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Xero launches global add-ons marketplace

28 August 2014 management and job costing. “There are 42,000 active installations of add-ons in use – a 280 per cent increase in the last year. And, last month alone, there were over 60,000 visits generated from our marketplace to our add-on partners, a 28 per cent...

• Type: Article
• Author: Staff Reporter
• Category: Business

Accountants looking to switch SMSF software

28 August 2014 Report, 19 per cent of accountants in the SMSF space are considering changing their software providers, up from 16 per cent last year. OneVue head of platform strategy, sales and service, David Storm said the increase is based around technological...

• Type: Article
• Author: Staff Reporter
• Category: Super

Opportunities in the corporate bond market

26 August 2014 bonds with a fixed coupon. Floating rate bonds are bonds that deal as a margin to the bank bill swap rate (BBSW), and the last bond is the inflation-linked bond where the performance of the bond is linked to the quoted inflation number. There are other...

• Type: Article
• Author: Mark Todd, Director, NAB Fixed Income
• Category: Business

Chan & Naylor warns FoFA will be lose-lose

25 August 2014 barely scratch the surface and don’t deal with the underlying issue of how this industry has been behaving over the last 20 to 30 years,” said Mr Hasib. “This is driven by remuneration and right now there are simply are too many noses, with vested...

• Type: Article
• Author: Staff Reporter
• Category: Business

SME confidence on the rise

20 August 2014 cent of business owners anticipate growth in the next 12 months while 46 per cent of owners reported revenue growth in the last 12 months, and just 20 per cent reported a decline. Andrew Graham, national head of business solutions at RSM Bird Cameron...

• Type: Article
• Author: Staff Reporter
• Category: Business

PwC appoints two leading lawyers

18 August 2014 Mr O’Malley was King & Wood Mallesons' managing partner Australia and its deputy global managing partner until early last year. Mr Blue was the managing partner responsible for the firm's Corporate M&A and Tax practices and has held various other...

• Type: Article
• Author: Michael Masterman
• Category: Appointments

KPMG announces 2013/2014 results

18 August 2014 tax partner in Singapore. Thirty-eight new partners and executive directors were appointed during the year, up from 35 last year, reflecting investment across all divisions. Twenty-four percent of new partners were women, with a healthy female...

• Type: Article
• Author: Michael Masterman
• Category: Business

Q&A: Matthew Taylor talks about selling practices

15 August 2014 selling practices, is there much activity in the market right now? There has been increased buyer and seller activity in the last 12 months - this has come off the back of some extremely low turnover. There is a significant amount of buyers in the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Staff Reporter
• Category: Business

Dealer group launches 'simple' licensing solution

14 August 2014 at this time was a ‘no-brainer’ as we can now go forward knowing Eagle Financial is trained and compliant – avoiding the last minute panic to fulfil ASIC requirements and as a result, it will be business as usual for our clients in July 2016.” For...

• Type: Article
• Author: Michael Masterman
• Category: Business

Bentleys opens new office

12 August 2014 that the Auckland office will look to capitalise on the changes the New Zealand accounting industry has experienced over the last few years. “The accounting industry is facing significant changes, both in New Zealand and in Australia. Nick and I saw an...

• Type: Article
• Author: Michael Masterman
• Category: Business

Tax office targets compliance costs

11 August 2014 reducing compliance costs for business by progressing several “key strategies” in the coming year. In a statement released last week, the ATO said it is committed to reducing compliance by “providing contemporary services and making it easier for people...

• Type: Article
• Author: Staff Reporter
• Category: Tax

Q&A: Amanda Gascoigne talks opportunities and threats

08 August 2014 really successful accounting practices, but one that they are not slaves to. I am very proud of my achievements over the last 15 years in business and over 20 years as an accountant as being a trusted advisor to so many individual clients and SMEs....

• Type: Article
• Author: Staff Reporter
• Category: Business

RBA rate announcement - August 2014

05 August 2014 evidence in the minutes to indicate that the board is seriously considering this option,” he said. The Reserve Bank forecast last month that the cash rate would remain at 2.5 per cent for at least one more year. The consensus among the economists...

• Type: Article
• Author: Staff Reporter
• Category: Business

Prepare for changes in SMSF space, says IPA

05 August 2014 doing and where they’re going.” Ms Stylianou’s comments come after research from Vanguard and Investment Trends, released last week, showed 31 per cent of investors used an accountant between 2012 and 2014 to set up their SMSF, compared with 53 per cent...

• Type: Article
• Author: Michael Masterman
• Category: Super

Q&A: Economist Shane Oliver discusses business confidence

01 August 2014 the peak of confidence in 2010, before they both turned at the same time, and then of course as we went into the election last year they both rose at the same time. Consumer confidence has been hit harder because most of the measures in the Budget were...

• Type: Article
• Author: Staff Reporter
• Category: Business

Pain or Gain? What's driving accounting firms to change technology?

01 August 2014 with both small and large accounting firms on implementing new business technology across Australia and New Zealand over the last 15 years has shown me that there are some clear reasons why some businesses find moving to new technology simple and others...

• Type: Article
• Author: Sam Allert
• Category: Technology

Deloitte announces another big name recruit

31 July 2014 crisis response and reconstruction projects.” “He received the national award for planning excellence in Australia last year and is a member of the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery technical advisory group”. Harvey...

• Type: Article
• Author: Michael Masterman
• Category: Business

Accountants losing ground in SMSF space

31 July 2014 looking to set up an SMSF cited property investment as a reason for establishment, up from 34 per cent at the same time last year. Twenty-one per cent of those planning to set up an SMSF also cited access to borrowing within superannuation as a driver...

• Type: Article
• Author: Katarina Taurian
• Category: Super

CPA slams idea of apolitical tax commission

31 July 2014 government will have to sell a whole package, Mr Drum said. “That’s what the Howard-Costello government did so successfully last time, they sold a package, they went to an election on eliminating a raft of inefficient taxes and broken taxes, like sales...

• Type: Article
• Author: Michael Masterman
• Category: Tax

Prosperity poaches new director

22 July 2014 chief executive officer, Allan McKeown said Ms Sellick’s appointment follows strong fee growth in the firm’s Sydney office last financial year. “We have stepped up our recruitment activities and have assembled an expanded team of which Siobhan is a key...

• Type: Article
• Author: Michael Masterman
• Category: Business