Budget speech

It’s that time of the year again. Financial year end is approaching for a lot of us. The State of The Nation address has passed, the Budget speech is approaching and crunching numbers seems to be the norm for the next week.

Whilst crunching these numbers, have you checked to see how much you are actually spending on electricity for the year?

In three years time it is predicted that you will be spending double that amount. Check the number, Double it.

Shocking.

spending on electricty makes you wanna pull the plug

Saving on costs has never been this important, but let’s think of this in a different way.

Instead of SAVING lets stop SPENDING, and have government initiatives work FOR us.

We have already explained the Eskom Low energy reward program to you (http://thornlite.blogspot.com/2012/02/eskoms-low-energy-lighting-reward.html).

So instead of only saving on your electricity usage, stop spending or converting your light fittings by letting Eskom pay for a majority of your costs- and to top it all off we deal with the admin FOR YOU. So in essence all we NEED from YOU is approval.

Why?

Take 1: If costs increase, your profits decrease; when your profits decrease you might have to adjust your product price, if you do so you might lose customers to competitors.

Take 2: If costs increase, your profits decrease, you start cutting back on the wrong costs, and you lose valuable employees and work with a skeleton staff.

Take 3: If costs increase, and your company is strong enough to survive them, you might want to start selling stocks on the JSE. You cannot be listed in the JSE if you do not comply with the KING III. The King III focuses on People, Planet, and Profit.

Saving money and retaining employees helps you comply with: People.

Saving electricity helps you comply with: Planet.

Saving on costs helps you keep your: Profit margin up, helping you stay solvent.

The Light Solution to your Budget problems.

Stop Spending.

http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_ZA/za/services/taxservices/theannualbudget/ac10703074bf4310VgnVCM3000001c56f00aRCRD.htm

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/eskom-still-pursuing-mandatory-savings-safety-net-2012-01-30