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- How to navigate the ATO’s lodgment and payment options
- Home or away, residency test needs reform
- Trust vesting case casts shadow over ATO ruling
- The tax leftovers Labor must digest
- Make investments for art’s sake
- Help! My client has received an ATO letter about crypto trading
- Profit motive puts crypto trades on revenue account
- Take a strategic approach to dealing with DPNs
- What to tell your foreign worker about tax
- Why your firm is now a risky business
- Find the right tax strategy for life insurance
- Are my crypto trades on a wash cycle?
- How Div 7A changes the game for companies and trusts
- What becomes of COVID cash when a company winds up?
- Frustrating reality of ATO overlooked in audit report
- Why risk millions by getting payroll wrong?
- Family farms: NSW decides when duty calls
- How to avoid personal liability when dealing with DPNs
- One last chance to tell the ATO how you feel about s100A
- What BBlood Enterprises case means for s100A
- BBlood decision casts doubt on 100A draft ruling
- With 100A, the ATO has zoned us out
- Timely review of Taxpayers’ Charter a chance to modernise
- How to avoid the traps in TPD claims through super
- Why clients need a warning over ‘fringe’ tax advice
- What does the Minerva case mean for trust distributions?
- Excessive ATO assessment? Know your rights to object
- Why time’s up for the mischief in off-market share buybacks
- When it comes to valuations, make sure the price is right
- Five low-cost tips for better cyber protection
- Why accountants must be alert to 100A agreement traps
- How crypto assets can trigger CGT tripwires
- Why accountants must heed creditor duty decision
- How to avoid the costly pitfall of payroll errors
- How 100A multiplies the compliance burden
- From 100A to exam cheats and director IDs … Oh, what a year!
- How to find the tax compliance model that fits
- Three ways to solve all your s100A problems
- Asset protection and SMSFs — a Tax Office warning
- How Guardian case shines a light on reimbursement agreements
- Why concerns linger over s100A final ruling
- Where the Guardian appeal was won and lost
- ATO ruling will double the cost of trust distribution work
- ATO issues warning to taxpayers over overseas money transfers
- ATO to launch publicity campaign for final work-from-home guidance
- Government moves the goalposts on super again
- Extra scrutiny of GST claims will fail to unmask fraudsters, experts say
- ATO interest charges hit highest level in a decade
- Triple-pronged approach to Div 7A puts ‘crazy’ demand on accountants
- ‘Significant tightening’: Details revealed on thin capitalisation changes
- Payroll tax appeal ‘delivers way out’ for medical centres
- Super fund satisfaction declines, but TBC rule ‘a watershed’
- Promissory notes a ‘last resort’ for gift and loan back arrangements
- Beware using asset protection as ‘get out of jail card’
- Court case clarifies application of SG to contractors
- Whistleblower who lifted lid on aggressive ATO tactics to face trial
- Tougher laws introduced to tackle superannuation theft
- Accountants must highlight dangers of raiding super: ATO
- Federal budget tipped to ‘target smaller, wealthier cohorts’
- Critics damn ‘uncertainty’ in franking credit changes
- ATO boosts data-matching arsenal to close $1.3bn rental property gap
- ‘Rushed’ multinational tax changes to hit foreign investment
- Inefficient, complex FBT regime ripe for overhaul
- Share economy regime to expose GST, CGT compliance issues
- Angry chorus of disapproval greets $3m super tax
- ATO confirms update to foreign ownership register
- ATO to take 4 additional DGR registers
- How to avoid CGT on deceased estate property
- ATO to amend s100A ruling in wake of Guardian appeal
