Small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in Australia employ some 3.9 million people in about 1.2 million enterprises. SMEs are critical as a growth engine for the nation’s economy, with productive small businesses having universal economic importance.
Since 2005, RSM Bird Cameron has been conducting thinkBIG, a study of SMEs across Australia to gain insights into what drives success in these businesses.
thinkBIG 2009 has found that SME owners remain reasonably optimistic about their business’s medium-term prospects.
(Source: RSM Bird Cameron)