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Cybersecurity and your business
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Perform reviews and quality assurance tests for functional and security verification Update your cyber security systems on a regular basis A Policy to change passwords regularly Incident Response Plan and reporting Employment Contracts with inbuilt digital security and social media clauses Training for employees to improve their digital security consciousness Brand and design guidelines that outline the business language Social Media Policy
KATHERINE HAWES
Think about how many times a day you use digital technology in your business and personal lives. If the answer is multiple times a day, then there are some key things you need to consider keeping your data, information and devices secure.
The daily conundrum
Most businesspeople’s typical day starts with a foray into digital land as we check our businesses messages, social media for new clients, emails to ascertain the new priorities for today, our calendars to reorganise appointments and our internal systems to obtain client information on mobile technology.
Do not forget other people are also accessing your client data to manage their businesses.
Consider what is going out on social media networks that may impact your business and personal security. Be careful about posting business trips, leaving town on holidays and particularly the destination as well as locations that highlight your customers who can be poached.
Cyber Attackers Rely on Human Error
Each year in Australia there are thousands of cyber breaches to businesses. Hackers rely only partly on their security-penetration skills. The other thing they need are regular people making mistakes.
Th ese att acks are becoming more advanced and sophisticated, training is mission-critical to minimise human error from the cyberatt ack equation. Don’t open suspicious emails, give out details on the phone, respond to the robo-marketer or used unsecured technology.
Basic security for your business
We all know not to click on suspicious emails, open that new friend request from an existing friend on Facebook and be sceptical of the new robo-marketer.
However, enhancing your businesses cybersecurity requires a concentrated eff ort. Today our websites have automatic reminders to clients about our privacy and terms and conditions of use but how then do we remind ourselves, employees and third-party partners of the importance of cybersecurity management?
Here is some of the advice we give our clients:
Security Know-How Can Advance You in Your Existing Job
While it may appear resource intensive to manage your businesses digital security, a security breach will cost you downtime, time out of your business and dollars to repair the issue. However, the most important consideration is brand reputation. Imagine if in your marketplace, your business was known to have breached the privacy of customers or employees.
If you would like assistance in becoming cyber-secure, please call our team on 0288583211.
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Cruella – 3 Stars
An expensive looking, but bland enough, vehicle for star turns from two powerhouse Emma’s.
ESTELLA (Emma Stone) grew up without a mother, after a horrific accident she blames herself for. Left to fend for herself, she teams up with Jasper (Joel Fry) and Horace (Paul Walter-Hauser), and the subsequent band of pick-pockets / thieves robs myriad people blind. However, Estella doesn’t love the life, and instead dreams of being a fashion designer. After Jasper hooks her up with a gig in a fancy fashion department store, her work is noticed by the fabled Baroness (Emma Thompson)–London’s premiere fashion designer.
Th e Baroness takes Estella under her wing (as much as she does with anybody), but this leads to a horrifying discovery from Estella about the fate of her mother. She’s left with only one option; to transform into her alter ego Cruella, and challenge Th e Baroness for supremacy in London’s fashion world.
Cruella has a diff erent look to many of Disney’s recent live-action reimaginings. It’s a bit gritt ier, a bit grimier, aided no doubt by it’s period look. Frankly, it looks beautiful. But that indie-fi lm look isn’t a factor of its budget, because Cruella cost over $200 million to put on screen.
For anyone watching the movie without sound, it might be hard to imagine why that is the case. For those with functioning ears, however, the cost centres are evident immediately, and consistently throughout, because this fi lm has the most gratuitously expensive soundtrack imaginable.
Every 70’s banger is featured, undoubtedly blowing the soundtrack budget sky high. Th e shocking thing is that for the most part, this incessant hall-of-fame rollout adds litt le to the fi lm, other than dragging you kicking and screaming out of it.
Th e rest of the mammoth budget is likely spent on the things that actually make this fi lm standout–that being the costuming, set design, and lead actresses. Th e costumes and fashions are absolutely gorgeous, blending a mix of relatable period pieces with stunning new concoctions that help solidify Cruella’s supposed fashion bonafi des. Th e set decoration is similarly impressive, whimsical and grounded all at once. It brings a Disney sensibility to a British period piece.
