The world stands on the edge of a new era in global trade. With looming tariffs on key imports and exports, small businesses must brace for financial turbulence
How Financial Literacy and Jazoodle Drive Small Business Success
In today’s fast-paced business world, financial literacy isn’t just an added advantage—it’s the foundation of success. A recent study, “Financial Literacy of Entrepreneurs and Companies’ Performance” sheds light on how entrepreneurs’ financial behaviors drive their companies’ performance.
Reflection: Geopolitics And Business
The world is changing massively, and not least, the geopolitical landscape. With elections due soon in the USA, and AUS, and recent landslide election of the Labour government, the impact to small and medium businesses could be big
What are the 5 business numbers that warn you of future cashflow problems?
What are the 5 business numbers that warn you of future cashflow problems? Many businesses have been in this situation – sales are great, there’s money in the bank, and yet, 6 months later, you’re struggling to finance your operations despite record sales within your business. The trouble is, you neither have the time, nor […]
Mark Holton Joins Jazoodle As Board Advisor
Jazoodle is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Holton as board advisor to Jazoodle’s existing executive team and board. Mark is a company director, Chairman, and co founder of Smithink, a specialist accounting practice business advisor. Mark brings 35 years successful business experience to Jazoodle. “We are absolutely thrilled to have Mark on board […]
Business Financing Options For US Businesses
Entrepreneurs and business owners are the financial life blood of communities, and wider economies in the provision of products and services. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA) small businesses in the USA represent 99.9% of employers and thus are the top employer for millions of people. This is similar to most advanced economies, such […]
Inflationary Pressure – How This May Affect Business
Forward Earlier this year, we wrote an article about business complacency and testing your business’ resiliency as we looked to exit the global Covid19 pandemic. One of the areas of concern, following pandemic recovery, was significant pressures foreseen in the global economy, beautifully argued by Charles Goodhart, Manoj Pradhan (2020). As we head into the tail […]
Why business lockdowns?
Business Lockdowns: Something Doesn’t Add Up With The Covid Numbers The Devastation To Business From Lockdown May Not Be Justified On Saturday, NSW Health gave advice to the NSW Premier that the potential for an uncontrolled spread of Covid 19 in Greater Sydney was great, and business lockdowns were put into place. Reading twitter, many […]
Identifying The Risks Building Within Your Business
Identifying risks building within your business Is Your Business Becoming Complacent? A couple of bits of news really piqued our interest this week and got us thinking. The first, a survey by CPA Australia into the effects of Covid on Australian businesses. The findings were from a survey of over 4000 Australian businesses. Its conclusions […]
The Founder’s Podcast Wrapper
Business Podcast Summary To save you time and effort (it’s what we do!) here’s a summary with links to our initial podcast series, originally created in 2021 Episode 1 Alan Jones Serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor Episode 2 Caleb Gibbins (CEO Cache) and Sean Greenhaugh (CEO TimeChi) Episode 3 Gordon Whitehead Business Advisor Episode 4 Brendan […]
Is Your Business Going To Be OK?
Recent ABS statistics showed that between 60 and 70% of all businesses do not make it to their 5th birthday. Think of all that blood, sweat and tears within those businesses. There are a myriad of reasons for such levels. Two of the key reasons are 1) poor financial spatial awareness and 2) inadequate financial planning and forecasting. As a company, these […]
6 Business Indicators You Should Check Every Month
If, like thousands of other business owners, you are at times unable to see the wood through the trees, there’s some little tricks that you can use to ensure your business is on track – and these will only take a few seconds each month. We recommend checking at least every month, after closing your […]
Corporate Zombiism
According to Banerjee and Hoffman, (2018) a Zombie company is an established company that is being artificially kept alive and unable to service its mounting debts. Their key takeways from their research were: [Corporate Zombiism appears]: “ to be linked to reduced financial pressure, reflecting in part the effects of lower interest rates. They are […]
News: Jazoodle’s Founder at UNSW Founders 10X Accelerator Demo Night
Watch Jazoodle and the UNSW Founders 10X Demo in Action Jazoodle were recently featured by IT Wire as part of the coverage from journalist Alex Zaharov-Reutt who has been a long term fan of Jazoodle and our platform. Great write up of all of our fellow cohort, thank you Alex!https://youtu.be/ACxO3pm3iTw
5 things you wished your accounting system could do…
Introduction Cloud Accounting software, such as Xero, Quickbooks, and MYOB have revolutionised the way that organisations manage, plan and understand their businesses. One of the key differences between Cloud Accounting and traditional Server or desktop based accounting is that businesses can now easily socialise their business data to their chosen business professional, such as accountant […]
5 Capabilities Small Business Needs To Make It To Their 4th Year.
Introduction Here in NSW, Australia, October 1st marks the start of Small Business Month. It is the start of a month of activities and education aimed at improving the lot of small business owners and directors, of celebrating the powerhouse that small and medium businesses are, and ensuring that owners, directors, and all stakeholders of SMEs […]