Ho ho ho, and a merry Christmas to all! We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our clients, supporters and followers a very happy and safe festive season filled with family, friends, fun and (of course) food, and a prosperous 2019.

A quick reminder that our offices in Whangarei and Dargaville will be closing at 3pm and 12pm respectively on Friday, 21 December 2018. We re-open again at 8.30am on Monday, 14 January 2019.

Yes, another year is coming to close and you know what that means ... Christmas and New Year public holidays!

Fortunately there is no Mondayisation to contend with over the 2018/2019 festive season as the public holidays all fall on weekdays - good news for payroll managers!

Blog Series part 3

Search Engine Optimisation - you may have heard of it; you may also understand the importance of it. But are you aware of Local SEO, and how it differs from standard SEO?

Blog Series part 2

Your brand is essentially your business's personality and the psychological responses that personality stirs within your customers. It's the personality you craft and the reputation you earn.

When a customer hears your business name, sees your logo, experiences your products, and hears your company's voice in its communications, these things will conjure a perception in your customer's mind of what your business is all about.

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As promised in our recent Carters Trade Breakfast blog post, here are the answers to our Tradies Quiz. Did you get all five questions correct?

Inland Revenue will soon be running a Disaster Recovery (DR) test across their online customer channels. The purpose of the test is to ensure Inland Revenue is able to continue its operations in the event of a disaster.

Carters hosted a Trade Breakfast recently, and EBP attended in order to meet and chat with busy tradies before their very hectic days commenced.

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Inland Revenue have announced that from 1 February 2019 they will no longer accept post-dated cheques for tax payments.

Previously Inland Revenue would honour post-dated cheques by not presenting them until the date shown, allowing customers to submit cheque payments ahead of their tax due date.

However with the increased use of electronic methods for making payments, Inland Revenue want to encourage their customers to make the switch from using cash and cheques.

Our recent blog post on payday filing triggered some of our clients to contact us and enquire how the change will be handled in Cashmanager RURAL's wagebook.

CRS Software Ltd have confirmed in a news article on their website they will not be updating their wagebook for payday filing. 

We recently celebrated Flynn O'Meara being acknowledged at an awards event as a new member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, making him a Chartered Accountant and able to use the letters 'CA' after his name.

He was presented with a certificate at the CA ANZ Northland Gala Event 2018 on Thursday 13 September, held at the Whangarei Cruising Club.

Becoming a Chartered Accountant requires many years of studying, examinations and on-the-job training, so it is rather a momentous achievement. Well done Flynn!

Check out some of his photos from the awards ceremony below:

As of today Accountants will now come under the obligations of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (or AML/CFT).