# Business Planning #### ESS BIZTOOLS Blogs [ 1st Dec, 2021![Implementing Systemisation - Session 2 Accountant’s Role Is A Bit Like A ‘Financial Sherlock Holmes’](https://www.essbiztools.com/images/zoo/blogs/2021/am300-3.jpg) Implementing Systemisation - Session 2 Accountant’s Role Is A Bit Like A ‘Financial Sherlock Holmes’ Accountant's Minute 300 Andrew Geddes, Accounting Industry Coach and former Chair of Greencross Ltd, a Top 200 ASX company joined Peter Towers, Managing Director, ESS BIZTOOLS for a discussion in Session 2 of the ESS BIZTOO… - Tags: [Debtors' Days Outstanding](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Debtors'%20Days%20Outstanding) | [Key Performance Indicators](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Key%20Performance%20Indicators) | [Scaling Up](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Scaling%20Up) | [SME Needs' Analysis](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/SME%20Needs'%20Analysis) Read more ](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/implementing-systemisation-session-2-accountant-s-role-is-a-bit-like-a-financial-sherlock-holmes) [ 27th Aug, 2021![Grants Are A Great Diversification Service](https://www.essbiztools.com/images/zoo/blogs/2021/am286.jpg) Grants Are A Great Diversification Service Accountant's Minute 286 One of the obvious diversification strategies that accountants can pursue is to assist SME clients to have a better understanding of the government grants that are available and to assist clients in… - Tags: [Accelerating Commercialisation Grant](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Accelerating%20Commercialisation%20Grant) | [Business Growth Grants](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Business%20Growth%20Grants) | [Entrepreneurs' Program](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Entrepreneurs'%20Program) | [Export Market Development Grant](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Export%20Market%20Development%20Grant) | [Predictive Accounting](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Predictive%20Accounting) | [Research & Development](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Research?Development=) Read more ](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/grants-are-a-great-diversification-service) [ 18th Jun, 2021![It’s Time!](https://www.essbiztools.com/images/zoo/blogs/2021/am275.jpg) It’s Time! Accountant's Minute 275 Business Advisory Services has been talked about for the last decade and has got a little bit closer to becoming a mainstream accounting industry service each year, over that 10 year period. The Com… - Tags: [Achieve Targeted Profit](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Achieve%20Targeted%20Profit) | [CommBank Accounting Market Pulse Report](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/CommBank%20Accounting%20Market%20Pulse%20Report) | [Professional Service Firms’ Charge Out Rate Calculated](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Professional%20Service%20Firms%E2%80%99%20Charge%20Out%20Rate%20Calculated) | [Retail Businesses’ Product Mixes And Mark-Ups To](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Retail%20Businesses%E2%80%99%20Product%20Mixes%20And%20Mark-Ups%20To) | [To Achieve Targeted Profit](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/To%20Achieve%20Targeted%20Profit) Read more ](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/it-s-time) [ 27th Jul, 2016![Business Planning is an Important Component of Business Success](https://www.essbiztools.com/images/zoo/blogs/2016/07/AM71.png) Business Planning is an Important Component of Business Success Do you know that small/medium enterprises, identified in the CCH’s survey of small businesses a couple of years ago, said that business plans were one of the key services that small/medium enterprise… - Tags: [Business Plan](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Business%20Plan) Read more ](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/business-planning-is-an-important-component-of-business-success) [ 20th Jul, 2016![2016/17 - The Year of Business Advisory Services!](https://www.essbiztools.com/images/zoo/blogs/2016/07/AM70.png) 2016/17 - The Year of Business Advisory Services! Welcome to 2016/17, the year of business advisory services. Do you know that the Accounting Market Pulse, produced by the Commonwealth Bank in their December 2015 issue, forecast that the top servic… - Tags: [Business Plan](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Business%20Plan) | [Personal Property Securities Register](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Personal%20Property%20Securities%20Register) Read more ](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/201617-the-year-of-business-advisory-services) [ 8th Jun, 2016![Accountants – June is the Time for Business Planning](https://www.essbiztools.com/images/zoo/blogs/2016/06/AM64.png) Accountants – June is the Time for Business Planning The 30th June is only a few weeks’ away. It’s a great time to sit down and talk to your clients on formulating formal plans for 2016/17.Business plans are like “maps for tourists”. If you don’t kno… - Tags: [Key Performance Indicators](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Key%20Performance%20Indicators) | [Personal Property Securities Register](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Personal%20Property%20Securities%20Register) | [Work in Progress](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Work%20in%20Progress) Read more ](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/accountants-june-is-the-time-for-business-planning) [ 5th May, 2016![Accountants – every SME needs a business plan!](https://www.essbiztools.com/images/zoo/blogs/2016/05/AM60.png) Accountants – every SME needs a business plan! Business plans are like maps for tourists. If your client doesn’t know where they’re going, how are they going to know when they get there?Having a business plan enables the business to periodically… - Tags: [Business Plan](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/tag/Business%20Plan) Read more ](https://www.essbiztools.com/ess-biztools-blogs/accountants-every-sme-needs-a-business-plan)