Th en there are the two Emmas. Emma Stone is incredible as Cruella, grounding this anti-hero while also showcasing her range–whether she’s faking innocence, streaming tears in emotional scenes, or just throwing lewks as she struts down that catwalk.
It’s even more impressive when you consider that the character, as writt en, gives her very litt le to work with. In this script, Cruella’s motivations turn on a dime with no rhyme or reason, and a lesser actress would have struggle to convincingly bring Jasper and Horace back to the fold aft er treating them like garbage for a third of the runtime. Only Stone could make us care again.
She is matched, if not exceeded, by the gloriously cruel Emma Th ompson, who dives into her villainous turn with relish. Like a murderous version of Meryl Streep in Devil Wears Prada, Th ompson is prone to gloriously sly one-liners, beautiful eyebrow raises, and a stunning fashion sense. She is a joy to watch, chewing this material up and spitt ing it out into what will surely become a series of not-to-be-missed GIFs.
In the end, Cruella is saved by these three elements, because outside of them all we have is a story that we have generally seen before, that retcons a truly villainous Disney character only by giving her someone even worse to go up against, and couches it all behind a disturbingly and distractingly expensive soundtrack that does more harm than good.
Reviews by Jacob Richardson Creative Director | Film Focus www.filmfocusau.com
A Quiet Place II – 4 Stars
John Kransinski follows up his stunning directorial debut with a worthy successor.
LARGELY set immediately after the events of the first film (excluding a prelude revisiting the day these sound-hating aliens landed on Earth), A Quiet Place II follows Evelyn (Emily Blunt) as she picks up the pieces of her life post the death of her husband Lee (John Krasinski). Determined to use the technological discovery from the end of the previous film to their advantage, she takes her daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and her son Marcus (Noah Jupe) to find allies.
Th ey come across Emmett (Cillian Murphy)–an old friend of the family’s, who has lost hope these past few years. He reluctantly joins the cause, slowly coming to form a bond with Regan, and the crew splits up to solve a series of problems related to their predicament.
Regan and Emmett must trek to the ocean and cross it to fi nd a way to amplify the signal from her hearing aid, Evelyn must fi nd more oxygen and medicine from their old town without gett ing caught, and Marcus has to keep the new born baby quiet and alive, while discovering what secrets Emmett ’s hiding place holds.
As with the fi rst fi lm, A Quiet Place II deals incredibly with sound, and the sound design on display here is top notch. When it’s loud, it’s overwhelming–most evident in the fi rst few scenes of normal life on Earth, which ring with a deafening vehemence now that we know how dangerous those noises can be. Similarly, when it’s quiet with only the soft padding of footsteps, or swishes of clothing, it becomes unbearably tense.
And then when it goes entirely silent, a bizarre feeling of safety and security washes over you. It’s a tremendous, award-worthy achievement.
Th e acting on display here is once again fantastic, and only bolstered by the infl ux of Cillian Murphy’s talents. Blunt and Murphy are two of the best actors in the game, and Simmonds keeps up, creating a cohesive and engaging performance tapestry that once again makes this engrossing.
Visually, there is lots to love about the fi lm as well, and Krasinski uses his extra time behind the camera to focus on motifs–frequently having our triptych of heroes face similar elements at the same time. Th e cutt ing between the three is eff ective, and only very rarely distracting.
Th e fi lm loses some of the fi rst’s shock value, because we’ve played with this concept before, and in some respects that is a shame. But Krasinski does an admirable job of building out the world, adding in new intriguing elements (and new horrifi c elements), while justifying the existence of this follow up. It’s a worthwhile and engaging sequel, even if it falls short of the original.
Reviews by Jacob Richardson Creative Director | Film Focus www.filmfocusau.com
BREED Australia’s tenant community is embracing the post-COVID digital era
THE COVID-19 pandemic has meant that many businesses that are not focused on online brand marketing are at a considerable disadvantage.
Th is is the view echoed by several businesses based at BREED Australia that provides aff ordable co-working spaces and complimentary incubator programs.
Ash Coop from Sydney Digital Designs (www.sydneydigitaldesigns.com.au), an agency that provides digital services such as SEO and social media management, believes it is vital for a business to have a well structured online presence these days.
