Coming to Terms with Mistakes in Business Mistakes in business can be a hard lesson to swallow. Just ask me about the huge list of mistakes I've made in business over the past 8 years. It's so long it has its own storage space in the cloud. But the reality is that everyone will make a business mistake of some ... read more >>
Please Explain... This year, more than ever, we are seeing Fair Trading follow through on agents with qualified audits with a polite, 'please explain'. At the EOMA office, we come across common receipting errors which are at the heart of these qualified audits. One of the biggest and most frequent receipting error, is the timing between receiving and the receipting ... read more >>
Let's be honest, starting out a small business is never easy. Keeping one afloat can be even more difficult. There are approximately 2.1 million small businesses operating within Australia. Of those, 54, 992 business went bust in the 2018 financial year, a 12.7% increase from the year before. On average, 60% of Aussie small business close their doors in the ... read more >>
Woah is it the end of the year already?! 2018 went very quickly and what a year it was. No doubt the highlight of this year was Jerome and I welcoming our son Marley into the world in April. He has been a constant source of joy for us and he’s settled into our life very quickly. Although Tracy officially ... read more >>
Licensee holidays. They can be as elusive as snow on the roof on a hot Aussie Christmas Day. Yet, they can be done! Gone are the days where as Licensee you are all but forbidden to take some precious annual leave. No longer are you tied to the physical compound of your desk. With all the amazing advances that come ... read more >>
With the ups and downs naturally associated with the real estate sales market, it is important to take care of your rental roll clients. Your rental roll clients are the ones that will (hopefully) be there through the thick and thin of the sales cycles. When sales times are low, the rental roll keeps clicking along. Just the same, when ... read more >>
New Year Resolutions or New Year Job? The New Year brings not only New Year Resolutions in the bucketloads, but also a lot of thought about current employment options. It's a time where people decide to stay put if they are happy in their current role, or to make a change. We see many Trust Accountants decide to move on from ... read more >>
Weak passwords are a hacker's dream and everyone else's nightmare. The reality is that the online world is far from safe. Hackers are on the constant look out for weak passwords and systems they can breach quickly and easily. Unfortunately, people are still failing to secure their online information and despite the warnings, online accounts are protected by common and ... read more >>
Choosing the Right Trust Account Auditor Strap yourselves in for what is going to be an epic blog of epic proportions. Yet as we may joke about the dry nature of our audit topic this month, it is one to actually be taken quite seriously. Yes we are talking about the importance of using a qualified real estate trust account ... read more >>
The day our Director transferred $100,000 instead of $1,000…and how you can avoid the same mistake. Before you think, no - that can’t be right! Think again. Yes these mistakes can, and do happen (even to the best of us). Major mistakes can happen in the blink of an eye – whether from a momentary lapse in concentration or simple ... read more >>