- ATO upgrades to ‘simpler, better’ lodgment deferral system
- Off-market buybacks ‘super-size tax benefits – for some’
- Flick to electricity for 20% tax deduction, small business told
- One-third of business owners predict personal hit from budget
- Government unveils PRRT reforms ahead of tonight’s budget
- How to plot a path through the s100A minefield
- Strategic tax reform ‘missing in action’
- Sun about to set on range of popular tax measures, ATO warns
- PRRT reforms ‘strike a fine balance’, says RSM
- How to adopt a risk-free approach to s100A
- ATO rental property focus to keep accountants on their toes
- ATO crackdown focuses on rental properties, work claims, CGT
- ATO targets side hustles in crackdown on undeclared income
- How the ATO will turn celebrity into a challenge
- Victorian land tax changes ‘to hit small business, renters’
- Higher payroll taxes tipped to ‘impact jobs and wages’
- ‘Burdensome’ multinational reporting changes raise major concerns
- How to take CGT sting from assets bequeathed to a foreign resident
- CA ANZ pushes for advice regulation changes ahead of $3m threshold
- Government to revise franking credit changes after Senate Inquiry
- Taxpayers must ensure they are ‘tax literate’: CPA
- ATO tells small businesses to come clean
- BDO flags EOFY checklist items for businesses
- Master EOFY Complexity with ChangeGPS
- Accountants urged ‘not to jump the gun’ on $3m threshold
- Appointor succession and $46m UPEs
- ATO widens its data-matching capacity
- Technical expert flags EOFY planning tips for super
- How to prepare your clients for the end of the financial year
- Cryptocurrency space in desperate need of further tax guidance
- SME tax incentives pass both houses
- Tax season is coming: What’s your people plan?
- Micro businesses ‘overwhelmed’ with tax debts, lodgements
- Avoid copying last year’s return, warns ATO
- Federal Court dismisses appeal over R&D claim
- July start date for multinational tax changes expected to stay
- Government told to scrap NALE provisions
- VCAT decision raises stamp duty risks for capital raising
- Industry groups push for extension to small business energy incentive
- ATO reveals characteristics and behaviours it will focus on
- Government establishes e-invoicing hub to encourage take-up
- Tax offset ‘to boost computer game industry’
- ‘Aggressive’ ATO puts directors in front line for tax debts
- CPA flags ‘major deficiencies’ in thin capitalisation changes
- Tax residency changes ‘fail to consider post-covid scenarios’
- ATO signals tougher approach on tax debt recovery
- Debt creation provisions ‘detrimental’ to genuine transactions, warns AFMA
- Thin cap changes to ‘discriminate against mid-market taxpayers’
- Average ATO refund tumbles $430 compared to last July
- ATO urged to postpone tax determination on NALI and CGT
- Why company boards must keep an eagle eye on tax governance
- CA ANZ pushes for deferral of multinational tax changes
- Certainty over tax residency rules ‘will come at a cost’
- Bikie gang members charged over alleged GST fraud
- Penalty amnesty tempts 7,000 small businesses back into tax system
- Multinational tax changes enter the Senate
- NSW, Victoria prescribe GP payroll tax without amnesty sweetener
- Medical centres confront $600k payroll tax bills or closure
- Plutus Payroll scammers plead case ahead of sentencing
- Taxpayers get refunds despite having debts-on-hold
- SMSFs, unit trusts and NALI – some lessons for all
- Government releases draft PRRT legislation
- NSW pauses payroll tax audits to consult with GPs
- Structural changes to erode Australia’s tax base: IGR
- Holistic tax reform ‘a solution to Australia’s crumbling tax base’
- BDO flags key areas for ‘bite-sized tax reform’
- Unorthodox tax measures spark fears about ‘new era of tax’
