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Is your Business Future in the Cloud? – Whangarei

 

140605 - calendar iconMoving to the cloud seems to be the buzz phrase of 2014.  Applications and services are hosted from the cloud, data is stored in the cloud – and servers are moving to the cloud.  Everyone from your accountant to your graphic designer is likely to be using the cloud for some or all of these business processes.  So does your business need to become more cloud oriented?  What does that mean for you?  What are the benefits and what are the potential pitfalls?

Proponents wax lyrical about access from any device, reduced reliance on on-site IT management and cost savings.  But what about the time and effort to transition to the cloud?  And how about the risk of reliance on your internet service to operate your business?  And can you trust your cloud provider with the security and privacy of your data?

How do you consider the tradeoffs between cost, security, ease of management, vulnerability to far-away providers and ease of access?  Do the benefits outweigh the costs?

For this event we have assembled a quality panel comprising two business owners who have tackled this issue in their own business – and an expert who has seen the issues as they unfold from a professional point of view.

This event will be held at the Elevate CA Limited offices in CBD Whangarei at 5:30pm on Thursday 5 June – and will run through to 7:30pm on the night.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panelists.  And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell before this event fills up.  And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

Dealing with Difficult People in your Business – Newmarket

 

21 May 2014

Difficult people can either suck up a disproportionate amount of your time, energy and money – or you can deal with the situation decisively.   They seem to crop up regularly in every business – they may be on the team – or they may be customers, suppliers or some other stakeholders.

For this Business Owners Forum event, we will assemble a  varied panel of three who have overcome significant challenges in this area – and who will discuss this topic from three different perspectives.  Full details including the three panellists will be posted here before the end of March.  Please note that although no two BOF events are ever the same, this will be more or less a repeat of the 24 April event in Albany.

This event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility, Broadway, Newmarket at 5:30pm on Wednesday 21 May 2014 – and will run through to 7:30pm on the night.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panelists.  And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell before this event fills up.  And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

 

Dealing with Difficult People in your Business – Albany

 

140501 - calendar iconDifficult people seem to crop up regularly in every business.  They may be on the team – or they may be customers, suppliers or some other stakeholders.  These people can either suck up a disproportionate amount of your time, energy and money – or you can deal with the situation decisively.

For this Business Owners Forum event, we will assemble a  varied panel of three who have overcome significant challenges in this area – and who will discuss this topic from three different perspectives.  Full details including the three panellists will be posted here in the next couple of days.

This event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility on Constellation Drive, North Harbour at 5:30pm on Thursday 1 May 2014 – and will run through to 7:30pm on the night.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panelists.  And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues.  This event will be repeated in Newmarket on Wednesday 21 May.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell before this event fills up.  And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

Directors Duties & Responsibilities – Newmarket

19 March 2014

To become director of a company, all you need is to be appointed by the shareholders, to accept that appointment – and to not be a person disqualified from being a director under the Companies Act.  Simple.  But with that appointment comes significant duties and obligations – enforceable by significant penalties including the possibility of imprisonment under various Acts.

 

Here is our star panel for this event:

 

Bruce Sheppard – a non-politically correct agent provocateur, founder of the New Zealand Shareholders’ Association and director of several New Zealand companies.

Damien Grant – insolvency practitioner, director of Waterstone Insolvency Limited and a party to numerous court cases that have addressed the questions of director’s duties and liabilities.

Mark Wynne – a professional investor and director – and veteran of Fonterra in Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore leading Fonterra’s charge in the Asean region.

 

This event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility, Broadway, Newmarket at 5:30pm on Wednesday 19 March 2014 – and will run through to 7:30pm on the night.  Please note that although no two BOF events are ever the same, this will be more or less a repeat of the event held on 20 February at Albany.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panelists.  And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell before this event fills up.  And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

When does Limited Liability become Unlimited Liability? – Whangarei

140313---calendar-iconBack in 1897, three English Lords made a name for themselves by ruling that a company was indeed a separate legal entity from its shareholders.  The case was Salomon v Salomon, and the unanimous ruling was that the creditors of a company could not sue the shareholders to pay the company’s debts.

Thus the principle of limited liability for company shareholders was cast in stone – and this case continues to provide a precedent over a century later.

But when does the limited liability of shareholders become unlimited liability for the company’s debts?  Under what circumstances can you as shareholder or director find yourself personally liable for company debts?  Is this potentially a problem for you?  What can you do to protect yourself against this happening?  And conversely, what opportunities might be available to attack the shareholders and directors of a company that owes you money?

Our panel will address these questions on the day.

This event will be held at the Elevate CA Limited office, level 4, 35 Robert Street, Whangarei at 5:30pm on Thursday 13 March 2014 – and will run through to 7:30pm on the night.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panelists.  And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell before this event fills up.  And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.