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  1. Payment redirection scams cost SMEs $7m, warns ASIC

    of payment redirection scams after the ACCC revealed micro and small businesses had been affected by them the most in the last year. In 2021 ACCC’s Scamwatch received 3,624 reports from businesses regarding payment redirection scams with $13.4 million...

  2. ASIC reveals $115m rise in civil penalties 

    as well. Corporate governance enforced outcomes are one of the few outcomes that have increased this year when compared to last. This year ASIC has already had outcomes of 36 corporate government issues with auditor misconduct being the most frequent...

  3. Federal Court stops fake tax agent

    from acting unlawfully and putting consumers at risk,” he said. “We expect to build upon the success of cases we litigated last year, which included 219 cases of complaints about unregistered preparers who are failing to provide legal and ethical advice...

  4. EY acquires NZ technology consulting firm

    team to our existing New Zealand financial practice, along with a number of other significant hires and promotions over the last six months, means we are rapidly expanding our presence in the market and continue to bring our financial services clients...

  5. RBA announces August rate rise

    RBA's rise is focused on the supply side inflation rather than demand side. "The economic update provided by the Treasurer last week pointed to inflation peaking toward the end of the year, at near 8 per cent, before starting to fall in 2023," said Ms...

  6. Class appoints four extra general managers

    great talent to our business.” The four appointments are Gary Cox, Tracy Williams, Tom Sargent and Jo Hurley, with the last the sole non-internal promotion. Previously head of business services, Mr Cox is now a general manager of Class putting him in...

  7. Turn your firm into a hybrid vehicle

    (a whole different topic and set of skills) and financially through self-managed super, estate planning and trusts. Last, teach them how to get their finances in order. Boring but vital things like normalising the profit of the business, removing any...

  8. Little point changing lodgement date, says CPA

    against lodgement before it has the chance to gather essential pre-fill information. It gave the go-ahead to file last week although on Wednesday (3 August) it was still waiting for data from a long list of banks and major companies. They included:...

  9. IPA calls for ASIC’s powers to be stripped

    submission to the Quality of Advice Review took its lead from an interim report from the Australian Law Reform Commission last November “and honed in on ASIC”, Ms Stylianou said. “What they were saying [in that report] was the fact that ASIC can make...

  10. Buy now, pay later needs greater regulation, says CPA

    across a variety of buy now pay later platforms, and users made an average of 16.6 transactions at an average value of $151 last year,” said Dr Schmitz. “And in the financial year of 2021 in Australia, buy now pay later services contributed a whopping...

  11. KPMG grows revenue 16% to hit $2.3bn

    consulting businesses. KPMG has rebounded from the pandemic with revenue up 16 per cent – compared with 9 per cent growth last year – and overall profitability up 8 per cent. KPMG chief executive Andrew Yates said that the firm had achieved record...

  12. 120 DPNs a day drive insolvencies back to pre-pandemic level

    reality that they’ve been trading a zombie company for some period”. “The ATO is doing very aggressive signaling. In the last week, we’ve seen the first few ATO wind-ups hitting the courts – it’s only a few, less than 10,” Mr Winter said “So the ATO has...

  13. Submissions open for Women in Finance Awards 2022

    from the individual category winners will be crowned as the recipient of the prestigious Women in Finance Excellence Award. Last year, FAB Tax Accountants’ Miriam Holme walked away with the Excellence Award after winning the Accounting Consultant of the...

  14. Small businesses ‘forgotten’ in domestic violence leave scheme

    Ms Boyd. Data from the ABS shows a steady upwards trend in the proportion of female business owners and managers over the last 20 years, with women now accounting for more than 35 per cent. “This is a crucial consideration for government — how do we...

  15. It’s time for business funding transparency

    Accountants are time-poor and largely overworked. Researching and identifying different funding options is probably the last thing they want to be doing. While some clients will use a mortgage broker, they may not have an experienced professional to...

  16. TPB aims to reduce red tape, increase automation

    professional associations, building on initiatives such as the Tax Practitioner Governance and Standards Forum established last year. More rapid adoption of technology was a key feature of the TPB’s strategy, Mr Klug said, with the goal of reducing the...

  17. FWO acts against Melbourne Uni over treatment of casuals

    had arisen previously with the vice-chancellor addressing it. "Separate to the legal matter at hand, the vice-chancellor last year apologised to past and current casual employees who had been paid less than they were due for work that they performed,"...

  18. Sky-high demand for staff ‘the number one problem’

    opportunity to identify real solutions”, CPA Australia said. ABS data showing the unemployment rate fell to 3.4 per cent last month simply reinforced the fact that “thousands” of accountants were needed to make up the shortfall, CPA Australia general...

  19. CA ANZ specifies terms of conduct review

    an important next to ensure its conduct rules were “robust” and encouraged submissions by members. The review was announced last month in the wake of the KPMG exam cheating scandal, which emerged two years ago and involved hundreds of employees who were...

  20. Hardware firm gives e-invoicing huge thumbs up

    falls on to businesses like us to then try to pass on the good word I guess because it is the right thing for the customer.” Last week, the ATO put on e-invoicing events every day in an attempt to promote its advantages online, via podcasts and social...