In the first of a six-part series on mergers and acquisitions, Mark Beyer looks at who can help with buying and selling of businesses, large and small.
A RECENT survey by CPA Australia has highlighted the potential fall-out from the rising cost of professional indemnity (PI) insurance cover for accountants.
TIGHT budgets, a tough stock market and investors watching for any signs of corporate extravagance have removed the gloss from the business of producing annual reports.
THE Federal Government has announced measures to improve the so-called Simplified Tax System (STS) and foreshadowed other changes to further improve the tax system.
CHANNEL 9 Perth has won the third week of the 2003 survey period – thanks to the gripping finish to the World Cup Cricket match between India and Pakistan on March 1.
MOST of Perth's top real estate agents held their ground in the WA Business News Book of Lists 2003, with little change recorded among the top 20 agents from the previous year.
PERTH hospitality guru David Weinman has been commissioned by The Marketing Pepper Board of Malaysia to promote Sarawak pepper across the globe. And what better place to start than in his home town, Perth?
The dawn is rising on another vintage and, as David Pike discovers, it could be a pretty good one.
IT has approached that time of the year when I get to see dawn on a daily basis.
ONE sixth of Western Australian farmers are planning to shift some or all of their business from their main bank over the next 12 months, a new study has found.
MUCKINBUDIN wheat farmer Allan Watson and Morawa wheat farmer Chris Moffet should have a lot in common.
But their common interest in the future of WA's grains industry is divided by their off-farm roles.
ELEVEN years ago, a small group of WA farmers shook up the State's fertiliser market when they started undercutting the big players with cheap imports.
DROUGHT conditions throughout much of Australia have not stopped farmers from dipping into their pockets to purchase big-ticket tractors and combine harvesters.
ALCOA watchers would have had a fascinating few days last week.
The company's Australian-born executive vice president John Pizzey was here for a few days and did some high profile presentations.
ELECTORAL Affairs Minister Jim McGinty's decision to embark on a costly High Court challenge to the weighting of WA's rural electorates provides a suitable opportunity to revisit this issue.
IT research firm META Group envisages good growth for its services in WA and has appointed a full-time regional WA manager, Geoff Large, who is charged with developing the group's presence in WA.
SEVERAL independent supermarkets have launched a campaign to reduce the number of plastic shopping bags their stores use each year in light of the proposed 25-cent plastic bag levy.
ONE week after surviving a threatened Aliquot Asset Management boardroom spill, Michael Perrott and Antony Rigoll have avoided a similar battle with shareholders at Phosphate Resources Limited by stepping down as directors.
THREE months after WA's Commissioner of State Revenue announced a payroll tax amnesty in relation to ‘contractor' payments, the issue is still causing disquiet in the business community.
PART of the folklore of Christmas Island revolves around the fire that swept through the union offices not long after the death of union secretary Gordon Bennett.
THERE are at least eight common law tests that can be used by the courts to decide if a worker is a contractor or an employee, according to law firm Deacons.
GOVERNMENT and regulators must act to ensure standards in the financial planning industry are lifted, together with improved disclosure standards, according to the Association of Su
