Business Fitness NZ turns 10!
Interactive accounting content firm Business Fitness NZ provides New Zealand accounting professionals with a single
source of authoritative and practical information to make them more productive. The progressive Mt Maunganui company has
just turned 10.
Business Fitness NZ provides innovative solutions for accountants that include a range of over 1500 ‘how to’,
process-driven compliance and service templates as well as electronic work papers, documentation kits and software and
client development tutorials and webinar programmes.
The company was sold last year to CCH New Zealand Ltd, a Wolters Kluwer business. CCH is a leading global provider of
tax, accounting and audit information, software and services and has served tax, accounting and business professionals
in New Zealand since 1974.
Mr Russell Evans, President of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Asia Pacific and Chief Executive Officer of Wolters Kluwer Asia Pacific, said that clients of Business
Fitness NZ and CCH have both benefited significantly from the acquisition.
“We welcomed the addition of the Business Fitness NZ team and products to Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting in August 2011. This acquisition was a strategic move that has seen the complementary strengths of our
premier content resources and best-of-breed solutions and service offerings give New Zealand-based accounting firms
significant opportunities to increase their profitability and performance to global best practice levels,” Evans said.
Business Fitness NZ General Manager Julie Benton said the acquisition demonstrated a clear commitment by CCH to invest
in leading New Zealand Intellectual Property and has built on the strengths of both organisations, as well as enhancing
the company’s services to clients. She said the team of six at Business Fitness NZ is closer to its clients than ever
before.
“Most of the clients we first signed 10 years ago are still our clients to this day. We hear from some clients every
week, and some we never hear from unless circumstances are dire. They are always welcome to pick up the phone and call
us whether it’s with a problem, a great idea, or just to chat,” Benton said.
The Business Fitness NZ journey has seen many highlights. The growth of the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly benchmarking survey – ‘the biggest, most comprehensive benchmarking survey of the New Zealand accounting industry’, The
Accountants’ Big Day Out, the launch of its prized Client Development Centre to provide clients with the training and
support that they need to get the most out of Business Fitness NZ’s Content Solution not to mention several babies,
marriage proposals and fellowships.
“Having said that, our biggest achievement has been the countless relationships we’ve formed with the 400+ firms who’ve
joined the Business Fitness NZ party. They’re a clever, proactive bunch who keep us on our toes. They also give us the
support, knowledge and direction we need to keep on delivering what we do best.
“We look forward to the teenage years. With ideas already in the pipeline no doubt we’ll throw in some exciting
surprises and keep the journey fun and fresh.”
About Business Fitness NZ
Business Fitness New Zealand (BFNZ) (www.businessfitness.co.nz) is headquartered in Mount Maunganui and provides integrated workpapers and highly practical content solutions to more
than 400 accounting firm customers in New Zealand. CCH and Business Fitness NZ serve tax and accounting professionals in
the same segments of the market and we share the same value proposition: We are keenly focused on our clients and
deliver best-of-breed integrated content and process solutions that are designed to improve their productivity and
enable them to deliver a better result to their own clients. Business Fitness NZ’s innovative content contains a range of over 1500 “how to”, process-driven compliance
templates (updated at least monthly for legislative changes) to make an accountancy practice more systemised, efficient
and profitable. Additionally, their content integration training programs are tailored to suit businesses systemisation
needs.
About CCH New Zealand Ltd., a Wolters Kluwer business
CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business (www.cch.co.nz) is the leading global provider of tax, accounting and audit information, software and services. It has served tax,
accounting and business professionals since 1974. Its market-leading workflow solutions help professionals use
technology and information to improve their efficiency, productivity and profitability. CCH New Zealand is the leading
publisher and information provider for the professional services industries, including tax, accounting and financial
planning, bankruptcy and insolvency, corporate and business law, competition and consumer law, conveyancing and
property, court practice, human resources, employment and safety. CCH New Zealand products are authored by an in-house
team of experts that work with consulting authors who are industry-leaders in their field.
About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a market-leading global information services company. Professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax,
accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare rely on Wolters Kluwer’s leading information-enabled tools
and software solutions to manage their business efficiently, deliver results to their clients, and succeed in an ever
more dynamic world. Wolters Kluwer had 2010 annual revenues of €3.6 billion (US$5 billion/£3.1 billion), employs
approximately 19,000 people worldwide, and maintains operations across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin
America, serving customers globally. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. Its shares
are quoted on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices.
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