By ADAM DAVY

OPINION: We have recently had school holidays and Labour weekend, and it brought home the fact to me that the busier you are, the more breaks you need.

By ADAM DAVY

OPINION: Yeah right. Accountants have never been regarded as thought leaders. More steeped in the past, as the World’s second oldest profession. Even Double Entry bookkeeping has been around for 500 years.

By ADAM DAVY

OPINION: Being stuck in a traffic jam can be very frustrating for all sorts of reasons, but none more so than if you value your time and run a busy business.

The amount of time companies are taking to pay bills is improving and is nearly at pre-crisis levels, Dun and Bradstreet said.

By ADAM DAVY

OPINION: You must be joking, a few months of negligible growth and we are officially out of the recession?

By ADAM DAVY

OPINION: I, like many, have watched the evolution of the mobile phone. It is clearly the enabler of our times.

The most common opportunity to emerge from the economic recession is the chance to knock over a competitor.

By ADAM DAVY

OPINION: We’re a funny lot us Kiwis. I wrote a few weeks ago about family trusts in “Is an investment trust the devil incarnate?” on 31 August.

By NICK CHURCHOUSE - The Dominion Post

There is no such thing as an iron-clad trademark, a Wellington intellectual property expert says.

By ADAM DAVY

OPINION: Those who make the most money in this world are the self employed.

By CLAIRE McENTEE - The Dominion Post

Caffe Italiano is one of a growing number of businesses using free micro-blogging service Twitter to connect with customers.

OPINION: For business, to have out-of-date technology is foolhardy because your competition will soon pass you by, writes Adam Davy.

By ADAM DAVY

OPINION: No one ever said you were compelled to pay the maximum amount of tax possible.

By NICK CHURCHOUSE - The Dominion Post

Business owners are relying on selling up to retire, an assumption that will leave many forced to sell cheap, accounting firm Grant Thornton says.

By TINA LAW - The Press

New Zealand companies need to place more emphasis on design to increase their profits, Christchurch product designer Nigel Sharplin says.

The Dominion Post

If a business has your money or your goods, and then goes bust, what can you do?

By ADAM DAVY

OPINION: The chocolate war involves two iconic brands, the juggernaut that is Cadbury and the little Kiwi battler in Whittaker’s.

By GARETH VAUGHAN - The Press

Three high-profile former executives are offering their advice to medium-sized private businesses as a wave of ownership change is tipped to hit the sector.

By ADAM DAVY

Two losses in a row! Heads should roll; sack the Coach, the Players, the Captain and the hanger-on.

Pacific Island business leaders will be getting advice from New Zealanders under a new mentoring programme announced today.