Archive for March 2016

Well it had to happen. We were caught by one of those vicious phishing attacks. A simple click on a malicious email set it all in motion. Easy to do but with somewhat dire consequences. It allowed access to the particular email account. Messages and contacts deleted and the malicious email sent to the contacts…

Who doesn’t love a bit of Shakespeare? One of my favourite lines is from Hamlet: Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, Whatever your business, if you advance credit to customers you are a “lender” of sorts.  Clients are the equivalent of “friends” – often hard to…

Follow these steps and you can be one of the 20 per cent of accounting firms that successfully implement business advisory services in a reasonable time frame. Many accounting firms would like to offer business advisory services, and some make a tentative start in the right direction but in my experience only around 20 per…