South East Metro - Business Enterprise Centre Inc - a one stop shop small business advice centre
The Business Enterprise Centre (BEC) is a not-for-profit organisation that provides quality, low-cost advice to start-up and established businesses. The centre is located in Welshpool, Western Australia, and is part of a national network of 110 Australian Business Enterprise Centres. The BEC has operated for over 15 years and is partially funded by the Australian government.

The 10 most common mistakes of small business owners - to be avoided at all cost.

1. Starting or buying a business where no genuine business opportunity exists.
2. Spending 80% of the available cash on capital investment [immediately becomes worth a lot less] and leaving no working capital to run the business.
3. Buying a franchise expecting the franchisor to provide the business smarts they lack - just does not happen.
4. Trying to operate a business with no prior business or industry experience - stick to what you know / get some business experience.
5. Not paying attention to the numbers - they do not lie.
6. Not taking management accounting advice before starting and on a quarterly basis thereafter.
7. Not having a business plan of any description.
8. Having no perception of the value of a $ and what it can buy.
9. Surrounding themselves with advisors,family, friends who all lack any business experience.
10. Asking for help when it is all just too late and available resources are completely drained.

Please take advice before taking a blind leap of faith!
Why repeat the mistakes of many that have gone before when all of the above are easily avoidable.

It has taken a while and the penny has dropped.
The BEC is about to migrate completely to using a cloud hosted server instead of running our own and we expect to make considerable savings by doing this. Our entire operation and all of the data files that entails will be cloud based. 
Even better all of our Accounting / Bookkeeping and BAS clients will now have live 24/7 access to their  accounting files - a major step forward. No loss of backups, no exchanging files on a USB stick or by Big file transfer etc.
But wait there is more... monthly dash board reports and detailed accounting reports with KPI's to show each of them how they are tracking on a Quarterly basis all prepared by our CPA accountant Connie Stubbs.
All part of our low fixed priced bookkeeping packages and low cost fixed price accounting packages.

Join us for a Webinar on March 31

Have a legal issue you need advice on?
Do you foresee legal risks for your business?
Do you need to hire a lawyer or should you do it yourself?

Join us for this webinar and have all your legal questions answered. This session is FREE and could save you time and money.
Be informed when faced with your next legal problem.

Title:        FREE Legal Advice with Havilah Legal
       
Date:       Thursday, March 31, 2011
       
Time:       11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AWST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.


Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/437832558

Webinar March 23rd at 11 am [WA Time] Presented by Chris Gray - Business Advisor and Ross Ludwig CPA

Join us for this "straight to the point" session on how to find & hire a good accountant.
This session is FREE and it could save you thousands of dollars and countless hours of frustration.

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/815152870

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

In our first 'Ask a CPA' Webinar yesterday Ross Ludwig CPA provided some excellent accounting and business advice to both start up and existing business owners. These session will run on a regular basis as we grow our BEC Webinar program.