Th e younger generation has been born in the digital age, and with everything being online, they need to make sure that their business is represented. Ash says for some people, it’s old school marketing, but he also stressed the importance of online advertising when trying to fi nd new customers on social media sites like Facebook or Instagram.
Ash believes that businesses should beware of companies who will overpromise and under deliver. He credits BREED’s online presence as to how he found them in the fi rst place.
“I wouldn’t have heard of BREED if it weren’t for digital marketing; they had an eff ective online presence, which is how I found them.”
Gee Vaile is the Head of Public Relations for a social media marketing agency, Rhino Social (www.rhinosocial.com.au). She says that having an online presence is more relevant than ever before.
L-R BREED Incubator Tenants, Gee Vail (Rhino Social), Ash Coop(Sydney Digital Designs), Catherine Tripp (Mindsite Web Services)
“Th e best thing about being digital is that it’s there forever, as opposed to traditional marketing.”
Gee goes on to say: “Something that print media doesn’t off er is advanced and more precise fi gures for reach and engagement, which is a huge part of any campaign to receive the best results and understand audiences.”
When COVID hit, Rhino Social, who are very thankful for BREED Australia’s support, substantially grew its client base when businesses started to move online.
“Th roughout COVID-19, people were spending a signifi cant amount of time online than ever before,” said Gee.
“Seeing our clients and other businesses survive through this time using social media to do so shows just how relevant digital is”.
“When we produce content for our clients, there’s always a purpose behind it,” says Gee. “We aim to tell their brand story whilst focusing on the end result, whether that’s to generate leads, increase sales or leverage brand awareness and exposure on social platforms.”
Th e Rhino team have a strong passion for digital marketing, “there’s never a dull moment in the digital world” according to Gee, “keeping up with the trends, the changes and updates is something we constantly monitor. It’s a fast-paced industry that never stops, and that’s the beauty of it”.
Catherine Tripp, the content strategist of Mindsite Web Services (www.mindsite. com.au), a website management agency and digital marketing company, noted that websites are important because they give people their fi rst impression of your business. Your website is like your 24-hour representative or your constant shop front.
Th e Internet has become more competitive following COVID because a lot more potential customers are browsing online. Catherine said that it is crucial to have your website optimised for your business goals. So it can represent your business constantly and improve your chances of being found organically.
“You might have a great website, but that’s not enough anymore. If you want to succeed in today’s market, then your site needs an “online presence.” MindSites recent rebuild of the Breed business’ website helped their branding, rankings and online impression.
Websites are now giving visitors more than a sales pitch. Th ey’re adding blogs and other content for added value to keep customers coming back. In the post-COVID age, if you’re not active online, you simply won’t be found.
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Gett ing your business ready for tax time
JOSEPH ESSEY
MOST small businesses I encounter have an Accountant preparing their end of year accounts and tax return, with this process starting some time after the mad end of financial year rush.
If your accountant is not seeing your accounts until aft er end of Financial Year has passed, oft en it is too late to take advantage of some of the best tax planning strategies available.
And while there are accountants who are wizards of their craft , I have yet to see one master the art of time travel. Luckily, there are some easy to execute strategies that you can employ now which will help to reduce your tax liability without needing the help of a mad cap scientist or a DeLorean!
Defer income and bring forward expenses
During tax time, businesses should aim to minimise income and maximise expenses in order to reduce assessable income and tax.
Th e key here is to only delay income where it is practical and only bring forward expenses which you were going to incur anyway. Remember, just because you haven’t paid for something doesn’t mean that you can’t claim it.
Businesses are entitled to an immediate deduction for most expenses that have been “incurred” but not been paid by June 30.
Pay superannuation contributions early
Superannuation is one of the few business expenses in which simply incurring it does not allow for a tax deduction – it must actually be physically paid and the fund must receive the money before 30 June for a tax deduction to apply.
If you have the cashfl ow and the timing works, I always encourage my clients to calculate Super payable right up until the June Qtr contributions and pay this before fi nancial year end. However, you must ensure that this payment is made by June 23, at the latest, to guarantee the fund receives the money before 30 June and for the deduction to apply.
