SMALL businesses need to act now to decide if bad debts are recoverable or should be written off, debt collection agency Prushka says. Chief executive Roger Mendelson said many business owners forget to review debts until the end of the financial year. To obtain a tax deduction for...

  April 1, 2009 - 1:43PM After earning a rapacious reputation during Australia's long boom, retail landlords are slowly coming to their senses, learning from the disaster of the British retail collapse and doing quiet deals with troubled tenants. The choice between reduced rent and a shop...