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What Best Practices should you follow when conducting a Financial Review to ensure your decision-making is based on a thorough understanding of your business?
Big Tech’s market might in five charts
How would the US market have performed without Big Tech? How do their profits compare? Our charts reveal the market dominance of the “FAMAGs”.
How to manage anchoring bias
Anchoring is one of many behavioural heuristics or biases that can inhibit investor returns. Whether you are investing on your own behalf, or consult a financial advisor, we hope the examples and suggestions here help in your decision making process.
The Power of Price
Understanding how a customer or prospect VALUES your service is critical to getting pricing correct. This article details an approach to understanding value and various other important factors to grow the profitability of your business.
Business Management Accounts
Working with an accountant who is also a specialist business advisor to provide specific management advice makes a lot of sense, yet only a few firms are qualified and confident enough to do so. Read why.
Tax time warning
The ATO – Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You! The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is closing in fast on everyone who doesn’t properly declare their income and pay the correct amount of tax. As your Tax Accountants, we want to help you be aware of… Read More >>
More benchmarks in the world than stocks
How benchmarks can affect you The number of indices benchmarking portfolio performance in the world now far exceeds the actual number of stocks in the world. This is patently absurd. Benchmarks and indices were first created to collate and measure the performance of a basket… Read More >>
Mentoring For Business Growth
A business advisor can help you take your business from where it is now to where you want to be. We have the advantage of looking at it from the outside without being tied down by the day-to-day running of your business. At OBT, we… Read More >>
What do market benchmarks measure?
Investing and sports can be similar in that good performance can be driven by a handful of superstar shares or players. In 2015, for example, the US S&P 500 index had a total return of 1.4 per cent. But if you took away just four… Read More >>
Working with a Virtual Chief Financial Officer
Want different business results? Consider a mentor to guide you in the right direction The beginning of a new financial year is a common time for people to reconsider their approach to their business. With the help of a Virtual CFO, you can reduce your… Read More >>