The Prepayment Rule
An immediate deduction is available to small businesses (turnover under $10 million) for the prepayment of certain expenses, such as lease payments, interest, rent, business travel, insurances and subscriptions up to 12 months in advance–if paid by June 30. Th is is particularly useful if you have the money in the bank and are going to be paying these expenses in the next three months anyway. Pay it now and claim the deduction in this year’s tax return.
Writing off Your Bad Debts
Businesses should review trade debtors to assess their likely recoverability with a view to identifying genuine bad debts which could be writt en off for tax purposes before year end. Creating a provision for the bad debt in your accounts is not enough – you need to actually credit it out of your accounts to claim a deduction. However, it is important to ensure there is litt le to no prospect of recovery for the debt and to retain a writt en record of your eff orts to recover, which is important if it is ever subject to review by the ATO.
Update the value of your stock and assets
If you are dealing in selling goods, and particularly if you have high volume of transactions or have a lot of fi xed assets, it can be diffi cult to keep your stock accurate all the time. As a minimum I advocate that businesses conduct one annual count to keep their accounts up to date with an accurate value of stock on hand. Where stock or assets have become obsolete or their value has been impaired, this may result in their closing balance being valued at an amount less than cost which will generate an allowable tax deduction.
Temporary full expensing
Th e temporary investment tax incentive announced in last year’s budget allows businesses with a turnover up to $5 billion to deduct the full cost of any eligible business asset, including the cost of improvements to existing assets, until 30 June 2023. For businesses with an aggregated turnover of less than $50 million this also includes second hand assets. Th is means, as long the asset is fi rst held and ready for use by 30 June, you can claim its cost in full as a deduction in your tax return for this year.
Finally, I encourage all businesses to speak with their accountant or Finance Manager now, before end of fi nancial year passes, to discuss their position and the tax planning strategies available to them. While taxes may be certain, timing is everything and a litt le bit of forward planning can make a signifi cant diff erence to what you will pay when the tax man comes knocking.
Joseph Essey is the founder and operator of Your Business Finance Manager, an Outsourced Finance and Accounts solution for growing small businesses and has over 15 years’ experience helping small to medium sized businesses to manage their financial position and achieve sustainable growth. Visit: www.ybfmanager.com This information is of a general nature only and does not constitute professional advice. You must seek professional advice in relation to your particular circumstances before acting.
Building Sport = Building Community!
BOB TURNER
SOME years ago, I was approached by a major NSW Council to see if I would assist in securing an NBL team for their city.
When I inquired why, the response was that their city did not have a sporting identity and a property they could call their own to generate support from their community. Th e fact they did not have a venue to meet NBL standards was not a deterrent as they felt get the team and we will build it.
Last month I wrote about how sport can build and unite, especially in the corporate sense. Th is month the focus is on the community and what it means to have a sporting team to generate pride, affi liation and a community spirit.
Whether you are a rugby league supporter or not when you think of Penrith, the Panthers come to mind. Mention Manly and the Sea Eagles pop into the conversation. Similarly, the Eels are synonymous with Parramatt a.
It does not matt er if you even follow sport, any sport, but these teams create a sense of community spirit and association. Th ey build an affi nity that tends to be as prominent as any other feature of a city.
In 2006, I had the idea to internationalise the NBL by placing a team in Singapore. When I met with senior members of the Singapore Sports Council with the concept to establish a pro team for the country their interest was sparked.
In the words of one of the offi cials it was mentioned that if you go to London – you will go to Wembley, or the MSG if visiting Melbourne. Go to New York – Yankee Stadium or Madison Square Garden. Visit Singapore, the comment was made you go to Orchard Road for shopping as Singapore did not have a major sporting presence.
Government backed my initiative
Th e government backed my initiative to establish the fi rst professional sporting team for the country – a win for both the NBL and Singapore. Th e fi rst two years were challenging, especially as the travel was expensive and we were paving new ground.
On top of that we were playing in the Australian NBL and the playing roster rules were two imports and eight Australians/New Zealanders on the team.
Despite making the NBL playoff s in our fi rst year, with Singapore on our uniform chest, the Singapore National was confused and wondering where their players were. Teams are supposed to represent a city, Country in this case, with a sense of pride and purpose.
