On Thursday, 2^nd of September Cate celebrated 10 years with A B Accountancy, and we all look forward her wonderful company for many many more years to come.

Well done ladies it was truly inspiring to see you both aim for a goal and work your way towards achieving it. Maybe a few others will join you next yearJ.

The evening started with a bang,  A B Accountancy winning a ‘Guest Prize’ (which was randomly drawn from all guests who attended), giving Chris the opportunity to take the stage and announce to the room that Team A B Accountancy were in the room!!!

Then came the moment we had all been waiting for… (Drum roll)
A B Accountancy Pty Ltd took out Quest Business Achiever Award in the category of Professional Services. Anne took the stage along with the whole team to accept the award.

The Quest Business Achiever awards pay tribute to small businesses that demonstrate customer service excellence and innovation – Team A B Accountancy is thrilled to have won this award for the second year in a row.

In recognition of this a BIG congratulations to Cate Molloy for winning 2010 Staff Member of the Year Award!

With Tax time around the corner – A B Accountancy held a workshop on ‘Getting the MOST out of your RETURNS – Tax Planning for Smarties’.

Attendees braved a rather rainy winter evening to make their way to the workshop, 

to be informed on:

• All the things they can do before the 30^th of June to make the most out of their tax returns.
• How to avoid a BIG tax bill.
• Tips & tools to use…
• Etc

As seats were limited… If you missed out on a spot in this year’s Tax Planning workshop – send us an email on client@abaccountancy.com.au to be notified on next year’s Tax Planning workshop.

Armed with 200 balloons and packs of smarties, the team at A B Accountancy were very popular with all the children (and some adults) at the street festival. Within a few hours the whole street was a cloud of white A B Accountancy balloons.

Now if anyone reading this is planning to have balloons as part of their promotional mix…it’s a great idea as long as you don’t have the task of transporting balloons from one location to another…as we found out the hard way, it takes a very long time to untangling balloons.

The sausage sizzle was also a huge hit with a team of accountants, taking a break from doing fun accounting stuff to help out at the sausage sizzle stand, to feed the never ending line of customers who were keen to buy a hot treat on a chilly winter afternoon.

Over all it was a great afternoon of music, dancing, sausage sizzles and balloons with smarties.

June is TAX season; therefore will be holding a workshop on ‘TAX Planning for SMARTIES’  – How to get the most out of your return.

For more information & details on how to register:
07 3847 9499
bella@abaccountancy.com.au
Register NOW at: http://taxplanning.eventzilla.net

Wealthy Women Workshop which was held on the 28^th of April, 2010 was an evening of relaxed networking and information gathering. With a room full of enterprising females, the speakers navigated their way through, all the thing one should keep in mind when setting up your own business.

Due to popular demand we will be holding this work shop again in May – so if you have recently started your own business or are planning to do so, keen the evening to May 25^th free to attend.

To register for this event visit:
http://www.eventzilla.net/web/event?eventid=20100504257

We were there alongside about 100 other representatives from accounting firms from Australia and New Zealand for the Rob Nixon annual conference.  The focus was on goal setting and adapting to change.

The content of the conference was aimed at getting us focused on servicing our clients better through better business planning, improving our range of services and most importantly getting the team involved and motivated.  And of course bringing what we know back to our clients.  One of the team building exercises we encountered was the “Survivor Challenge” where we were to undertake in a team, a series of physical challenges – one of which was making Chris a Hawaiian Princess!

Left:  “Princess” Chris Wheatley.

 While in Hawaii we were inducted into the Rob Nixon Hall of Fame.  This award represents our contributions and commitment to the club.  It also embodies the following attributes:

- Serving as an exemplar to others in the profession

- The highest level of integrity, ethics and accountability

- Revenue growth and profit achievement

- Contributions of intellectual capital to the profession

- Continual, challenging, personal and professional development

- Risk taking and resilience

 Congratulations Team!

Although it was a whirlwind trip, we did manage to enjoy a cocktail or two…

 ….. and hire a couple of Mustang Convertibles to explore the island and the famed North Shore.

And we haven’t just come away with fond memories, we have developed brand new business services and introduced better processes to improve our standard of service.  We have experienced first hand the enormous impact a focused strategic planning session can be on an organisation and we intend to bring it back to our clients.  The process we went through can be compared to turning on the lights in a dark room. 

Now that Sheryl has retired she has more time to drag Rob to jewellery stores and now Rob’s retired he doesn’t have any excuses not to!