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GOVERNANCE

Guidance documents for company secretaries
www.firstfound.org/
A New Zealand perspective including the following:
• Company Secretary and the Performance Evaluation of Boards
• Powers and Duties of the Company Secretary
• Guide to minutes and minute-taking
• Electronic Document Management.

MANAGEMENT

Management Library
www.managementhelp.org/
A comprehensive collection of documents relating to the leadership and management of individuals, groups and organizations. Articles and documents are primarily authored by Americans but much of the content is of general interest.

Environmental Management
http://eco-verification.med.govt.nz/envirostep
Developed by the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development this free, entry-level for tool for small businesses provides users with:
• An environmental performance score & profile
• Recommendations to reduce operating costs, environmental impacts & risk
• An action plan to implement selected recommendations
• Over 300 links to other environmental tools, service providers & further information
those ouside New Zealand will still find benefit from 90% of what the tool has to offer.

FINANCIAL

Financial Calculators
www.dinkytown.net/
Free and easy to use online financial calculators

Financial Ratio Tutorials
www.investopedia.com/university/ratios/
Tutorials include simple explanations of how and where to use a comprehensive array of financial calculators. Including
• Liquidity Measurement Ratios
• Profitability Indicator Ratios
• Debt Ratios
• Operating Performance Ratios
• Cash Flow Indicator Ratios
• Investment Valuation Ratios


Introduction to Bookkeeping
www.dwmbeancounter.com/tutorial/Tutorial.html
Free bookkeeping tutorial geared to business owners, managers, and individuals who have not had any formal bookkeeping training or on the job experience and need or want to learn the basics of bookkeeping.

SALES

Monthly e-magazine for sales professionals
www.nzsalesmanager.co.nz/
Good quality brief articles. Whether you are a business owners or a sales professional there is always a quick to read quality nugget in this publication.

MARKETING

Web Marketing

www.nzs.com/
One place to start learning about web marketing, link to your web site, publish articles for cash.

www.webconfs.com/
Find out what all the jargon means. Lots of free tools to help you understand the how, when and why of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

www.webpagetest.org
Tests web pages against specific optimisation and performance criteria. Geeky if you are not in the web development field. Ask your web development people to explain obvious issues highlighted.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
A great tool that renders the page to text only. Quick links to print or forward original page link by e-mail. A real time saver.