2021 Business Planning

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Running a business without a business plan is like rock climbing blindfolded. Your chances of making it successfully to the top are slim.
A business plan is a step-by-step guide to running your business and creating a product or service that will make it successful in the marketplace.
Here at Alliotts it’s been a good few weeks of everyone working diligently to ensure our clients are all geared up for financial year end. Therefore it might be apt to say this month’s article is a little light given the seriousness of this time of year.
In essence, providing food and wine gifts are only 50% deductible. Historically there has been ambiguity around this but as of 1 September 2016 it is definitely only 50%. (This is of particular relevance to real estate agents.)
For many business owners, racking up charges on behalf of a customer (disbursements) is part of doing business. You can, hopefully, pass on all those disbursements to your customers as billable expenses. The key is to keep track of what charges go with which customer.
We outline exactly how Xero can help you to do that.