Insights

As an investor I am always looking for areas of development and themes where great ideas are forming but perhaps main street has not yet caught on or up.

Australia is a beautiful country which has a harsh landscape and difficult weather patterns. Our population to land mass in some areas is low and sparse and can be very lonely for individuals managing the country in these rural and outback areas.

Borrowing the results from recent other Professional Firms’ business surveys, it seems to me that the top concerns for Australian executives (and most probably other parts of the world) are the same in the short term as they are for the medium term. That being, cyber risks, talent recruitment/retention and upskilling a work force for the digital world.

For my Insights advisory article dedicated to the Healthcare sector, I wanted to speak specifically about the challenges many medical and allied health practices currently face.

We have been fielding questions over the last couple of weeks on an Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) decision that occurred at the end of September 2023.

When the time comes to sell your business, how will you go about it? Will you sell privately or via a broker? Or instead of selling, will you dispose your assets and close?

All wise business mentors will tell you to buy or grow a business with the "end game" in mind.

Most of the two million business owners in Australia run their own business to make money, have greater flexibility and freedom, create legacies and reap the financial rewards when the come to sell.

On Tuesday, 13 June, the Palaszczuk Government released their QLD State Budget 2023-24, dedicating initiatives to help continue to support growth across the State’s economy and to support Queenslanders against cost-of-living increases.

On Tuesday, 9th May, Federal Treasurer Hon. Jim Chalmers handed down the 2023/24 Federal Budget, a second delivered by the Albanese Government, providing an outlook into the Government's priority to create a "responsible and sustainable" economic strategy, in the face of continued inflation, rising cost-of-living, and global volatility.

The timing for owning and operating a Professional Services firm is now - it always is. A 2017 Australian Financial Review article reasoned that Australia was fast-becoming a Professional Services nation - with the sector reflecting the greater business sentiment found across a broad range of industries.