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New Zealand Budget 2023 – No Frills? or Blow-out?

Posted in Accounting & Advisory

Budget 2023 has been dubbed as the “No Frills Budget” by the Government.   The opposition are already dubbing it the “Blow-out Budget”. Given that inflation is at levels unseen in New Zealand for a generation, the messaging around the…

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Aaron Cassidy of WK Advisors and Accountants: Mindshop Accredited

Posted in Accounting & Advisory

As a business leader or entrepreneur, finding the right strategic facilitation partner can be crucial to the success of your business. That’s why WK Advisors and Accountants launched its Strategic Advisory programmes designed for accountability and action, which…

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FBT – the forgotten and especially unloved tax.

Posted in Accounting & Advisory #fbt

People generally are not overly enthusiastic about filing and paying taxes.  However, businesses seem to reserve a special disdain for fringe benefit tax or FBT.  FBT is seen as overly complex and difficult to comply with compared to other taxes.

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Kaiora Downs

Posted in Accounting & Advisory

Mark and Jane Schwass are award-winning beef and lamb farmers based in Culverden, North Canterbury. Mark and Jane have been clients of WK for many years, they purchased the 956-hectare property at Kaiora Downs in the Hurunui foothills…

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Insights 4, 5 and 6 from Mindshop – Invest in leadership & coaching, thriving’ strategy and vision for 2022 and don’t lose sight of what makes you profitable

Posted in Accounting & Advisory #mindshop business leader insights report 2022 series

This week, we continue to unpack the six key insights from Mindshop’s Business Leader Insights Report.Insights four to six cover investing in leadership and coaching capabilities, creating a thriving strategy and vision for 2022, and focusing on what makes your…

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How to Use Your Reset Plan to Address Emerging Insights – Mindshop Business Leader Insights

Posted in Accounting & Advisory #mindshop business leader insights report 2022 series

There’s quite a bit to get into with the key insights from Mindshop’s Business Leader Insights Report, and so we’ve split the six insights in half for a post each. In this third post analysing Mindshop’s Business Leader Insights…

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Preparing for the end of the tax year – 31 March 2022

Posted in Accounting & Advisory

There’s plenty of uncertainty out there about what the next few weeks and months will look like as Omicron sweeps through the community in full swing and geopolitical turmoil impacts financial markets and inflation.  However, as the saying goes there…

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Hargreaves Merges with WK Advisors and Accountants Christchurch Office

Posted in Accounting & Advisory

WK Advisors and Accountants has the pleasure of announcing that our Christchurch office has merged with fellow Ōtautahi-based accountancy company, Hargreaves & Felton. The merged business will trade as WK Christchurch. Rick Hill,…

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Government implements significant property changes

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Today the Government renewed its war on residential landlords and announced some major changes in the property sector.  Obviously, the house price increases we have seen in the past couple of years are unsustainable and are having significant social impacts. …

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Update on recent happenings in Wellington

Posted in Accounting & Advisory

Due to Government activities ceasing for last month’s election, there hasn’t been much to write in terms of updates recently.  With the recent confirmation of the election results, things have suddenly sprung back to life. Small Business Cashflow Scheme In…

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