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  1. Mid-tier hits out at accounting bodies on government lobbying

    Group and the Digital Business Council.” CA ANZ also spoke of the increased red tape for accountants themselves. “The last few years has seen an increasing level of additional regulatory burden, both in terms of compliance and financial costs. Most...

  2. The cloud and its impact on big Aussie accounting firms

    accounting firms are gradually accepting the efficiencies that the cloud presents, and the results have been phenomenal. The last five years has seen a radical rethink and shift in the way professional services companies have implemented digital...

  3. A closer look at the proposed changes to DPT

    changes, which are inconsistent with and go well beyond internationally accepted rules which have been negotiated over the last two years through the monumental G 20/OECD BEPS process. This is ironic given the role Australia played in the BEPS process...

  4. ACCC warns accountants about ransomware

    becoming increasingly sophisticated and entrepreneurial in the way they attack. “They've been around a long time but in the last year or so there's certainly been some more of them than there have been in the past,” he said. “One of the things that we...

  5. Government moves to increase ATO’s data access

    that the proposed amendment appears to be part of two ongoing trends. “It’s part of a general theme that we've seeing in the last few years in relation to over a period of time seeing the ATO's powers increase significantly, and it's part of a theme of...

  6. ASIC set to spot check financial reports

    he said. “There have been multiple cases of companies having to restate financial statements at ASIC’s request over the last few months, so this is an area that directors ignore at their peril.”

  7. Spike in alternative work agreements tipped for 2017

    clients look on the permanent side I think they are probably a bit more flexible as to people’s backgrounds, and over the last four or five years employers have realised that this golden wish list of attributes that they require doesn't actually exist...

  8. Degree qualifications not cutting it in accounting

    is much more important than someone that has all the technical capability and can follow a checklist,” he said. “The last couple of people that we're hired are people that haven't had university degrees but are absolutely passionate about small business...

  9. Accounting day-to-day set for further shake-up

    for a long time but because of this automation in the industry we've seen compliance work load reducing 15 per cent over the last few years and so it's not a growth area of work for accountants because of the automation that's actually reducing their...

  10. Mid-tier makes strategic merger on Gold Coast

    to grow through partnerships with like-minded firms,” Mr Beddoes said. “We have completed three acquisitions in the last 12 months, each of which added something to our offering for clients.” Bentleys CEO Mark Chapman said he supports the merger as it...

  11. Commissioner issues update on ATO’s massive system outage

    you won’t be penalised,” he said. The ATO is now set to launch an independent review into the events of this week and last. This will look to find the root cause of the issues, and also assess the adequacy of the ATO’s response and restoration process....

  12. Mid-tier ups focus on acquisitions

    to continuing with that.” Bentleys CEO Mark Chapman detailed the extent of various Bentleys firms' acquisitions over the last three years. “We've merged with one firm in Tasmania, one in Newcastle, one in Melbourne and one in Adelaide,” he said. “We...

  13. Government called on to overhaul FBT regime

    anomalies in the FBT, including salary packaging bus travel, which was outlined in ATO class ruling CR 2016/58 in August last year. The ruling allows an employer to provide a bus travel smart card as part of a salary sacrifice arrangement for bus travel...

  14. Relief in sight after ATO’s massive tech failure

    systems, such as the Tax Agent Portal and the BAS Agent Portal, is looking more promising for accounting professionals. Late last year, the ATO experienced significant issues with its online systems, resulting in major outages across its key portals for...

  15. Accounting body calls for shake-up of regulator

    before committing to its proposed industry funding model for ASIC, and suggests consideration of a co-regulation model. Last year the government announced it would introduce an industry funding model for ASIC, to commence in the second half of 2017. The...

  16. Accountants face ‘huge issues’ with buyers in 2017

    then pay dollar for dollar... so a million- dollar fee base they’d pay a million dollars for,” Mr Bishop said. “Over the last probably ten, 15 years, the valuation of fee base has gone down significantly, but also increasingly the younger generation,...

  17. Mid-tier eyes south-east Asia expansion

    in which we are not represented, including the south island of New Zealand and in Tasmania and the Northern Territory.” Last year the network expanded into Indonesia through Jakarta-based firm Doli, Bambang, Sulistiyanto, Dadang & Ali (DBSDA). It also...

  18. MYOB head calls on accountants to lobby govt

    have been some great policies that the government have put out there to support small businesses. As I look through the last two budget cycles, small businesses have been front and centre, so in that front you would think the government would be doing...

  19. ATO advises accountants on client data swoop

    targeted non-compliers with little chance of escaping detection. Social media was announced as a tax office target late last year, as well as private school records and immigration data.

  20. The changing world of small business financing

    be assessed and approved can take weeks. As a result, many SMEs miss opportunities that require fast access to funds. In the last 12 months, many alternative options to small business lending have become available for Australian SMEs, changing the way...