Th e solution was to establish an ASEAN based League and thanks to the Slingers Chairman, Tony Fernandes from Air Asia, within a year the Slingers had pulled out of the NBL and were playing in the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL).
Th e ABL had the rules of a minimum seven Nationals on each team and playing similar countries like Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and even Brunei, the local spirit started to take hold. I went to the ABL fi nals two years ago to see the Slingers play in the Grand Final at their home ground.
When I walked into the Stadium a sense of pride came over me as the sell-out crowd, mainly of Singapore nationals, were there to wildly support their team. Singapore had now identifi ed with the Slingers and the now fulltime players were becoming household names. Th e Spirit of sport had infi ltrated the Singapore psyche and proved once again community spirit can be generated by a sporting team. Sport excels through its tribal base and nature. For National teams like the Wallabies, Matildas, Opals or Boomers the support comes from the country. When it comes to locally based teams like Collingwood, the Bulldogs, Eels or the Sharks the passionate fan base can run through generations. When I fi rst came to Australia the tribalism of Rugby League in Sydney was legendary. Th is passion and building community spirit is the goal of Blacktown City FC. We have the vital ingredients of a beautiful home stadium, history, culture and long standing credibility of producing talent. Playing in the NSW Premier League we have the potential to become a sporting catalyst to assist in igniting pride in Blacktown.
Our slogan for the year is ‘Your Town, Your Team’ and as you can see by the print ad in this publication we are “Always Blacktown, Never Backdown”!
Our focus is on the 400,000 residents who live in this great city, and as we say: “Show your Support and Show Up”! See you at the game!!
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Business lunch is making a comeback
DALLAS SHERRINGHAM
ACOCKTAIL a big steak and a contract went hand in hand during the golden years of the tax deductible Great Aussie business lunch.
Today’s busy generations have missed out of the many benefi ts of a business lunch, but fi nally salvation is at hand for the nation’s long suff ering business lunch devotees.
It all disappeared in the days of the miserly Federal Treasurer Paul Keating who reckoned we didn’t deserve a tax break for our business lunches.
As a consequence, hundreds of restaurants and cafes were hard hit and thousands of people were left without a job, many of them ‘at home’ parents who could fi t in a few hours around midday to host businesspeople.
About the only thing that benefi tt ed was the nation’s waistlines, left malnourished and shrunken by the lack of Oyster Kilpatrick and Lobster Th ermidor washed down with a liberal splash of Marlborough Sounds Sauvignon Blanc followed by Irish Coff ee. Taxi!
Well, if Paris is known as the city of light, Sydney will once again become known as the city of the business lunch if the State Government has its way.
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrott et has indicated enthusiasm for winding back the Fringe Benefi ts Tax, or FBT, in order to restore the era of the tax-deductible business lunch. “I’m all in favor of bringing back the long lunch in Sydney,” Mr Perrott et said recently.
A first class move
Business lunches largely vanished following the introduction of the FBT in 1986. Th is was a rare anti-business mistake by the usually sensible Hawke government.
It was a class-based move. Proponents of the tax argued that wealthy business types should not earn tax breaks by eating oysters and drinking wine.
Th is argument misses the point that business lunches frequently lead to business deals, creating employment opportunities for other Australians.
If ever Sydney and Australia needed some business-boosting incentives, it is right now, during our economic recovery from the damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, mindful of the $3.8bn a year generated nationwide by the FBT, won’t cut the tax.
So keen is Mr Perrott et, however, that he fl agged a NSW-only FBT reform.
“If they don’t do it themselves, I’m more than happy to look at something in a creative space from the NSW government level to help drive that,” Mr Perrott et told media.
Th is would give Sydney a signifi cant advantage over other state capitals which won’t have tax deductions in place.
Th ere are also the fl ow-on eff ects for restaurants across Western Sydney, which is among the areas most damaged by our economic contraction.
Leading restaurateur Luke Mangan told media that bringing back the long lunch by scrapping the FBT could increase trade by up to 50%.
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We can organise your changeover & provide you with our expertise in disconnecting & reconnecting your utilities.
Sydney, Country NSW and Interstate
1800 77 77 81
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