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Monday, April 08, 2013
Learn more about investing in a low interest rate environment Choosing how and where to invest your money is often a challenging decision that should not be taken lightly. In the current low interest rate environment, there are some investments you’ll want to avoid and some better choices on where to invest. As you’re a client or a friend of Altus, we are inviting you to  ..
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Friday, March 22, 2013
If you are an employer who has provided benefits to your staff (or their associates) in forms other than salaries and wages, you may be deemed to be providing Fringe Benefits to those staff members and are required to lodge a Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) return. The Fringe Benefits Tax year ends 31 March 2013 and we would like to help ensure you are meeting your obligations. What is a Fringe ..
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Thursday, March 07, 2013
In today’s world we all have access to learning material that helps us think about our businesses and what could make them more successful. Publications, news items, webinars, blogs and the like are all part of the resources available to us. At Altus, we are a strong advocates of continuous learning and such resources generally. For example, the books written by Jim Collins such as &ldqu ..
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The question on everyone's lips is “do we have an optimistic economy in 2013”? Wealth Management Director Rod Dickinson sees evidence of a more optimistic view for global growth, albeit from a very low base. Notwithstanding this we are not completely out of the woods with significant global economic issues to be addressed this year and further into the future as well. The ..
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Following Chris Pearce's recent article on "cloud", this issue we delve deeper to explore the emerging trend towards cloud accounting technology. Accounting software for small to medium businesses is at a crossroad with full cloud products like Xero (http://www.xero.com), Saasu (http://www.saasu.com/), Netsuite (http://www.netsuite.com.au/portal/au/home.shtml) and JCurve (http://www.jcurve ..
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