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  1. Mackay Goodwin appoints bankruptcy division head

    in NSW and 2,494 personal insolvencies in Australia, a 12.6 per cent national increase compared to the same period last year. ASIC reported a 9 per cent decrease in company insolvencies in June compared with May and Mr King expected an “uptick” on those...

  2. Kilimanjaro wins temporary reprieve on MYOB Exo margins

    from pursuing a reduced margin on its software until the outcome of a court case between the two. The Federal Court ruling last week restrains MYOB from acting for breach of contract or withholding software licences if Kilimanjaro pays MYOB 65 per cent...

  3. Cross-border partnership creates Canadian CPA pathway

    renewed twice since, the arrangement facilitates CPA accreditation for members between Australia, New Zealand and the US. Last year, CIMA and AICPA also created an Australasian committee to increase the association’s local presence. Speaking to...

  4. MYOB adds novated car leasing to Flare Benefits app 

    exempting EVs from fringe benefits tax. The Flare Benefits app, launched in May following MYOB’s purchase of fintech Flare last year, already enables SMEs to deliver staff benefits such as supermarket discounts. MYOB said the app could be tailored to...

  5. Successful accounting firms embracing technology

    aims to shed light on technology adoption, current challenges, and strategic priorities for the upcoming year. Comparing Last Year's Goals with Current Priorities: As technology continues to reshape the accounting industry, embracing its potential...

  6. AI ‘perfect for the heavy lifting on routine tasks’

    it as a query, and then runs the query on the practice management database to see what the actual status is and what the last note was, creates the response for you. “If 30 per cent of email is related to these types of queries, how much of the firm’s...

  7. NSW, Victoria prescribe GP payroll tax without amnesty sweetener

    rulings from the NSW and Victorian state revenue authorities, both released on Friday, recognise a landmark court decision last year that changed the game for GPs working at medical centres. With Western Australia going its own way, the other four...

  8. Why accountants must speak up or be punished for sins of the few

    and is also very far from the truth. I am a chartered accountant and a tax agent. I have spent most of my time over the last 15 years advising and training tax agents and accountants. Over this time I have dealt with hundreds of tax agents. My almost...

  9. Structural changes to erode Australia’s tax base: IGR

    tax base with indirect taxes expected to fall, the 2023 Intergenerational Report (IGR) reveals. The report, handed down last week, outlines that indirect sources of revenue are expected to decline as the decarbonisation of the transport industry and...

  10. With an outsourced CFO function, one size fits all

    and I think we’re seeing that for all finance functions,” he said. “It’s been challenging time to access people over the last two or three years so I see a lot of clients who are reaching out to say, we need support, we can’t attract the right type of...

  11. Record 1.5m at-risk mortgage-holders await RBA move

    said 642,000 mortgage-holders had joined the at-risk group since the RBA began its run of 12 interest rate rises since May last year and its next two decisions were critical. “If the RBA does raise interest rates again next week by 0.25 per cent Roy...

  12. Text messages become the scammer’s weapon of choice

    Report, in a “golden era” for digital fraudsters. It found more than $70 million was lost to investment scams during the last quarter of 2022–23, dwarfing amounts lost to fake government services, false billing and romantic cons. Text messaging...

  13. Planday targets rapid expansion of award coverage

    tools to cover a whole range of sectors from automotive to hair and beauty, its regional chief told Accountants Daily at last week’s Xerocon event. Planday used the Xero conference to announce it was broadening its product to cover businesses paying...

  14. Perth man jailed, ordered to repay $110k in fraudulent GST refunds

    and has been ordered to repay the money. Perth District Court found Justin McCormick had reregistered an ABN in February last year he had previously used from 2009–15 and began lodging bogus BAS and claiming GST on purchases that were never made. He got...

  15. Why authentic leadership comes loaded with challenges

    exhorted to bring our whole selves to work, which many of us interpret as, “This is who I am, take me or leave me”. Over the last two decades, views on leadership have shifted and there is recognition that there is no one single “hero” version of...

  16. Police seize cigarettes, tobacco worth millions in lost tax

    150 staff from six agencies including the ATO, raided 15 locations in the Logan, Redlands and Ipswich areas of Queensland last week and needed five trucks to haul away 60,000 vapes, 3.74 tonnes of tobacco and more than 8 million cigarettes. Police from...

  17. Technology is transforming insolvency practice at a critical time

    passing through input price increases and high fuel and energy costs, unprofitable builders are entering administration. Last financial year, there were more than 2,800 insolvencies across the construction sector, an increase of over 70% over the year...

  18. Job ads jump in August driven by NSW, Qld demand

    above its level of 100 in 2019. “Australian job ads are showing surprising resilience, rising 2.6 per cent over the last two months,” ANZ economist Madeline Dunk said. “We expect the buoyancy in ANZ-Indeed Australian job ads to fade as the economy...

  19. BlueRock adds Arthur Advisory to accounting team

    acquisition to its accounting division in Brunswick-based Arthur Advisory, hot on the heels of its takeover of the dnm group last month. Arthur Advisory director Ricky Jessop, pictured right, returns to BlueRock after running his own advisory business...

  20. AI to shake-up one-quarter of economy: Deloitte

    manufacturing, mining and arts and recreation while some sectors, especially agriculture and construction, would be affected last and least. The report, Generation AI: Ready or Not, Here We Come! combined economic research with a survey of 2,550...