For the latest Building Your Business podcast, we bring you the final episode in our 'Importance of Estate Planning' miniseries, featuring special guest: Ann Janssen - Founder & Special Counsel, Estate First Lawyers.

In Part-Three of the series, Chris Lewis hosts Ann, alongside Ian Walker & Valda Glynn as they discuss estate planning for business structures, and how crucial it is for SME business owners to understand what happens to their entities on death or incapacity and what they can put in place to ensure that these entities pass into the right hands.

Across the episode, each will highlight the critical legal and accounting issues associated with ensuring business owners have their wealth (both personal and business) covered, in the event the individual can no longer manage it.

Furthermore, throughout the discussion, each will simplify the technical components surrounding Asset Protection, Trusts, and Self-Managed Super Funds and their relationship with the estate planning process - providing business owners with clear and informative insights.

For the latest episode of the Building Your Business podcast, we bring you part-two of our 'Important of Estate Planning' miniseries, featuring special guest: Ann Janssen - Founder & Special Counsel, Estate First Lawyers.

In Part-Two of the series, Chris Lewis host Ann, alongside Ian Walker & Valda Glynn as they discuss the essential components in organising your estate when involved in a blended family relationship.

As one of the most litigated areas of Estate law, across the episode, each speaker will highlight the critical Legal and Accounting issues - including explanation of Estate Claims, Super claims and death benefits, Family Provisions, Inheritance Contracts and tax issues, and how effective structuring and understanding of these areas provide you with the best chance of your future wishes being upheld with minimalised risk.

Furthermore, throughout the episode, Ann provides her expert insights into the mistake to avoid and potential strategies to help mitigate unnecessary legal disputes during a highly sensitive period of time for families.

For our latest special interest episode of the Building Your Business podcast, Chris Lewis & Valda Glynn highlight the Healthcare sector, hosting special guests from Core Schedule - Healthcare Rostering Solutions.

Featuring speakers Dr. Stephen Pool (CEO/Founder) and Jasmin Kelly (General Manager), across the episode each discuss a number of operational management issues relevant within the Medical sector, and how software automation can build effective business strategy at General Practice and Enterprise levels.

Alongside this, collectively discussed in the focus on the allocation of people and staff resources within clinics, and how a specialist rostering platform can help Principal Practitioners, Specialists, and Management teams streamline internal processes and business procedures.

For our latest episode focusing on the Management Rights industry, Chris Lewis and Smiljan Jankovic (Management Rights Specialist, Archer Gowland Redshaw) host Vanessa Sciortino - Special Counsel, Nicholsons Solicitors.

With over 15 years' experience in the legal sector, Vanessa practices in the areas of Management Rights, Hotels & Motels, Body Corporate, and Property Law. Vanessa is an AMBA Industry Accredited Practitioner, Associate Member of ARAMA and an industry-preferred supplier for financiers in Management Rights.

Throughout the episode, Vanessa & Smiljan provide the latest best-practice insights from a legal and accounting perspective involving Management Rights complexes. Across the discussion, each highlight the common issues associated with top-ups & exercising options (and the differences between the two), renewal strategies where a manager may find themselves in a dispute with their Body Corporate, the purchase process including the Body Corporate consent process, whether or not claw-back clauses continue to be relevant, and how best to support new entrants in the sector.