Business Tools and Templates

Nature Coast Enterprise has developed a number of business tools to help your business, including:

• Business planning guidelines
• Business case guidelines
• Project terms of reference guidelines
• Job description template

Other Online Business Tools

Department of Labour

The Department of Labour Web site hosts some very good online tools for business, including:

Click here for holiday entitlements

Click here to build an individual employment agreement

Click here for parental leave entitlement

Inland Revenue

If you are new to business and/or new to employing staff and looking for all the information in one place, click here to access online tools from IRD about business tax and GST.


Statistics New Zealand

Statistics New Zealand provides a business toolbox - a free suite of online tools that enables quick and easy access to information for businesses.  There are two tools:

1.  Market Mapper - visually pinpoints target markets using 2006 Census data.

2.  Industry Profiler - provides details on industry performance over time, staff turnover and survival of similar sized businesses

Click here to access this business toolbox.