Illum – Plastic and other cost savings

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Budgeting for plastic and other cost savings and sustainability improvements is one of those challenges requiring careful examination and costing of all unintended outcomes.
It is easy to say we are going plastic-free and then grump when the cost of the replacements increases. Cause and effect accounting reviews the underlying production costs, which, of course, amongst other reasons, push up the purchase price.

Competing against cheap imports that receive subsidies is another market force affecting price budgeting since dawn itself. Some changes simply require a return to using base renewable materials that are quickly replaceable.

Collaboration between tasks enables realistic cost improvements, self-reliance and acceptance of diversity within understanding.

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THE ESG TICKLER – Episode 41

Regeneration never sleeps.

In episode 41, the upcoming FBT changes to electric vehicles begin to raise chatter. Many in the business are affected.

Electric vehicles are described as zero or low emissions vehicles. But what is the definition of a hybrid and how do those FBT changes affect existing salary packages?

What is a zero or low emissions vehicle? A zero or low emissions vehicle, which is eligible for the FBT exemption, is defined as:

(a) a battery electric vehicle, or

(b) a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle, or

(c) a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and this exemption is to end 31 March 2025.

However, the exemption will continue to apply if the use of the vehicle was exempt before that date, and there is a financially binding commitment to continue providing private use of the vehicle from that date.

The objective of the exemption is to encourage a greater take up of electric cars.

Regeneration is our commitment.

Zero or low emissions vehicle tests are changing

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Illum- Pathways to decarbonisation

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Decarbonisation is a broad term. It looks at many different ways everyone can alter actions to reduce emissions. How can this term be actioned?

Carbon in and carbon out measurement is in the realm of science. By taking an accounting approach to the inputs and outputs of your space a peaceful sanctuary can be achieved.

Whether you like a raw, rustic look, clean and clear, or a high gloss finish. By trusting your instincts on what you like, you can see ways to reduce your carbon output.

There is always something in the mix and by including everyone in the understanding of your goals. Capturing and putting carbon back in its place becomes an imaginative and achievable goal.

Ways to get started include.

  • Compile a list of the plants and trees in your immediate environment.
  • Research their carbon storage by reviewing online calculators.
  • Check your energy bill.
  • List your appliances.
  • List your carbon layers.

Global decarbonisation starts with focus. Accounting helps you get there.

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Illum – Training and budgeting

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A common budgeting misstep that needs attention is overlooking training planning for task education and knowledge updates in each quarter of expenses.
When time budgeting constitutes a crisis, safety and focus join the critical drivers. Emphasizing these aspects will instil a sense of security and direction, helping your team navigate crises effectively.
Natural stresses accompany all tasks, but tangible actions, when taken, help a workforce adapt to changing conditions. Those adaptions keep everything on track—safety, costs and sales.
The tipping point of budgeting missteps is when connecting with ourselves takes a back seat.
Professional accountants help build models that consider known and future values. Managing cash flow and margin interruptions from costly time and effort errors is integrated.
Collaboration between tasks enables realistic self-reliance and diversity of understanding.

We grabbed our image to help deliver this explanation from https://www.do2c.com.au for a touch of irony.

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THE ESG TICKLER – Episode 39

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In episode 39, the upcoming end of the FBT year and changes to HR salary packaging affect the business.

Electric vehicles and the FBT packaging treatment of them, is about to change. The team must begin to consider their salary packages, investor reporting and management reporting to budget.

On 12 December 2022, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Electric Car Discount) Bill 2022 was enacted to provide an FBT exemption in respect of eligible electric vehicles. The exemption retrospectively applies to eligible car benefits provided from 1 July 2022.

The objective of the exemption is to encourage a greater take up of electric cars by making them more affordable and to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions from the transport sector.

Regeneration is our commitment.

Time for salary packaging reviews

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Illum – Training Costs

Training costs against hiring expenses. Weighing this business growth means creating a space for education. Education creates a unique business point of difference that affects all operations.

Accounting for training is a budget item often trimmed or overlooked in a growing business. After all, every business wants its staff to know what they are doing, right? Who is responsible for keeping them up to date? Should they be accountable for their training?


The answers to these questions depend on the industry and the amount of speciality within your business. Suppose your business/machines are unique and highly specialised. Those skills you teach your staff are valuable to you but less valuable to them than to demonstrate to new employers that they are good learners.


Putting a cost value on staff training becomes a decision between the cost of constantly training new staff or rewarding loyal workers. Knowledge sharing in the fledgling period triggers future experience advantages for measurement—both approaches reward. Accountants, when assembling a budget, review all spaces and inputs. These calculate a whole business effect, which is shown in the reporting. E. G an ESG model. This technical report to investors, which a professional accountant creates, looks at the business’s future potential.

Learning and quickly applying the business owner’s approach to staff training will reveal which growth paths lead to profitable outcomes.

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Illum – Accounting for contamination inputs

Contamination inputs are avoidable

A contamination input reduction approach in production helps to reduce the cost of the finished sale and improves the business’s broader view through its margin and ESG community impact report.

All businesses consume products to create their finished item. For example, this blog uses a computer, keyboard, energy, water, personal costs, fixed and variable office costs, and input distribution costs of the inputs and the output to the point of purchase.

Valuing a finished good for sale is subjective, and professional accountants enhance models with alternative calculations to provide valuable advice on improving a business owner’s margin and community footprint.

By reducing contamination input costs, a business can manage unintended side effects in selling the final product.

Contamination inputs are avoidable

Stop greenwash. We grabbed our image to help deliver this explanation from https://www.do2c.com.au for a touch of irony.

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Illum – Accounting for introduced inputs

Introduced inputs a new chatter topic

Defeating introduced inputs into a production line, which unintentionally devalues the finished product, is an expensive issue for any business.

Production sales rely on a point of difference from competitors. If no point of difference is available, managing natural stresses remains the difference between volume sales success or failure. Sales evaporation quickly strikes the point of difference in sales.

Tactical experience within the workforce is often the first point of the process to aid the valuation of a production line variation. Newly introduced inputs sometimes backfire.

Professional accountants help businesses tackle production line diversity by calculating the product circle and highlighting movement impediments before the production footprint.

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Stopping the gossip. We grabbed our image to help deliver this explanation from https://www.do2c.com.au for a touch of irony.

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THE ESG TICKLER – Episode 37

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In episode 37, the whole business braces itself for two significant impacts.

They are about to start exploring novel ways to meet the budget goals live and operate in a light-touch way.

Thinking about a solution from what they have learned so far. Discovering a way to achieve it without hurting and keeping those in charge happy.

Regeneration – that’s our commitment.

Episode 37 the mid year budget review starts

The ESG Tickler – Episode 35

In episode 35, here is an update on our water checklists and ideas. We use this comic to quickly introduce the internal business efforts that support our Environmental, Social and Governance.

Exploring novel ways to change just one small thing is the ESG Ticklers dream. Just one novel and sustainable idea to reuse or redirect water enables us to work in harmony and operate the business sustainably and does not need a massive education effort.

The best ideas come from simple observations.

Here is one for your ESG team to consider. We hope you enjoy the results of this water idea.