The Weight of the NDIS Transition By Sue Hirst To lead an organization within Australia’s care and disability sectors right now is to carry a unique and profoundly exhausting weight. Over the past several months, the landscape surrounding the National…
Reset this Financial Year: 7 Questions to Stress-Test your Business Every July, thousands of Australian business owners follow a familiar routine. They submit their records to their accountants and review past figures.
A New Financial Year Brings New Questions. Here’s How to Prepare. For many business owners, 30 June is viewed as a finish line—a breathless sprint to close the books and exhale. In reality, it is the starting line.
EOFY Shouldn’t Feel Like a Fire Drill How to Prepare Your Business for EOFY — Without the Panic Every June, the same scene quietly unfolds across thousands of SMEs.
The EOFY Reality Check: What Your Business is Actually Worth By Sue Hirst June tends to trigger something many SME owners don’t expect: a business value reality check.
Business That Ignore AI Will Fail By Sue Hirst The Conversation Most Businesses Are Having There’s a particular misconception sitting underneath a lot of the current conversation around AI in business. Most discussions tend to revolve around operations. Efficiency.
The Cash Economy is About to Get Much Harder to Hide from AI By CFO On-Call Team The Quiet Assumption Many Businesses Have Relied On For years, many small businesses have operated with a quiet assumption: if some cash income…
EOFY Planning Isn’t Just About Tax Anymore Why SMEs Need a Smarter Plan for the Year Ahead By Sue Hirst For many SMEs, EOFY planning has traditionally been about tax, compliance, and closing the books for the year.
EOFY Planning Isn’t Just About Tax Anymore By Sue Hirst Most business owners would never run operations, staffing, or customer service entirely on guesswork. Yet financially, many SMEs still do exactly that. Not deliberately—but gradually.
Your Accountant Keeps Score. A Virtual CFO helps you win the game A lot of business owners assume an accountant and a Virtual CFO do the same thing. They don’t.
Why Your Business is Drowning in “Profitless Prosperity”—And Why You Need a CFO You’ve seen the headlines: Australia’s SME sector is “resilient.” But on the ground, a strange phenomenon is taking hold in 2026—we call it Profitless Prosperity.
