This guide helps New Zealanders turn their ideas into world-beating products, business and brands. Whether you’ve got an idea of your own, you’re working on other people’s ideas or you’d simply like your company to be more innovative, you’ll find essential answers in these pages.

With less than a month to go until the end of the financial year (for businesses with 31 March balance dates), business owners need to consider the following as part of good business practice. If you haven’t already done so, now is the time to review your records to assist in the timely and efficient preparation of your accounts. There are also several opportunities for you to minimise your end of year taxation expense.

Hayes Knight and Nick Jones, Director - Sustainable Advantage are mentioned in the 'Leading the way' segment of the 'Clean & Green' section in the NZ Herald.

Statutory Financial Reporting Announcement for Large Companies Further to the debate caused by the recent discussion document proposals we are delighted to advise that the Government has listened to submissions such as those made by Hayes Knight and others. As a result they have announced that large private companies will not be require to file their annual financial statements on the public record.