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The County Tipperary Business Awards Black Tie Gala Dinner took place on Friday 18th October at the 4☆ Clonmel Park Hotel, with a packed house of 270 guests which included Minister John Paul Phelan, Mayor of Clonmel Gareth Ahearn, Members of Tipperary County Council and the various agencies who support business in the County. It also saw Seán Gallagher, entrepreneur and former Dragon’s Den panelist, keep the night flowing and the crowd entertained in his role as MC.
 L-R: David Shanahan - CEO County Tipperary Chamber, Deirdre Clune MEP, Garret Ahearn - Fine Election Candidate for Tipperary, Laura Jones - Sales & Marketing Manager Clonmel Park Hotel, T.J. Kinsella - President of County Tipperary Chamber County Tipperary Chamber were recently honoured with a visit from Deirdre Clune MEP to the Chamber headquarters in Questum Acceleration Centre, Clonmel. Deirdre updated us with ongoing issues in the European Parliament and items pertaining to Brexit. The Chamber raised issues such as the essential upgrade of the N24 to become the M24 and the importance that Irish business taxation remains in the realm of our Department of Finance. Our thanks to Garret Ahearn for his help in organising this visit.
 The Cost of Insurance working group run out of the Department of Finance has asked us to survey our members.
The survey is hosted on SurveyMonkey and can be found on the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ChambersCostofInsurance We will distribute the results following the closure of the survey. The survey needs to be completed by the 8th of September. The Bottleneck that stops Cashflow Understanding the importance of cash flow is something that is not always considered. Business focuses on selling and invest heavily into this area and of course rightly so! No customers no business, but business owners on their endeavours to expand their organisations often forget that the cash has to flow from those lucrative sales. Where cash stops flowing is in the often-overlooked Debtors ledger or Accounts receivable file. It bottlenecks in Days Beyond Terms waiting for action and becomes the bane of the sales person and the worry of the business owner. How do you ask to be paid without upsetting the customer? The answer is simple don’t let the customer go beyond the payment terms you agreed but if they have start immediately on a collection process as everyday counts. But what about the relationship, they won’t buy my services again if I look to get paid or send a debt letter? If the customer valued the service you provided would they delay payment to such an extent it puts your business in jeopardy. Business goes out of business because of business! You need to find out why they are not paying you and It’s usually one of the following three bullet points.
cash-flow? At the Ward Group, we provide a unique professionally managed service to SME’s called Ledger Management Services {please see more detail below}. It is an outsource credit control solution covering the domestic and international markets at a fraction of the cost of employing a full-time credit controller/accounts personnel and in a short space of time it pays for itself. It is an always on service that “Gets you paid on Time”.  For More Information Contact: Paula Carney-Hoffler E.I.I.C.M Credit Mgt.Cert,DipLaw Client Credit Risk & Compliance Manager Hugh J Ward & Co Solicitors 9 Seville Place Dublin 1 Mobile: 087 2681891 PCarney-Hoffler@hughjwardsolicitors.ie  We are currently collecting feedback and insights through our online questionnaires aimed at Employers, Professionals, and Stakeholders both inside and outside the region. Pixelpod are also busy developing the branding guidelines, the alignment of the existing brands, and developing the marketing strategy to support the brand id. We will be meeting with several groups in early September to discuss our progress and include their feedback, including Fintech/Global Business Services; Tourism; and the Local Authorities. We hope to reconvene this marketing and branding group in late September and I will revert in due course with a proposed date/venue. In the meantime if you can complete our main questionnaire: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SouthEast-Professionals-and-Employers. Thanks for your assistance and I look forward to meeting you again soon. Kind regards, Richard Richard Hickey Project Executive, South East Action Plan for Jobs, c/o EI Regional Offices, Waterford Industrial Estate, Cork Road, Waterford. M: 087 6729820 E: richard.hickey@seapj.ie  Another milestone for James Whelan Butchers: A Great Taste Award James Whelan Butchers are A Chamber member of Course!   The GDPR is the single biggest change in Privacy Legislation in a generation and the clock is already ticking. The GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the 27th of April 2016 comes into force on the 25th of May 2018. It clearly focuses on the rights of the Data Subjects, security of data, consent, data breaches, Data Protection Officers, processor liability and the requirements of organisations to meet those rights. The GDPR is applicable to all business from the Small Home Operator/SME to the Large Multi-National and all Public Agencies and Authorities. GDPR is not a fad or a Y2K scenario but a substantial piece of regulation that needs to be met and administered from Board level in an organisation. If an organisation does not meet the regulation the fines are substantive and dissuasive. In plain language from the 25th of May 2018 if your organisation is not in compliance with the regulation you will be fined and ignorance of the regulation is not a defense. Where we talk about substantive and dissuasive, you are looking at fines as high as €20 million or 4% of Worldwide Turnover, or €10 million or 2% of Worldwide Turnover from the prior year, whichever is the greatest. Additionally, Data Subjects who have been impacted by a breach in the regulation are now afforded the right to compensation through judicial process. The first significant item to note is that this is a Regulation and not a Directive and does not require any Local Law to facilitate it. It is to be adopted immediately by all member states and those that process EU natural persons’ data be they processing the data in the EU or not. There are some significant areas of change that need to be addressed immediately. Below we have highlighted just a few of them;
For further information and support of GDPR readiness you can contact Paula Carney-Hoefler, E.I.I.C.M. Credit Cert, Dip Law, Client Credit Risk & Compliance Manager, The Ward Group on +353 (0) 872681891 or pcarney-hoffler@wardgroup.ie For further |
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