Happy New Year, We are all back at our desks after the festivities and summer break. 2021 has started well with a lift in the milk prices for our Fonterra supply clients. Covid continues to be in the news and we nervously remember last year’s lockdown right at the end of the financial year. We […]
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Hi All, It’s getting lighter in the mornings and I can drive home without needing my headlights! Our farming clients are all busy (as are we) getting on with our jobs. The economy is still flat and hence the unpredicted 0.5% cut in the cash rate. This will flow through to the borrowers in time
Greetings Happy New Tax Year! We have been super busy with work and recruitment/training of new staff. We have recently opened the New Plymouth branch of Hughson & Associates. It’s on the corner of Devon Street East & Hobson Street. We have two dedicated client carparks out the front. Call in Monday to Friday 8.30am
Greetings Spring has arrived! Since we last chatted, we are a team member down, with Daniel leaving us to work in Auckland at the Airport. We suspect that there is a female involved. 🙂 We are in the recruitment process but is proving difficult to find a suitable replacement. This has meant we have fallen
Greetings We are now in full tax season (like spring time on the farm) and our move to Xero is starting to show efficiencies. The team are still refining their abilities on the new system, so further efficiency awaits….I hope. On the MAAT front, we completed the $42m purchase of Cameron Road, Tauranga and our
Greetings I hope you all had a marvellous Christmas and happy new year! The drought has now been confirmed and as a result the Government has allowed a relief package to assist affected farmers. Please contact our office if you wish to discuss these options. The office has now made the jump to the cloud
Greetings WOW – how the weather has changed – now we would welcome the odd shower! With calving / breeding and the election behind us, we look forward to the festive break. This year we will be closing on Thursday 21st December 2017 and re-opening 08th January 2018. Those of you based near Patea can
Greetings Wet, wet and more wet. I have never seen so much water (and mud) in Taranaki. Roll on a few sunny days to dry us all out a bit. The office has been busy with GST returns last month and I have been busy with my Maat hat on working on our latest syndicated
Greetings After a wonderful summer for dairy farmers we now get a very wet autumn. The team at Hughson & Associates are all back from their breaks and working hard on the 2017 financials that flow in after 31 March. This edition contains an article relevant to our TRUST clients. This New Act is a
Fonterra has blessed us with long awaited news of a lift to $6! This will certainly help our farming clients and will flow through to our retail and commercial clients in due course, helping the townies. With this lift taking us well up from the $3.90 of last season and the initial forecasts of $4.25
