Pacific Trade Invest Australia is continuing to upskill tourism operators and provide practical steps to improve basic financial management skills.

Presenter Information:

Alice Niumata-Leota is a highly motivated and results-driven certified public accountant in Samoa and Australia, offering 15 years of professional accounting and management experience.

She has a master's degree of Professional Accounting; a master's degree of Commerce Specialisation in Financial Planning from Deakin University in Australia, and a Bachelor of Management Studies, majoring in accounting and finance from the Waikato University in New Zealand.

Alice is also a partner at Leota & Niumata Chartered Accountants (formerly Isitolo Leota Chartered Accountants). The accounting firm has been performing business assurance and accounting services in Samoa since 1992 to private, not-for-profit and government organisations.

As a BLP approved advisor, Alice offers services in strategy and business planning, information technology systems, accounting and financial management and financing and loan facilitation to SMEs based in Samoa.

Session Overview:

Topic 1: Financial Reporting Tools & How They Can help you Analyse and Understand your Business issues

Topic 2: How To Prepare a Simple Cashflow Forecast Template

Topic 3: How The Tool Helps You To Plan For Your Business