Whether you're a small start up or a business with 50 employees, every business should have an accountant. They are still often thought of as bean counters, but it's been a long time since that's all accountants were good for. These days accountants are more like business partners, than bean counters and so knowing how they can help you and how to find the right one for your business is important.

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Welcome to another episode of business unboxed! This episode covers dashboards!

• ​What are they
• ​What do you use them for
• ​How to create a dashboard
• ​Common mistakes

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Starting a new business is hard and I wish more people knew, so I decided to record this episode about 5 things that I learnt when I started a business.

We are now halfway through 2024, so this episode discusses some things you should include in a mid-year business review. These can be applied any time you wish to complete a business review, which most often will be either at the start, end, halfway or each quarter of your financial year.

These include

1. Preparation

2. Review Performance

3. Evaluate Goals

4. Identify Opportunities & Challenges

5. Strategic Adjustments

6. Communication

7. Follow-up

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Billions of $$ each year get taken from businesses through fraud, this episode is to shed some light on some internal controls you can implement to help reduce the risk of internal fraud happening in your business.

Are you planning on starting a business soon? Then I recommend you listen to this episode of the Business Unboxed Podcast to learn about some misconceptions you may believe in that are not quite true when it comes to starting a business.

Part 3 of 3. In this Business Risk episode, I discuss how to manage or mitigate some of the common risks in business. Some of which are financial, reputational and cyber.

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Part 2 of 3. In this Business Risk episode I discuss how to create a risk register, the risk assessment matrix or RAM, which we use to measure risk likelihood and impact and the most common types of risks.

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Part 1 of 3, for this new Business Risk series on the Business Unboxed Podcast. We cover what risk is, when you need to review and analyse risk. How to go through a SWOT or PESTEL analysis, so you can start pulling together your risk register for your business to be better prepared for what might come your way in business and have plans in place to help handle these.

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This episode explores some different areas of Finance and Accounting and whether or not I believe AI will fully take them over or just aid Finance and Accounting teams.

We have seen a huge increase in the use of AI over the past 10 years and so looking 10-20 years in the future what will the Finance and Accounting side of Business look like? Listen to hear my take on it!