Noel Dyson

HERITAGE protection loomed as a major issue for the Perth City Council at its 29 November annual general meeting.

CREDIT management is set to become a major issue for companies operating on an accrual accounting basis under the new tax system.

INTERNET Service Providers as we know them today are an endangered species, says Access1 director Tony Brennan.

CLAIMS that small business prices under the New Tax System will rise by 10 per cent or more are unfounded, says Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Allan Fels.

WA COMPANIES are being asked to sign an accord that puts negotiation ahead of litigation in dealing with Y2K disputes.

WA’S small business sector is looking good and owners are positive.

WHILE a competitive power market place will bring discounts, those expecting eastern states-style price drops will be disappointed.

THE GST is having a profound effect on new car sales.Yet unlike consumers, businesses are not waiting for the GST and the expected fall in prices before purchasing says Westpac economist Justin McCarthy.

ADVERTISING agencies have to evolve or risk becoming extinct, says The Brand Agency chairman and managing director Ken James.

THE confusion surrounding insurance is on its way to being sorted out.

MULTI-disciplinary firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has taken a step into the legal world.

LISTEN to your customers. That is Samantha Wynne Australia owner Samantha Wynne’s creed.

ACCOUNTING guidelines for the GST system are more complex than they need to be, says The Bookkeeping Network’s Alex Polglaze.

SIGN up for a mobile phone and you could sign away your personal details. Buy a raffle ticket and you could go in more than just the draw.

KOOLJAMAN, a fully Aboriginal-owned West Kimberley tourism complex, has been named WA Indigenous Business of the Year for the second year running.

COUNCIL is not supporting plans to turn the Old Swan Brewery site into a complex with twenty-eight apartments, eating houses, offices and car parking.

BUSINESS advisors have been given $7 million worth of help to improve GST skills.

CLOUGH Engineering has won a $215.5 million coal mining contract in Indonesia.

WA employment showed a marked improvement in October, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures.Employment and Training Minister Graham Kierath said the figures were the biggest monthly jump in employment since March 1993.

AS THE 2000 Olympic Games draws closer, WA companies still have opportunities, says Olympic Commerce Centre director Nicole Quinn.

AUSTRALIAN companies are great innovators but poor commercialisers of their ideas according to the results of an Edith Cowan University study.

OCTOBER building approvals in WA are 10 per cent higher than a year ago, according to a report compiled by Construction Research of Australia.

Managers need to learn to deal with a growing work force faction – Generation Xers, says Minter Ellison national managing partner Phil Clark.

COMPANIES using between one megawatt and five megawatts of power a year can expect big discounts next year with the deregulation on 1 January of power transmission to the sector.

NEW research shows many small businesses are facing risk and expense by relying on verbal agreements with their staff over work conditions.

POLAND is growing as a marketplace and may prove a valuable beachhead into its developing, former eastern bloc neighbours.

TAX laws have become increasingly complex and the Ralph Review will not help, says Pannell Kerr Forster managing partner Richard Dickson.

WORLD demand remains high and market penetration is assured for sandalwood oils and its value-added products says Mt Romance managing director Stephen Birkbeck.

THE old Railway Hotel, now just a shadow of its former self, may soon live again.

PHYSIOTHERAPY is fast becoming a part of every horse’s pre-race ritual.

MORE than 300 insurance brokers who are potentially not registered have been found advertising in the Yellow Pages.

ONLY half the Australian workforce will hold full-time positions within a few years according to Catalyst Recruitment managing director George Zammit.