- Police seize cigarettes, tobacco worth millions in lost tax
- Fraudster who claimed $830k in GST refunds gets 7.5 years’ jail
- Small business CGT concessions a ‘one way ticket to an ATO review’
- CA ANZ urges government to delay GST input tax credit changes
- ATO escalates warnings over dodgy rental claims
- Too many businesses roll the dice on tax debt: Jordan
- Case law drives significant tax outcomes for Tax Office
- ATO takes gloves off to chase down $4bn in long-term debt
- Side hustles run from home can trigger CGT, tax lawyer warns
- Tax debts ‘at double pre-pandemic levels, $1m common’
- Accounting software subs eligible for 20% bonus deduction
- Division 7A loans a looming crisis, accountants warned
- Small business tax measures, NALI changes enter Parliament
- ATO interest charges soar to highest level since GFC
- Qld retreats from payroll tax on medical centre GPs
- Risk matrix in PCG 2021/4 a ‘blunt tool’ for assessing risk
- Changes to carbon credit tax rules ‘add complexity and cost for farmers’
- Revised NALE rules ‘miss chance to clarify SMSF bugbear’
- NSW budget to close ‘loopholes’ on duties, taxes
- GP Clinics left in ‘uncertain position’ on payroll tax, says KPMG
- Victorian ‘Airbnb tax’ misjudges landlords, experts say
- Land valuation changes to impact Queensland property owners
- Government to overhaul thin capitalisation changes after inquiry
- Court takes aim at ‘arbitrary’ GST rules in recent decision
- Accountants sweat on ‘non-stop’ wave of ATO super audits
- ATO raises $40m from crackdown on sales suppression tools
- ‘Expand FBT break to EV chargers, solar panels, batteries’
- SMSFA urges government to remove active member test
- Tech, skills boosts contain sting in tail for shareholders
- Proposed factor test for tax residency ‘won’t resolve complexities’
- Government unveils further details on $3 million cap in draft legislation
- ATO activity on SG ramps up as data-matching program expands
- $3m super tax legislation to cause ‘unintended outcomes’, SMSF industry warns
- AAT decision overturns ATO ruling on trusts and Div 7A
- Shifting property market creates GST traps for developers
- High-risk transactions by multinationals in decline, says ATO
- Government consults on details of payday super measure
- ATO will dob in 9k businesses to credit agencies this month
- Victoria land tax ‘onslaught’ could spark investor exodus
- $3m super tax will thump thousands of SMSF members with $80k bill
- PwC reforms ‘could threaten objective tax advice’, warns Tax Institute
- Payroll tax ruling ‘financially devastating’ for dental practices, warns ADA
- High Court rules against Victoria’s electric vehicle road charge
- Government releases revised amendments to thin capitalisation rules
- You can offer digitally-enabled financial guidance without an AFSL
- Prepare for surge in GST audits, ATO warns tax agents
- Tax revenue up $6.4bn from large corporates, ATO reports
- Industry super fund calls for indexation for $3m super tax
- Mid-year WFH changes ‘will catch out many taxpayers’
- AI could ‘resolve GST classification burden’, says ATO assistant commissioner
- Concerning global tax evasion patterns emerging, report reveals
- Eliminate tax gender bias and liberate $128bn, taskforce urges
- ATO flags small business tax debt, SG as key focus areas for FY23–24
- ATO ramps up compliance action on ‘growing GST debt’
- CA ANZ proposes simpler solutions to $3m super tax
- ATO taking stricter line on payment plans, businesses warned
- Small business facing ‘legislative uncertainty’ with tax incentives now stalled
- ‘Integrity issues’ prompt ATO to clarify rules for R&D incentive
- Self-employed 'missing out on $3.5 billion in tax deductions'
- Tax agents hit with ‘petty’ ATO list of old debts as small as 4c
