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  1. CPA releases membership numbers as rebellion continues

    Daily. “The goal is to develop an active and involved membership to enhance the profession and the members,” he said. At last report, Mr Stevenson’s “fighting fund” - a pool of donated funds from disgruntled CPA members - is at $32,753.

  2. Gaps in ASIC’s accountant crackdown surface

    to ASIC’s crackdown on accountants’ provision of disclosure documents to clients, but there are gaps in ASIC’s announcement last week. Late last week, ASIC said it has found that, in recent fundraisings, some accountants have used trust or company...

  3. ATO clarifies contentious business definition

    tax rate reduction. The ATO’s interpretation of whether a company is carrying on a business or a not came into the limelight last week with confusion over whether the corporate tax rate cuts will apply to passive investment companies. The Minister for...

  4. Government acts on super, tax ‘loophole’

    with payments made before preservation age treated as income and taxed accordingly. The government found that, before last year’s budget, some superannuants were using a “loophole” to reduce their tax obligations on their superannuation income streams...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Reporter
    • Category: Tax
  5. Fee-for-service financial advice model criticised

    operating on a fee-for-service only model, saying there is a major difference between advice and accounting businesses. Last week, the Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Board (APESB) closed submissions to its consultation paper on the post...

  6. ASIC on the home stretch with accountants’ licences

    After a significant bottleneck last year, the corporate regulator has distributed a number of draft limited licences to accounting firms and is currently working through outstanding requirements with the remaining applicants. An ASIC spokesperson...

  7. How to modernise your finance technology stack

    this in an integrated way, tying strategy back to the financial plan to ensure alignment and collaboration between teams. Lastly, renovate the core To abstract the organisation from any disruption from an ERP upgrade, a cloud-based solution is the last...

  8. The future of alternative lending

    We know that the funding space has undergone extensive change during the last decade, so what’s in store for the future? The introduction of fintech lenders has given SMEs more choice, and also spurred traditional lenders to update their offerings...

  9. Accounting software giant escalates ATO outage fight

    downtime. This followed the worst stretch of unplanned digital outages at the ATO in recent history, starting in December last year and stretching into early 2017.

  10. The bigger picture of the fintech boom

    as no surprise that investment in the fintech space has increased at a compound annual growth rate of 41 per cent over the last four years. Most of this investment is coming from the banks by way of joint ventures, M&A and venture capital. For a typical...

  11. New licensing training launched for accountants

    during the three-year transition period of July 2013 to July 2016. A further 66 per cent of applications were made in the last four months of the transition period, and 38 per cent of applications were lodged in June 2016. “Practices that are licensed...

  12. ASIC homes in on accountants' SOAs

    AFSL. This was particularly the case in the lead up towards the end of the accountants' exemption phase-out period in July last year, when it became clear that the AFSL regime was having a limited take-up. “Frankly, if you decide after 1 July to give...

  13. How my personal growth story can help your business

    bookkeeping company: Legally BAS. When I started Legally BAS I was very clear that I never wanted to hire anyone… well, that lasted less than a year because I just had so much work, and so for many a year after that I went on a merry-go-round of...

  14. TPB reports ‘healthy growth’ in BAS agents

    of age In addition, 60 per cent of individual BAS agents are members of a recognised professional association. As reported last week, Mr Taylor is bullish on the future of the BAS agent population in Australia, particularly given its compliance track...

  15. BAS agents shine as TPB fields complaints data

    throughout that process, have towed the line and done everything that has been asked of them,” he said. Compliance targets Last year the TPB launched a major compliance project targeting unregistered service providers, which recently saw almost 3,000...

  16. CPA's rivals note major spike in new member enquiries

    members,” Mr Boxer said. “We have definitely experienced an increase in NTAA membership enquiries from CPA members over the last four weeks. Enquiry numbers represent a three-fold increase when compared to previous years.” Accountants Daily contacted...

  17. ‘Voracious’ tax, advisory demand drives spate of mid-tier hires

    said. “Cyber security is a new service, and it sits in a risk advisory services group, and we’ve been working on it for the last 18 months to two years,” he said. “That will be a focus area of our strategy going forward,” he said. Appointments related...

  18. Positive findings in review of SMEs' FY17/18 outlook

    to invest savings from the reduced company tax rate back into their business according to research from a software provider. Last week MYOB released its latest SME Snapshot which revealed that 63 per cent of small business owners are positive about the...

  19. Walker Wayland confirms senior management appointment

    chartered accountants to ensure they have appropriate quality standards in place within their own practices. At the end of last year the Walker Wayland Australasia network elected Power Tynan CEO Paul Hilton as its new chair.

  20. Debt Vs Invoice Funding: An In-depth Look

    even though they had never missed a payment. Not surprisingly, business owners view this possibility with horror: the last thing they want is to expose their hard-built enterprises to the vagaries of the financial world far beyond their control. And...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: The Invoice Market
    • Category: Business