What's New in June 2025?
Keep up to date with the latest updates and information from oms…
Not For Profits
National Volunteer Week (NFW) is being held 15-21 June. NVW honours the collective energies and efforts of volunteers across New Zealand. It’s a time to recognise and thank the millions of people who give their time and skills to our communities. This Year’s Theme: Whiria te tangata – weaving the people together - celebrating the power of volunteering to bring people together. At OMS we support many charities by volunteering our time, or helping them with their financials.
Business Mentors
It was valuable to hear in their latest webinar about talent strategies for small business, including how to attract star talent and the importance of making the right hire. I highly recommend you watch this webinar here.
Xero Files can be used to have a defined folder structure for key financial records. This enables you to share documents with outside contacts that need access to these records, ie accountants, bookkeepers!
* Consider having a default set of folders in Xero files. Ie ACC, assets, loans, vehicle HPS.
* This is a great to share documents for EOFY
* It depends on Xero user permissions who can see Xero files, so be mindful of commercially sensitive documents and who can view,
Fergus Favourites
Favourites allows you to build templates for jobs you do often. Group items and labour and save as a Favourite to build quick, repeatable quotes. Add your markups and you're away. Change markups as necessary. Build quotes in minutes. Need a hand with this? Reach out, we are here to help!
Employers take note..
The Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Act 2025 was inserted into section 64(2A) & 64(5)(b) of the Employment Relations Act 2000 and became effective 30 March 2025.
In summary, these changes have imposed more onerous and/or heightened legal obligations on employers to keep and provide easy access to a copy of an employee’s employment agreement.
AI Agents
ChatGPT recently introduced "Operators," AI agents that can book hotels, order food, and shop online, while other platforms are launching autonomous AI assistants that handle complex multi-step tasks without human intervention.
This involves defining the agent's purpose, choosing the right tools, setting up the AI model (ChatGPT), training it with custom data, and building the interface. Ironically you can ask ChatGPT to help you.