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benefits of benchmarking

The Benefits of Benchmarking

Research clearly shows successful businesses aren’t afraid to compare themselves to their competitors and ask the hard questions. Businesses that do not make competitive comparison, furthermore, tend to be over optimistic about their relative position, preventing them from making realistic and fruitful changes. Hard data provided by benchmarking.com.au takes the guess work out of assessing [...]
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buying a business

Before you buy a business

Benchmarking is an essential resource if you are thinking about buying a business. The best starting point is to obtain a copy of the Australian Benchmark Report for the industry or sector your looking at buying into. It can help you to measure the past performance of a business to see how it performed against [...]
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Xero Add-On Partner

Benchmarking.com.au is a Xero Add-On Partner

At Benchmarking, we have been a Xero Add-On Partner since 2014. This partnership allows us to provide our users with a more streamlined and efficient benchmarking process. This includes enabling businesses to import their financial data directly from Xero into our platform, making the benchmarking process not only faster but also more intuitive and user-friendly. [...]
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NSW Small Biz Connect Programm

After a succesful Trial in late 2012, NSW Trade and Investment has signed up to use the benchmarking.com.au platform for its Small Biz Connect program. An extract of the department news release issued on May 23rd 2013 reads: NEW RESOURCES TO PATCH THE GAPS FOR SMALL BUSINESS Minister for Small Business Katrina Hodgkinson today launched […]

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accountants benchmark module

The new Accountants Benchmark module is set for release in June 2013

Since the release of our new benchmarking.com.au plaform in October 2012, we’ve been working hard to integrate the most important industry benchmark of them all: The Accountants Benchmark. Planned to go live at the end of June, users of the Benchmark Suite get access to: Online questionnaire Instant reporting with ability to export to Word, […]

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benchmark your clients

The ATO benchmarks your clients, why don’t you?

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has created benchmarks to assist small businesses with business improvement and to identify businesses that may be avoiding their tax obligations by not reporting some or all of their income. The new main target of the ATO benchmarks is the cash economy of Australia, making it harder for businesses to [...]
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industry profiles

Industry Profiles – Know your client’s industry

Industry Profiles give the reader an understanding of the drivers of success in a given industry and how they can assist businesses in making more informed decisions. Benchmarking.com.au will release at least one new Industry Profile every month, providing you with an ever increasing list of industries to choose from. All new releases will be [...]
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