Fight against ‘dinosaur’ ATO heats up
One accounting body is looking to back plans for the ATO’s digital outages fight to be taken to the Senate estimates process, saying the “suck it up” attitude for tax ...
TECHNOLOGY • Sun, 13 Aug 2017
PODCAST: How to tackle value pricing and marketing
"Horrified expressions" are increasingly becoming a thing of the past with accountants when it comes to creating a competitive and modern marketing and pricing strategy
BUSINESS • Fri, 11 Aug 2017
Major uni, mid-tier reacts to 'disappearing' roles
Shifting client expectations and market demand have prompted a prominent firm to assign graduates to more “interpersonal” roles, which Australian universities and ...
BUSINESS • Thu, 10 Aug 2017
Auditor booted after ASIC finds breaches
The corporate regulator has disqualified a NSW man from being an approved SMSF auditor, finding independence breaches in its investigations.
SUPER • Thu, 10 Aug 2017
Spike in self-lodgers as ATO portals fury continues
The ATO has released tax time figures indicating a spike in the number of Australians lodging their own tax returns, and its claims that over 90 per cent of calls from ...
TECHNOLOGY • Wed, 09 Aug 2017
SMEs hit as $500m stolen by fraudsters
Australian businesses are losing an average of 74.7 cents per $1,000 transacted to card fraud, a noticeable increase from a year earlier.
BUSINESS • Wed, 09 Aug 2017
Aussie software firm set for 'major' moves in bookkeeping market
One local software provider is eyeing growth in the bookkeeping market, in the face of increasing competition.
Weekend ATO outages hitting bookkeepers
The ATO’s scheduled weekend maintenance is hitting the bookkeeping community particularly hard, with sole practitioners in particular relying on being productive after ...
REGULATION • Wed, 09 Aug 2017
EY set for more tax robotics in FY17-18
EY’s partnership revenue growth for FY16-17 was “100 per cent organic” and driven in part by traditional service line of tax, which it is looking to further digitise this ...
TAX • Wed, 09 Aug 2017
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