"BiziNet Magazine #87 - Sep/Oct 2017" BiziNet™ Articles

Gary Edstein has worked in the transport industry for 41 years. Longevity, they say, is the progenitor of loyalty. Serving to underline that theory is the example he epitomises of a life spent in just two large entities. The first eleven years was with Trans Australia Airlines, predecessor to the domestic arm of Qantas, and the second period with DHL.

Marketing is a science, a much more complex subject than many of us would like to think. It requires people with hands-on practical experience. Marketing, pretty much like any other business skill, cannot be mastered by theoretical study.

The Corporations Amendment (Crowd Source Funding) Bill 2016 is due to come into operation on 29 September 2017. Crowd Source Funding (“CSF”) continues to be a popular way that allows entrepreneurs/start-ups to raise funds from many investors. Until recently CSF in Australia has been aimed at “sophisticated” or “wholesale” investors. The above Bill effectively establishes a regulatory framework to facilitate CSF by small, unlisted public companies aimed at attracting retail investors.

Amounts you pay an employee when they stop working for you may be taxable. The tax being payroll tax under the Payroll Tax Act 2007 (NSW). How so and why?

Self-service Business Intelligence (BI) is a trend with a somewhat vague definition. In the most general sense, self-service BI tasks are those that business users carry out themselves instead of passing them on to IT for fulfillment.