Events

Elevate CA hosts regular events for business owners - including the monthly Business Owners Forum events which alternate between Auckland and Whangarei venues. A big part of the Elevate CA ethos is to share our knowledge and skills with the business community that allows us to thrive.

In line with this ethos, Elevate CA events are always free of charge - and have no strings or sales pitches attached.

Below is a full list of events hosted by Elevate CA, or events where we are involved as sponsors, supporters or presenters.

Using Other People’s Money in your Business – Newmarket

Businesses generally need to use people’s money to some extent to provide the cash that is the lifeblood for a business to operate. This may involve bank loans or overdrafts, asset finance agreements, credit terms offered by suppliers, funds owed in the future but not yet payable to IRD – or loans from shareholders, friends, family or fools. With all of these arrangements comes an obligation to repay the funds – usually on an agreed date in the future.

The number one challenge for many businesses is managing cashflow so these future obligations can be met while leaving a cash surplus to fund growth or dividends to the owners.

This Business Owners Forum event is about funding your business’s cashflow needs – and managing cashflow so obligations to others can be met. This Business Owners Forum event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility in Broadway, Newmarket at 5:30pm for a 5:40pm start on Wednesday 17 May – and will run through to 7:00pm.

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 panellists. 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. Although no two Business Owners Forum events are the same, this event will be more or less a repeat of the event held in Albany on 20 April.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell (fraser@elevateca.co.nz) 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.

Using Other People’s Money in your Business – Albany

Almost without exception, businesses use other people’s money to some extent to provide the cash that is the lifeblood for a business to operate. This may involve bank loans or overdrafts, asset finance agreements, credit terms offered by suppliers, funds owed in the future but not yet payable to IRD – or loans from shareholders, friends, family or fools. With all of these arrangements comes an obligation to repay the funds – usually on an agreed date in the future.

The number one challenge for many businesses is managing cashflow so these future obligations can be met while leaving a cash surplus to fund growth or dividends to the owners.

This Business Owners Forum event is about funding your business’s cashflow needs – and managing cashflow so obligations to others can be met. This event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility on Constellation Drive, North Harbour at 5:30pm for a 5:40pm start on Thursday 20 April – and will run through to 7:00pm.

Dealing with Difficult People in your Business – Newmarket

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.

This Business Owners Forum will include the latest thinking from the legal profession – as well as some practical anecdotes and advice from a business owner giving some insight into what can go right and wrong when treading these waters.

This Business Owners Forum event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility in Broadway, Newmarket at 5:30pm for a 5:40pm start on Wednesday 15 March – and will run through to 7:00pm.

Dealing with Difficult People in your Business – Albany

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.

This Business Owners Forum event will look at this issue from the practical and legal viewpoints with panellists with a story to tell from each perspective.

This Business Owners Forum event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility on Constellation Drive, North Harbour at 5:30pm for a 5:40pm start on Thursday 16 February 2017 – and will run through to 7:00pm.

Can you Trust your Trust – Newmarket

Many business owners hold valuable assets in Trust in the hope that will protect them from financial attack. But can you trust your Trust when it comes to the crunch?

Under what circumstances can a liquidator bust your Trust if your business falters – or through the misfortunes of an unrelated person? What does it take to properly manage your Trust? What effect will the proposed changes to Trust legislation have for you?

This BOF event will include the latest thinking from the legal profession – as well as some horror stories about what can and has gone wrong and what you can do to ensure you can trust your Trust.

We have assembled a quality panel to discuss these issues.

This Business Owners Forum event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility in Broadway, Newmarket at 5:30pm for a 5:40pm start on Wednesday 16 November – and will run through to 7:00pm.