Accountants and Advisors

Resource Links

For Business

Centrique Pty Ltd

Centrique Pty Ltd is a joint venture operation of know how involving Greg Farmilo of Farmilo & Co Chartered Accountants and Stiearc Systems Pty Ltd (see www.stiearc.com.au). It has been established to produce and distribute the software invention entitled Action Planning and other online planning solutions. Please see that site for further details.

Australian Business Limited

According to their website Australian Business Limited (ABL) is a member based organisation that businesses use to connect them with the information, people and advice they need to make sound business decisions and stay competitive. What does ABL do? We minimise the inherent risks in making business decisions for our valued members by providing specific answers to their questions on a wide range of business issues. The site is comprehensive and particularly relevant to the manufacturing industry.

Bplans.com

This is an American software house espousing the Bplan way of writing business plans (and obviously by using their Bplan software). However, you can review "thousands of free sample plans". This is a good site if you're wondering what type of software is available for business planning.

Women's Network Australia

An excellent resource for those starting or operating a small business. This site provides articles including how to write business plans, network group contacts, and other resources.

Free Legal

This site is a portal to free legal advice available in Australia. You click on the Australian State from which you require the info and this starts you on the track to accessing legal information from some of the country's more reliable and reputable sources, including the Aust Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), National Legal Aid and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

Australian Financial Review

The leading national financial newspaper. Contains a healthy mix of politics to boot.

Institute of Chartered Accountants

Beyond Financial Group and Farmilo & Co are members of the Institute and abide by their professional and ethical rules of conduct.

Some Business Authors

Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Stephen Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Jonar Nader, author of How to Lose Friends, and Infuriate People

Government Agencies

NSW Small Business

This is the website for small business in NSW. Although it is operated by the State Government it does have some really good information and worksheets. Try it out.

Business Entry Point

This site has been set up with the fundamental idea, that should you require any business information from any government agency, regardless whether it be federal or state, you should be able to go to the one web site and find what you're looking for. This is the site. On the home page of this site, it lists some of the information that can be sourced - tax, registering a business, licences, grants and financial assistance, home-based business, employing people, tenders, import and export, retail leasing and so on.

Australian Taxation Office - ATO Assist

This site is, well, it's about tax.

NSW Dept of Fair Trading

This site is of particular importance to incorporated associations, besides having resources applicable to all businesses operating in NSW.

Australian Securities & Investment Commission

ASIC is in charge of the Corporations Act and oversees financial services legislation. It has a very good watchdog site called "Fido's" and can be used for the purposes of looking up company information.