

Rise Scholarship WINNER
Announcing the winner of our 2019 Rise Scholarship - Mikaila Thompson! Left to right: Campbell Brown (Labour Manager, Opt 4 Personnel),...
Lisa Johnston
Mar 21, 20191 min read


Plan Your Year Now
Around three years ago, my husband and I started planning our year out at the beginning of each year - we ensured we had this done by...
Lisa Johnston
Feb 27, 20191 min read


Payday filing - What are the changes?
Image from Xero What is Payday filing? Payday filing is a new method for reporting employment information, where you will file your...
Nicolene Pedersen
Feb 20, 20192 min read


Our Christmas Hours
The entire Sass team would like to thank our clients for their continued valued custom. We are lucky to have amazing clients whom we...
Lisa Johnston
Dec 10, 20181 min read


Xero's upcoming New Navigation experience
Xero are updating the Xero navigation bar, simplifying everyday tasks, so we can all easily find the tools and information we use most...
Nicolene Pedersen
Nov 14, 20181 min read


Nic Now Office Manager
We are excited to announce Nicolene is moving into the role of Office Manager, in fact she really has been doing that role for quite some...
Lisa Johnston
Nov 2, 20181 min read


11 Ways to Get Paid Quicker
Cashflow is king and if you don’t have good debtor strategies in place, then you may find that you are struggling with late payers and...
Lisa Johnston
Oct 15, 20182 min read


FBT changes a Win for shareholder-employees vehicles
There has been some positive changes regarding companies with motor vehicles that are being used for both business and private use by...
Kelly Miller
Aug 21, 20181 min read


Bite Sized Workshop: Where Has My Gone Cash
We are bringing to you a 1.5hr workshop that will teach you all about your hidden cash in your business, profit vs cash and strategies on...
Lisa Johnston
Aug 8, 20181 min read


Should you pay tax on the sale of your house (The bright-line property rule)?
If you are selling a residential property, that was not your family home and your original intentions were to make a gain on it, then you...
Lisa Johnston
Jun 22, 20181 min read


90 Day Trials, what you need to know...
What are the changes? In January 2018, the government announced changes to the 90-day trial period legislation. These changes mean that...
Nicolene Pedersen
May 15, 20182 min read


Outsourcing your bookkeeping can benefit your business by saving you time and costs.
Keeping your books up to date is important if you care about your business. Without quality bookkeeping, you won’t know how much cash is...
Lisa Johnston
Feb 23, 20184 min read


Introducing Sass’s newest workshops
Excel 2016 Beginner +, Excel 2016 Intermediate & MS Word 2016 Beginner – Intermediate. Our 6.5-hour workshops have been designed for...
Lisa Johnston
Feb 23, 20181 min read


AIM - new provisional tax option for small businesses
IRD has brought out a new way to pay provisional tax, which they have called AIM accounting income method. Basically, this is filing a...
Kelly Miller
Feb 23, 20182 min read


Minimum Wage Increase - To Increase ALL Wages or Not
When the minimum wage increases should you increase all wages by that amount? This is a question we are often asked, and a question that...
Lisa Johnston
Feb 16, 20183 min read


Introducing Xero Projects - manage job time, costs and profitability
Xero have just released Projects and we are busy testing it to ensure we 100% understand how it works. Projects is a simple time and...
Lisa Johnston
Oct 19, 20171 min read


A Cloud Based Chat App That's Replacing Email!!!
Is email dying... due to Slack helping businesses with email workplace sanity? Some businesses have even completely ditched email and...
Lisa Johnston
Sep 22, 20171 min read


Rest Breaks to be Paid Separately
Due to law changes to rest/tea break provisions; it has caused a huge admin nightmare for businesses that pay their staff piece meal...
Lisa Johnston
Aug 10, 20171 min read


Starting a New Business - Confident too Soon?
They say that 80% of businesses fail in the first three years. Pretty scary huh…and certainly sad. From what we see most businesses...
Kamila Ryantova
Jun 10, 20172 min read


Stop Doing it the Old Way
I love this saying! Do you know how many times I hear 'I do it that way because it's always been done that way'. In fact, I tell my...
Lisa Johnston
Mar 29, 20171 min read


Nurture Change – What’s in it for business owners?
Everyone hears the saying ‘work on your business, and not just in it’; and Nurture change helps you achieve that. In fact, it is a whole...
Lisa Johnston
Nov 24, 20162 min read


90 Day Trial - Facts That All Employers Need to know
Finally when the new 90 day trial period statute came into effect, employers had some sort of protection when trialling new employees. Cert
Lisa Johnston
Oct 6, 20162 min read