accounting

Making Sense of Employment Categories

Wednesday, September 24th, 2025

Full Time & Part Time – Permanent  Full-time & Part-Time employees are classified as permanent staff whose employment has no fixed end date—they continue until either they or their employer decide to terminate it. Typically, “full-time” involves working 30 hours or more per week and part-time less than, although there’s no statutory minimum. These employees are entitled to…

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Livestock Alert 2025

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Consider your livestock election choices carefully as you look at this year’s trends, factoring in whether your herd numbers have increased, and your longer-term intentions. Dairy values saw significant increase across both female and male classes. Strong commodity prices for dairy products drove strong demand for dairy cattle. A Mixed Age Dairy cow now has…

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Why a Business Plan is essential for your business

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025

A Business Plan isn’t just a document, it’s a powerful tool that sets you up for success. If you haven’t dusted yours off in a while (or never had one to begin with), now’s the perfect time to get started. So, what’s the point of a business plan? 1. Keeps You on Track A business…

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Latest COVID-19 Updates and Information in NZ

Friday, March 27th, 2020

Update 3/04/2020 Payroll System Providers Each payroll provider will provide details on how to process your payrun during this period of Covid-19 Wage and Leave subsidies – but if you are still confused, you can contact the office. Xero Payroll Smart Payroll MYOB Payroll Thankyou Ace Payroll   *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Update 30/03/2020:   Latest Updates from…

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MYOB AccountRight update

Monday, October 14th, 2019

To ensure your MYOB AccountRight is performing at its best, MYOB only let the most recent versions work online. If you are still using AccountRight 2019.1 you will need to update to the latest AccountRight version before 7 November, 2019 to keep working online. You will no longer have access to your company file if…

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2019 Budget Overview

Friday, May 31st, 2019

The Government delivered its first Wellbeing Budget on 30 May 2019. In line with its strong focus on social policy, the mental health sector, child wellbeing and social welfare all gained significant increases in spending. The Wellbeing Budget focuses on five priority areas: taking mental health seriously improving child wellbeing supporting Māori and Pasifika aspirations…

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