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  1. Accountants outshine financial peers for ethics

    planners (18 down to 16). Even tax agents have fallen from 27 to a net score of 26 while mortgage agents were unchanged from last year with a net score of 9. However, within the corporate sector chief financial officers bucked the trend and saw their...

  2. Accountants oppose FSI's SMSF stance

    you agree with the FSI's recommendation to ban direct borrowing in SMSFs?” to which 186 (65 per cent) said no. In December last year, the FSI recommended the removal of the exception to the general prohibition on direct borrowing for limited recourse...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Super
  3. Accountants offered $8m stake in Panalitix

    in Perth?', wherever they happen to be.” The offer was first announced to Panalitix clients at a conference in Bali last week, while clients who did not attend will formally be presented the opportunity in a webcast today. From conference attendees...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Regulation
  4. Accountants not seen as strategic partners by SMBs

    15 per cent of all businesses view accountants as strategic partners, Agile reported. This does represent an uptick from last year’s score of 10 per cent, but ultimately, accountants currently have an “under-leveraged position” with their clients, the...

  5. Accountants not lagging on licensing, trainer argues

    to become authorised representatives has been considerably higher. “The numbers of [accountants] were very big for us in the last six months of 2015 and the first three months of this year,” he told AccountantsDaily’s sister publication SMSF Adviser. Mr...

  6. Accountants need to move on licensing now, says ASIC

    know whether that will turn about to be the case, but if it is, well we’ve received about one per cent,” Mr Kell said. “The last figure that I’ve been provided with was 105 applications. We’ve approved 44, some are currently being assessed but quite a...

  7. Accountants must prepare for anti-money laundering reforms now, warn experts

    an effective compliant framework tailored to their practice,” they said. “It will be critical not to leave it until the last minute. If they provide a designated service before enrolling, there’s only 28 days to enrol and comply with a range of...

  8. Accountants must look after themselves against ‘whiplash’ of tax reforms

    optimal service levels and personal wellbeing. Almost from the moment Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivered the federal budget last month, it was dubbed the ‘tax advisory budget’. The fundamental shifts in how the Australian government intends to tax wealth...

  9. Accountants must keep ‘watchful eye’ on financial abuse

    insufficient details so that they do not fully understand the true nature or extent of their tax position or tax debt.” Late last year, Smith told Accountants Daily that accountants needed to do their part in helping protect the finances of their...

  10. Accountants losing ground in SMSF space

    looking to set up an SMSF cited property investment as a reason for establishment, up from 34 per cent at the same time last year. Twenty-one per cent of those planning to set up an SMSF also cited access to borrowing within superannuation as a driver...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Katarina Taurian
    • Category: Super
  11. 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
  12. Accountants in driver’s seat as wealthy clients’ 2017 patterns revealed

    with over $1 million in investable assets outside of their own home, business and non-SMSF super, up by 2 per cent over the last 12 months following two consecutive years of decline. Speaking to Accountants Daily, Investment Trends senior analyst King...

  13. Accountants in despair over NSW business grant administration

    turnover test, reliving concerns over the cash versus accruals debate that surfaced at the height of the JobKeeper program last year. Service NSW states that the “Australian Taxation Office goods and services tax (GST) concept will be applied when...

  14. Accountants highlighted in serious financial crime identikit

    the tax system — they do make sure people understand their obligations and help them to meet those obligations,” said Mr Day last year. “But we do see a very small percentage who have a very active role in facilitating offshore tax evasion, the phoenix...

  15. Accountants high on 'dateability' scale

    “Technology has revolutionised the accounting industry and we have seen a new breed of professionals crop up in the last five to 10 years. We have many accounting partners who are excellent examples of the new-age accounting firm, whose employees...

  16. Accountants have ‘lost the art of organic growth’

    have lost the art of organic growth. They’ve been in an environment where growth has been force-fed on them for probably the last three decades. So their ability to go out and grow business and grow clients hasn’t been something that has been a high...

  17. Accountants hang on despite ratings crash for finance sector

    in a row, banking, finance and insurance was the lowest category in the Index. Its net score has dropped dramatically from last year with a score of -15. It has never before scored this badly — 55 per cent of respondents consider the sector unethical...

  18. Accountants give ATO 100A draft the thumbs down

    7A draft rulings a firm thumb’s down in responses to a CA ANZ call for feedback on the issues. The rulings, released last month, are condemned for being “retrospective” and driven by an internal agenda at the ATO, rather than legal or political...

  19. Accountants foreshadow ATO compliance storm

    recommencement of ATO audit and debt activity as recent signs point towards a renewed approach to compliance-related work. Last year, the ATO made a “conscious choice” to pause its debt, audit and lodgement work at the height of COVID-19, ultimately...

  20. Accountants flagged on rising insolvency figures

    in FY21 were 7.2 per cent below the historical average, with court liquidation appointments plunging 72 per cent. Last financial year, 3,709 fewer companies went into external administration than on average, while in January 2021, companies entering...