Off topic - but pretty cool. These are giant maps you can borrow in America. Read more about them here; http://www.ngsednet.org/community/index.cfm?community_id=515from Heather Smith ~ MYOB Certified Consultant

Around this time of the year, business owners are busily burning their ATO empdupe file to disk. I have a reasonable understanding of technology, but when it comes to burning files to discs nothing ever seems to work as it should. It tried for about an hour, on both computers and no luck. I tried ...

Heather Smith has recently been accepted as the representative of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants on the Australian Taxation Office Bookkeeping Advisory Group.The Bookkeeper Advisory Group is a key consultation forum used by the Tax Office to seek views from bookkeepers, bookkeeping associations and nominated representatives of professional associations on Tax Office decision making ...

Whatever software package you choose to use, the management information that it generates is only as good as the information entered into the package. What Financial Information Do You Need To Manage Your Business?At a very basic level you need to be looking at your Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, Aged Payables and Aged Receivable ...

I recently attended a very interesting seminar on “How fair is the Australian Taxation system”, presented by the ACCA. It posed many interesting questions.Are we doing the work of the government by self assessing? Should we be paid for this? (Of note when I lived in England in the 90’s, it was not a requirement ...

We have just had word that ANISE Consulting has been shortlisted as one of the 6 finalists in the South-East Advertiser Business Achiever Awards 2008. Thank-you to everyone who voted for us!from Heather Smith ~ MYOB Certified Consultant

I just purchased 3 HP ink cartridges and they have this promotion on the boxes to sign up and earn points and gifts. I visited the website at www.hp.com/apac/originalrewards and they talk about how they are working with small business.I went to register and they said they were not interested in me unless I spent ...

I recently asked Valerie Khoo why she paid for her blogging service, and here is her very detailed answer.http://www.valeriekhoo.com/2008/05/why-pay-for-a-b.html from Heather Smith ~ MYOB Certified Consultant

  eicolab: design thinking for business innovation   A twittering experiment Posted: 30 May 2008 12:36 AM CDT I am going to use my twitter feed - http://twitter.com/zern - to deliver a constant stream of visual, aural, emotive, olfactory snippets of nows. As a source of idea germs, to spark divergent thinking. In response to ...

This site has some nifty looking business cards.I could see some of our techies in the community running around with the first card. I googled it – and the guy is a computer security consultant and convicted criminal and the site sells the card for $5. How about that for an innovative income stream – ...