MoneyWorks Business Angel Award

Terms and Conditions of Entry

Please read these terms and conditions carefully. If you enter for this Award, we will assume you have read these rules and agree to them.

Terms and Conditions of entry into the MoneyWorks Business Angel Award.

1. Introduction
   1. These Terms and Conditions (“the Rules”) shall be binding on any business or organisation that enters the MoneyWorks Business Angel Award (“the Award”) promoted by Cognito Software Ltd (“Cognito”)
   2. No purchase or payment is necessary to enter the MoneyWorks Business Angel Award. Copies of the Rules are available on request from Cognito Software Ltd: —Please e-mail enquiries to info@cognito.co.nz
   3. Entry into the competition shall be deemed unconditional acceptance by the participating organisation of the Rules. Any other specific details provided by Cognito pertaining to the competition or the prizes form part of the Rules.
2. Eligibility
   1. The competition is not open to employees (or members of their immediate family) of Cognito.
   2. Only one entry per organisation, with the proviso that accounting firms may enter themselves and any of their clients.
   3. This competition is open to commercial businesses, charitable organisations and not for profit organisations that are:
      1. resident in New Zealand; and
      2. duly authorised to enter; and
      3. agreeable to receiving communications about MoneyWorks, the competition and the MoneyWorks Business Angel Award.
      4. agree to having their accountant onsite at the time the MoneyWorks Accounting Software is installed and setup
   4. This competition is open to accountants and accounting firms that agree to have a partner on site for the installation and setup of the MoneyWorks Accounting should they win.
   5. If, in the opinion of Cognito, the organisation’s accountant is not sufficiently experienced with MoneyWorks Accounting Software, a MoneyWorks Consultant will be provided to facilitate implementation.
   6. Entry to the competition is via the website accessed from and linked to in the competition literature. Contestants must answer a series of questions. A panel of three judges evaluates the answers and decides on five finalist and eventual winner, by majority decision.
   7. The five finalists must agree to an online interview by the judges, and sign a copy of these terms and conditions and return it to Cognito prior to the interview, to be eligible for the Award.
   8. The five finalists will be separately interviewed online, and the winner selected that, in the sole discretion of the judges, best meets the objectives of the Award.
   9. All decisions of Cognito judging panel are final and conclusive. No communication or correspondence will be considered or replied into.
   10. Cognito reserves the right to disqualify any entry not made in accordance with these terms and conditions.
   11. Incomplete entries will be ineligible for consideration by the judges.
   12. All entries must be by way of the website by the closing date specified in the competition. However, Cognito reserves the right to extend the competition end date at any time.
   13. All entries are the property of Cognito and will not be returned to the contestant.
   14. Contestants must be able to provide corporate details as reasonably requested by Cognito. Refusal to comply with a reasonable request will result in disqualification.
3. Publicity
   1. By entering the competition the winner agrees to participate in such promotional activity and material as Cognito may require
   2. Cognito may publicise, broadcast or otherwise disclose a competitor’s, or its employee’s, name, character, likeness or statements concerning MoneyWorks or this contest.
   3. Cognito may promote or advertise that an entry is a finalist, and that a winner has won the contest.
   4. Cognito may incorporate information from contestants in a database for the purpose of its business.
4. The Winner
   1. The five finalist organisations will be chosen from the eligible entries. The five finalists will be notified by phone, post or e-mail in August 2012.
   2. Anyone may find out who the five finalist organisations are by emailing info@cognito.co.nz after 31 August 2012.
   3. From the five finalist organisations the judges will choose the winning organisation. The name of the winning organisation will be announced in the October edition of the New Zealand Business magazine.
   4. The winning organisation will receive $15,000 dollars paid by electronic transfer to its bank account.
   5. Additionally, the winner will receive a copy of the latest MoneyWorks Accounting Software, provided the organisation doesn’t already own a copy, plus $5,000 worth of installation and setup time for the MoneyWorks Accounting Software.
   6. If the winning organisation owns a copy of the latest MoneyWorks Accounting Software they will still receive $15,000 dollars paid by electronic transfer to the organisation’s bank account, and additionally the organisation will receive accounting support and/or MoneyWorks support and/or training, to a maximum value of $5,000 dollars.
   7. The winning organisation’s accountant must be onsite at the organisation’s offices to assist with the setup and implementation of the MoneyWorks Accounting Software.
   8. If the winning organisation is an accounting firm the senior partner must be on site to assist the setup and implementation of the MoneyWorks Accounting Software.
   9. Implementation and/or training of the MoneyWorks Accounting Software must take place in September and/or October 2012.
5. Prizes
   1. No part of the Award is transferable.
   2. The product or a service element of the Award cannot be redeemed for cash.
   3. The winning organisation cannot elect to accept just a part of the Award.
   4. The cash component of the Award will be paid to the winning organisation.
   5. If any part of the prize is no longer capable of being provided, the winning organisation of the Award will receive a substitute prize as determined by Cognito.
6. Exclusion of liability
   1. Cognito is not liable in any way for any costs, expenses, damages, liability or injury arising out of, or in any way connected with, the competition or prizes, other than those costs and expenses specifically provided for in the prize.
   2. Cognito shall not be liable to perform any of its obligations under the competition or in respect of the prizes where it is unable to do so as a result of circumstances beyond its control.
   3. Cognito accepts no responsibility for the tax implications that may arise from the prize winnings.
   4. Cognito accepts no liability (and excludes all liability) for any loss of profit, business, contracts, revenues or anticipated savings for any special, direct indirect or consequential loss of any nature howsoever arising.
7. Jurisdiction
   1. These Rules shall be governed and construed in accordance with the Law of New Zealand