Archives for December 2013

Difficult people can either suck up a disproportionate amount of your time, energy and money – or you can deal with the situation decisively.   They seem to crop up regularly in every business – they may be on the team – or they may be customers, suppliers or some other stakeholders.

For this Business Owners Forum event, we will assemble a  varied panel of three who have overcome significant challenges in this area – and who will discuss this topic from three different perspectives.  Full details including the three panellists will be posted here before the end of March.  Please note that although no two BOF events are ever the same, this will be more or less a repeat of the 24 April event in Albany.

This event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility, Broadway, Newmarket at 5:30pm on Wednesday 21 May 2014 – and will run through to 7:30pm on the night.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panelists.  And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell before this event fills up.  And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

Difficult people seem to crop up regularly in every business.  They may be on the team – or they may be customers, suppliers or some other stakeholders.  These people can either suck up a disproportionate amount of your time, energy and money – or you can deal with the situation decisively.

For this Business Owners Forum event, we will assemble a  varied panel of three who have overcome significant challenges in this area – and who will discuss this topic from three different perspectives.  Full details including the three panellists will be posted here in the next couple of days.

This event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility on Constellation Drive, North Harbour at 5:30pm on Thursday 1 May 2014 – and will run through to 7:30pm on the night.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panelists.  And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues.  This event will be repeated in Newmarket on Wednesday 21 May.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell before this event fills up.  And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

Back in 1897, three English Lords made a name for themselves by ruling that a company was indeed a separate legal entity from its shareholders.  The case was Salomon v Salomon, and the unanimous ruling was that the creditors of a company could not sue the shareholders to pay the company’s debts.

Thus the principle of limited liability for company shareholders was cast in stone – and this case continues to provide a precedent over a century later.

But when does the limited liability of shareholders become unlimited liability for the company’s debts?  Under what circumstances can you as shareholder or director find yourself personally liable for company debts?  Is this potentially a problem for you?  What can you do to protect yourself against this happening?  And conversely, what opportunities might be available to attack the shareholders and directors of a company that owes you money?

Our panel will address these questions on the day.

This event will be held at the Elevate CA Limited office, level 4, 35 Robert Street, Whangarei at 5:30pm on Thursday 13 March 2014 – and will run through to 7:30pm on the night.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panelists.  And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell before this event fills up.  And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

Becoming director of a company is easy.  All you need is to be appointed by the shareholders, to accept that appointment – and to not be a person disqualified from being a director under the Companies Act.  Simple.  But with that appointment comes significant duties and obligations – enforceable by significant penalties including the possibility of imprisonment under various Acts.

Here is our star panel for this event:

Bruce Sheppard – a non-politically correct agent provocateur, founder of the New Zealand Shareholders’ Association and director of several New Zealand companies.

Damien Grant – insolvency practitioner, director of Waterstone Insolvency Limited and a party to numerous court cases that have addressed the questions of director’s duties and liabilities.

Mark Wynne – a professional investor and director – and veteran of Fonterra in Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore leading Fonterra’s charge in the Asean region.

This event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility on Constellation Drive, North Harbour at 5:30pm on Thursday 20 February 2014 – and will run through to 7:30pm on the night.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panelists.  And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues.  This event will be repeated in Newmarket on Wednesday 19 March.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell before this event fills up.  And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.