Mark Beyer

THE large paperwork and compliance load on small businesses has been highlighted by a new tax office report on its compliance program for 2002-03. The report itemises the volume of paperwork facing Australia’s 2.5 million ‘micro’ businesses;

SEVEN WA companies paid more than $1 million to their top executive in their latest financial year. The big payers are heavily biased towards WA’s largest companies, ranked by market capitalisation.

THOSE business people lucky enough to have a break over the next few weeks have an ideal opportunity to review their business’s health. “It’s important to get out of the daily grind and think about where you are going and what you want to achieve

A RECENT Macquarie Equities report on SME banking was titled Small Business: River of Gold. It’s a title that should send a chill down the spines of small business operators.Macquarie estimated that SME banking would generate at least $2.8 billion in...

THE banking industry is looking to business lending to take up the slack following an expected drop in housing lending.Business lending increased by just 4.3 per cent in the year to September 2002, according to the Reserve Bank.This compares with 19..

WA business icon Clough Limited is officially a public company but retains the character of a family company, according to broking analysts.This harsh assessment follows Clough’s shock profit warning earlier this week, which analysts believe reveals ...

THE editorial team at WA Business News has been strengthened with the appointment of Mark Beyer (right) as senior journalist.

RESIDENTIAL property has delivered very pleasing returns for investors over the past few years, in stark contrast to the dismal returns from shares.

RESEARCHERS in the US are focusing not on investment fundamentals but investor psychology to explain the wild swings in investment markets.