Attracting & retaining your top talent As we come to the close of 2016, the last 10 months have seen many businesses across New Zealand face a variety of, sometimes overwhelming, but always unique challenges. Through this, the ability to engage and retain valuable employee’s remains a critical risk for all, not only for the financial impact; but also as it adversely affects employee morale. Renewed hiring confidence in our market place has resulted in a shallow pool of trained staff, particularly in areas such as construction. This has meant that the balance of power is now in favour of the candidate. As a result of this shift, the importance is clear that stronger emphasis needs to be p
NEWSLETTER Issue 4Nov 2016 – Jan 2017 © 2016 INSIDE THIS EDITION Is your business cyber safe? 1 How do we now treat feasibility expenditure? 2 Employee share schemes 3 IRD rulings 3 Snippets 4 Farmhouse expenses 4 Nothing is certain, except death and taxes 4 Is your business cyber safe? Technology and change is prevalent across all areas, right through from the supply chain to the customer. Computers are no longer isolated assets; complex cloud based systems allow all areas of an organisation to betruly digital. Although this can have many benefits, an increased digital presence, combined with the expansion of mobile technology, is exposing businesses to risks; particularly where there has b
