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  1. ASIC failed to question KPMG tax bill despite Shipton’s concerns

    ASIC, asking, “the question (for KPMG) that I am still keen to know about is why the fee estimate increased 6x (from late last year to September this year) when the information passed on to them was exactly the same on both occasions?” An ASIC staff...

  2. ASIC eyes KPMG in complex liquidation

    investigation into various land developments in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ASIC already obtained orders last year restraining Ms Macpherson and the companies, with the exception of 511 GTN, from providing financial advice, financial...

  3. ASIC extends COVID-19 record of advice relief

    said in a statement. The record of advice relief measure was rolled out as part of a three-pronged relief package in April last year. The suite of measures enabled registered tax agents to give advice to existing clients about early access to...

  4. ASIC exposes dozens of dodgy investment websites on blacklist

    to address online fraud and supported the work of the new National Anti-Scams Centre (NASC), which opened in July. Last week ASIC revealed that since July its scam-buster technology had disabled 2,100 fake investment websites mainly offering high-risk...

  5. ASIC deregisters 374 SMSF auditors

    UPDATED: The regulator cancels hundreds for failing to lodge annual statements after warnings last year. ASIC has deregistered 374 SMSF auditors after they failed to lodge annual statements with cancellation notices sent out last week. The move came...

  6. ASIC defends handling of Shipton’s tax expense probe

    late to the Australian National Audit Office, on 16 October 2020. Auditor-General Grant Hehir told the committee in November last year that he had been forced to escalate the expenses matter to Treasury after ASIC’s processes in response to the expenses...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Sarah Kendell
    • Category: Tax
  7. ASIC crackdown claims 8 more SMSF auditors

    their audit files and tools, and notifying their professional association of the conditions. The actions by ASIC, over the last quarter of FY2022-23, add to the 413 cancellations of SMSF auditors as part of a crackdown on compliance in the sector. “In...

  8. ASIC cops it as royal commission report released

    line. Some reassurance for accountants came from the architect of the Future of Financial Advice reforms, Bernie Ripoll, last month. Accountants Daily asked him if he fears smaller operators will bear the brunt of ASIC’s compliance action, given they...

  9. ASIC commits to naming and shaming largest audit firms

    across the six largest firms. It will also shorten the time frame for its next inspection period, with results for the last 12 months set to be released by the end of the year, down from the usual 18-month period. “ASIC acknowledges that while audit...

  10. ASIC chair to step down despite being cleared of wrongdoing

    interests of ASIC”, a new chair should be appointed. Mr Shipton will resume in his role on Monday, after stepping aside late last year, and will leave once his successor has been named. The Treasury has kicked off its search process, with an appointment...

  11. ASIC bans director behind $50m Magnolia Group collapse

    Atkins of Erina, NSW, was a director of the Magnolia Capital Group of companies which operated from 2018 until it collapsed last year. Businesses in the group provided financial advice and services in relation to secured lending transactions and share...

  12. ASIC bans accountant over $73m failure

    in three failed companies that collectively owe creditors over $73 million. The ban from ASIC comes after Mr Brandi had last week pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining $135,248 in GST refunds by falsifying business activity statements lodged on...

  13. ASIC bans 2 directors over string of failed companies owing $9m

    more companies within the group have entered liquidation since it decided to disqualify Mr Kelly and Mr Farrelly in October last year. These included KFT Group, Stormer Building Group No 2, Stormer Building Group, 3 Property Group 4 and Lifestyle Homes...

  14. ASIC asks for small business sector's feedback

    regulator's services and engagement with the small business sector. This is ASIC’s second small business survey, with the last survey (conducted in late 2012) resulting in the establishment of ASIC's Small Business Engagement team. This team is focused...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Business
  15. ASIC already shadow shopping as deadline looms

    body noting that compliance activity is set to ramp up in 2016. Speaking at the IPA’s National Congress on the Gold Coast last week, executive general manager Vicki Stylianou warned that ASIC is treating the accountants' exemption phase-out as a “hard...

  16. ASIC acts against 15 auditors over in-house audit concerns

    These latest actions taken by ASIC follow the compliance action it undertook against nine auditors in the December quarter last year for conduct that did not meet the required standards. This included concerns about compliance with auditing and...

  17. ASIC may ‘come knocking’ despite exemption, accountants told

    shadow shopping and compliance activity. Speaking at a Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) conference last week in Sydney, The Fold Legal solicitor director Jaime Lumsden Kelly said ASIC would “come knocking” if the regulator became...

  18. Ascendant mid-tiers boost partner ranks as big 4 scale back

    as middle market adviser of choice”. RSM set a goal of having 1,750 staff in 2024. A raft of appointments at the end of last year took total numbers to over 1,800 by November. O’Rourke also commended 18 of the 22 appointments being internal promotions –...

  19. ASBFEO’s small business indicator reveals decline in conditions

    launched by the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) has shown that conditions over the last 12 months for small businesses have deteriorated by 3.5 per cent. ASBFEO Bruce Billson said the ‘Small Business Pulse’ is an...

  20. Artificial intelligence ‘nothing to fear’

    “AI is everywhere and we use it every day,” Andrew Conway told the IPA Nation Congress at Surfers Paradise, Queensland, last week. “Stop losing sleep that your practice value is dropping because of AI. Or that the business that you're in or your role is...