- Festive work parties must dance through an FBT ‘minefield’
- Revised thin capitalisation rules fail to deliver ‘substantive change’
- Expanded Victoria land tax ‘to hit SMSFs with property’
- ATO responds to AAT decision on taxi compensation payment
- Joint bodies reject government’s ‘two-tiered’ approach to NALE reforms
- ATO flags poor governance documentation as top issue in Next 5,000 review
- ATO warns employers on emerging ‘FBT myths’
- CA ANZ slams limited consultation period for revised thin capitalisation measures
- Accountants warned not to jump the gun with AAT’s Div7A decision
- Large corporates pay record $83.8 billion in income tax for FY21–22
- ATO, banks revive legacy debts and return to court action
- Lack of progress with Pillar Two reforms ‘disappointing’, says RSM
- Average refund plummets by $580, total payout down $5.4bn
- Bill to implement ‘biggest crackdown on tax adviser misconduct’ enters Parliament
- ATO refuses to budge until result of Bendel case appeal
- Grant Thornton flags key trigger points for ATO transfer pricing reviews
- BDO flags ‘festive tax traps’ for businesses as year end approaches
- Why ASIC needs to rise from ashes of failed phoenix case
- Thin cap overhaul goes ‘too far’, warns tax expert
- Entertainment or gift? Remember how it comes wrapped in tax
- ATO slips from top spot in public trust ranking
- ATO slams brakes on debts campaign in face of backlash
- Peak body demands Canberra to reject ‘international student tax’
- When NALI punishment goes way beyond the crime
- Victoria to hand back $7m in unlawful EV taxes
- ATO wins landmark diverted profits case against Pepsi
- AccountantsIQ tackles tax challenges of ageing
- ATO pursues Coca-Cola for $174m diverted profits tax
- Unlock QuickBooks Tax for free with the ProAdvisor Program
- ATO will scrutinise fine print in employee v contractor issues
- ATO waives $48m under lodgement amnesty
- Agribusiness guide update covers latest tax, legal issues
- What Bendel exposes about ATO rulings
- Streamline Tax Season with QuickBooks Tax: 3 Reasons Accountants Love It
- $3m super tax ‘will be devastating to farmers’
- Tax ombudsman launches probe into how ATO handles identity theft
- Two men get 8 years’ jail for $40m gold bullion fraud
- Small business set for ‘unforeseen pain’ with tax collection changes, CA ANZ warns
- ATO warns advisers against suspect R&D tax claims
- ATO issues lodgment tips for Next 5000 groups
- Commissioner’s remedial power ‘underused, invisible’
- ATO research will help trustees understand their obligations: CEO
- Why 2023 was a year of living taxingly
- CFS flags planning opportunities ahead of stage 3 tax cuts
- Tax issues with mixed purpose loans tipped to rise this year: Hayes Knight
- Crucial deadline looms for foreign owners of Victorian property
- CGW flags ‘largest trap’ with Section 99B and trust distributions
- ‘Sub-optimal’ thin cap rules to damage economy, warns CPA
- Australian multinationals warned on top tax issues ahead of EOFY
- Advocacy group pushes for tax changes to improve worker shortages
- How accountants and bookkeepers are automating & streamlining their processes
- Plastic tax could stem ‘waste tsunami’, raise $1.5bn
- AAT upholds ATO decision in GST dispute
- Tribunal rejects real estate agent’s tax deductions in recent decision
- IMF urges Canberra to bite the bullet with tax overhaul
- ATO must take ‘pragmatic’ approach to thin cap changes, says CA ANZ
- NALI delay ‘a kick in the guts’ for industry, says law firm
- Streamline Tax Season with QuickBooks Tax: 3 Reasons Accountants Love It
- Treasurer defends revised stage 3 tax cuts plan
- IFPA calls for repeal of s100A
- ATO to pull plug on legacy website
- QuickBooks Roadshow is back with 15 locations (+ virtual) in March 2024!
