This post is by Giles Ellis, an experienced business coach and Director at GECA Chartered Accountants. If you need help unlocking your business potential, then Giles can help. Business success and sports success are often down to one thing – good planning. Beyond their obviously talented players, the All Blacks incredible record of success in […]
This post is by Giles Ellis, an experienced business coach and Director at GECA Chartered Accountants. If you need help unlocking your business potential, then Giles can help. I’m sure not many viewers were aware as they watched the opening ceremony for the Rio Olympic Games on Saturday that there are more coaches than athletes […]
Businesses using a single person to cover the accounting and finance function role are exposed to a number of risks, many of which can have a material impact on business operations, even jeopardising the business’s existence. In this post I will talk about how an outsourced finance solution can improve your business performance. […]
As a small business owner with limited resources, you need to focus on the important stuff – growing sales, increasing margins, building your team – the things that only you can do. What you don’t want to be doing is spending those precious hours doing things that someone with more skill and expertise could do […]
Change is not coming, it’s here. And it’s tough. But hiding one’s head in the sand won’t change the fact that everything we know and understand is about to change in ways we will struggle to comprehend let alone deal with. So let’s accept that change is painful but necessary and embrace it knowing we […]
One mans perspective on technology and the changing landscape in the accounting and business world and beyond. Wow! “In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the […]
This post is by Giles Ellis, Director at GECA Chartered Accountants based in Newmarket. Let’s face it – no one likes paying to get tax returns done, especially when there is a set of financial statements to be done as well. And at GECA Chartered Accountants, where our purpose is to provide affordable expertise with […]
I meet many people who are trustees of other people’s trusts. Generally these trusteeships are taken on by well-meaning friends or family who have limited, if any, understanding of the obligations and even more importantly – the trustee liabilities.
Andy Smith is the CEO and founder of Construct Brands Limited, manufacturers of the Wolf Energy chocolate bar, a revolutionary new confectionary product that was launched into the New Zealand market in January this year. Andy talks about his experience working with Giles Ellis and GECA Chartered Accountants. When it came to choosing an […]
Do you have a family trust? It’s more than likely with an estimated 1m+ trusts set up in the 1970s and 1980’s to avoid inheritance taxes. However, since these were abolished in in 1993, many people are considering if they still need to have a family trust. For a start, a trust needs to […]
