We know it can be tough getting started in a competitive world.
BDO is backing start-ups and those new to business in Taranaki by offering unique services discounted for a two year period to get you underway.
BDO understands the pressures of starting up a new business and wants to assist with accounting and tax administration while getting you up to speed on some of the fundamentals of business which can sometimes take a backseat to the key tasks - getting a business off the ground and making sales happen.
The BDO Business Incubator is a complete business package and support to help grow new and emerging businesses. The package includes:
Educate and Energise – a monthly networking and educational series with other incubator members. These sessions provide an opportunity to learn about a variety of business basics and then a chance to mix and mingle with others in the same business development stage facing the same types of challenges. The monthly sessions will be presented by BDO and our partners and include topics such as:
- Business compliance obligations
- Marketing
- Working smarter
- GST basics and processing
- Insurance and risk
- Taxes – provisional taxes, tax rates, deductibility of expenses
- Budgeting
- Business planning
- Reporting and dash boarding
- Funding options
- Lean thinking and manufacturing
Certainty of fees – agreed annual fees for specified tailored services. No need to worry about extra costs when you’ve got a query. Regular touchpoints throughout the year are incorporated into your plan.
Access to office facilities – Need a meeting room or some printing done? BDO Taranaki board and meeting rooms and printing and copying services available to use.
Dedicated BDO advisor – build a relationship with your dedicated BDO advisor who will help to guide you along your business growth journey.
Professional networks – access and introductions to BDO’s professional networks for any additional services you may need.
Funding – When the business has reached certain milestones BDO can facilitate funding through Venture Taranaki Capability Vouchers for support services and coaching.
Software set up – free MYOB, Xero and Reckon set up and initial training by one of our specialist BDO software team members.
Software discounts – we’ve partnered with MYOB, Xero and Reckon to provide some free and specially discounted software packages for our members.
If you are in the first five years of business, a new or developing business who wants to share and collaborate, are keen to learn and want to develop your networks then talk to us about the BDO Business Incubator and how we can help get your business off the ground.
Join us for a taster of the first of our monthly Educate and Energise series and to celebrate the launch of the BDO Business Incubator. This is your chance to come along and without any obligation, enjoy our hospitality and check out whether the BDO Business Incubator could be right for your business.
BDO Business Incubator Partners
Educate and Energise Series Topics
Upcoming sessions
January 2018
Planning & goal setting
What do you want out of 2018? Join us for a Educate and Energise session on setting goals and making plans for the year ahead – and, more importantly, we’ll share some strategies for achieving them!
We’ve all made New Year’s resolutions in the past that have been quickly forgotten about, or are not realistic when the holiday period is finished and day-to-day life takes over again. The aim of January’s session is to identify goals that will make a positive difference to your business (and life!) and that YOU CAN ACHIEVE over the next 12 months. Often the hardest part is formulating a plan and being accountable so this will be a key outcome of the session.
Other sessions will cover:
Working smarter
Everybody is always looking for the time to grow their business so let us tell you how you to gain efficiencies using technology – Inland Revenue online, software and online banking.
GST
When do I need to register? What can I claim? When do I claim it? What if I make a mistake? Find out about GST basics and processing.
Insurance and risk
One of our partners will share the key facts on insuring yourself and your business and minimising your risks.
Taxes
Let us take you through the tax essentials – provisional taxes, tax rates and what expenses you can and should be claiming.
Marketing
Marketing is of critical importance to a new business – hear from one of our expert marketing partners on how to get your business out in to the market place.
Understanding financial statements
You need these completed every year – but what are they telling you, what do they mean and how can you use them to grow your business?
Christmas catch up
A guest speaker will talk about their experiences in establishing and growing a successful business.
Budgeting
New year, new you. A great time to think about setting a budget for the upcoming financial year. We will tell you what you need to do to put one together and how you should be monitoring it.
Employer obligations
Got staff? Thinking of taking some on in the future? Steps to be taking and key things to consider to ensure you are meeting your obligations as an employer.