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  1. Confidence is returning but don't expect a big salary raise

    we are already seeing instances of salary pressure for skills in demand. Salaries were also stable in professional practice last year, with a number of firms giving the minimal annual increase. Candidate movement was seen in the big four and second tier...

  2. Hays warns of shift to short-term contracts

    “From a business’ perspective, it’s quite a wise thing because of the fluctuations and changes that have happened over the last while and they don’t want to be making redundancies all the time.” Ms Roeder said an increase in major projects undertaken by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Business
  3. CPA issues warning on limited licensing

    the option when you get towards the end of the transition period to know which way you want to go.” “If you leave it to the last 12 months to start your training it’s just going to be too late." Ms Weller’s comments come after ASIC warned of four...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Regulation
  4. Goyder chairs B20 summit in Sydney

    across all sectors. More than 300 senior business leaders from over 30 countries have been meeting since the end of last year to develop a set of policy responses to these global challenges. “Task forces established around four priority areas –...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business
  5. Deloitte confident on economic growth

    and while the iron ore price is down, the Australian dollar is up,” Deloitte added. The firm also said that in the last decade, federal spending has increased by 3 per cent per year more than inflation. “Unless policy changed, the next decade was headed...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business
  6. Prosperity poaches new director

    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
  7. CPA slams idea of apolitical tax commission

    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
  8. Deloitte announces another big name recruit

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

    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...

  10. Q&A: Economist Shane Oliver discusses business confidence

    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
  11. Prepare for changes in SMSF space, says IPA

    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
  12. RBA rate announcement - 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
  13. Bentleys opens new office

    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
  14. Dealer group launches 'simple' licensing solution

    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
  15. Opportunities in the corporate bond market

    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...

  16. KPMG announces 2013/2014 results

    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
  17. PwC appoints two leading lawyers

    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...

  18. Chan & Naylor warns FoFA will be lose-lose

    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
  19. Have you Googled yourself recently?

    said they update their CV frequently but only 28 per cent also update their professional social media profiles. When was the last time you updated both? As well as keeping up your personal development hours, accountants looking for a job need a dual...

  20. Accountants looking to switch SMSF software

    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