remained top priority. Unfortunately the financial departments were also affected and have often

How advanced payroll systems can help to address Remuneration and HR Management issues. Payroll problems can lead to widespread dissatisfaction among employees, especially if such problems cause delays in payments. Employees may become disgruntled when public holidays cause payment delays. This can also be the case when the person responsible

Many small businesses reliably produce a set of financial statements each year, listing assets and liabilities, revenue and expenses, cash flow and shareholder equity. Often, outsourced bookkeeping services prepare these reports, but the documents are quickly forgotten by business leaders as they focus on the day-to-day challenges of running the

Every kind of business will eventually acquire new equipment and capital assets to continue its operations — manufacturers periodically upgrade their factory machines, service providers require the latest gear to serve their clients, retailers update store and warehouse fixtures, and executive and administrative offices retire out dated furniture, cubicles and

No matter how strong your accounting infrastructure is, you may have weak spots that prevent your business from growing. If you don’t have a solid foundation, you may encounter small and major problems in your payroll, tax and bookkeeping systems. Professional service providers help fill in your weak spots. When

If you are an ardent follower of our social media profiles, you may notice on occasion that we do not limit ourselves to bookkeeping focused topics. Don’t worry; we aren’t having an identity crisis. Instead we believe that it is our responsibility to share everything we can to support small