- Businesses threaten: No more tax until client linking fix
- Tax Institute calls for ‘high compliance’ taxes to be abolished
- Trust taxation ‘in urgent need of review’, government told
- Stage 3 tax cuts to impact budget in longer-term: Grattan Institute
- Stage 3 tax cuts legislation to enter Parliament today
- Auditor rallies younger members to fight against $3m super tax
- Experts sound alarm over ‘flawed’ ATO royalty ruling
- Stage 3 cuts to pass House, Senate greenlights ‘right to disconnect’
- Stage 3 tax cuts divide accountants
- Intercompany transactions, agreements under ‘heightened scrutiny’, companies warned
- Revised draft legislation released for country-by-country reporting
- Resort developer gets 10-year sentence for $15m tax fraud
- Pressure mounts on government to curb negative gearing, CGT
- Audit office damns ATO safeguards in wake of $2bn GST fraud
- ATO guidance needed on thin cap changes, says CPA
- ATO needs active monitoring by oversight board: IPA
- ATO defends ‘strong’ GST fraud controls against ANAO criticism
- Employer audits to surge, ATO warns
- Court dismisses dispute over capital allowance deductions
- Everett assignments ‘dropping like flies’ as ATO cracks down
- ATO mulls options with on-hold tax debts
- Why transparency won’t fix Australia’s tax system
- ATO’s hands tied with scrapping on-hold debts, expert says
- ‘No reason’ for gas industry’s generous anti-avoidance rules
- Contribution caps set to increase from 1 July
- Not-for-profits scrambling to justify tax-exempt status
- Australia’s tax debate is part of a global ‘war on fair taxation’
- ATO targets multinationals outside of justified trust program
- What to tell clients ahead of stage 3 tax cuts
- ATO issues ‘last warning’ on overdue TPARs
- Further fraudsters jailed over GST fraud scheme
- Pandemic super withdrawals to cost taxpayers $85bn
- Multinationals should be acting on base erosion sooner, not later
- RACGP calls for clarity on payroll tax promise in Tasmania
- ATO issues $23m in assessments after latest ESST raids
- ATO ruling flags common audit traps for self-education claims
- ATO's SMSF crackdown sees 149 trustees disqualified
- ATO welcomes SGSP Australia Assets settlement as win for taskforce
- ATO targeting DPNs at directors with high value assets
- ATO’s adviser strategy zeroes in on late-paying partners
- Full Federal Court rejects ATO's Minerva anti-avoidance ruling
- ATO issues decision impact statement on Bowerman case
- Former ATO employee jailed for accepting bribes
- ATO’s client-agent linking a threat to system integrity: IGTO
- AusNet appeals Federal Court capital allowance deductions case
- Super Clearing House change to impact small businesses, SMSFs
- Government unveils details of Division 296 tax for defined benefit interests
- Tax services are ‘urgently needed’ in remote communities
- DPNs surge to over 18,000 as ATO ramps up action on debt
- ATO admits to fast-tracking client linking over fraud concerns
- Bowerman decision highlights flaws with ATO approach to losses
- Full Federal Court dismisses appeal in recent FBT case
- ATO appeals FOI order relating to transfer pricing audit
- ATO’s SG activities expose ‘clearing house debacle’, says IPA
- Treasury releases draft minimum tax rules for multinationals
- $3m super tax to ‘disrupt’ small business and farmers, warns SMSFA
- Law firm flags risk mitigation strategies for ATO audits
- Tax agents still failing Div 7A basics, ATO warns
- Federal Court rejects yet another ATO anti-avoidance decision
- ATO’s debts on hold campaign prompts new IGTO guidance
- $5.2m in illicit tobacco destroyed following ATO investigation
- ‘Cold-blooded’ ATO needlessly withheld refund from vulnerable taxpayer
- Tax Office ‘dredging up’ decade old director debts
- ATO responds to IGTO guidance on debt notification
- 16,500 SMSFs face regulator scrutiny over valuations
- ATO ‘recalibrates’ combined assurance review program
- GST distribution reform: ‘Worst’ public policy decision this century
- ATO raises concerns over $200m in illegal SMSF loans
- Common FBT mistakes flagged as FBT season kicks off
- Deakin tax tool to help NFPs cope with ATO’s ‘ticking time bomb’
- The ATO reflects on ‘very hard lesson’ in debt collection
- Next 5,000 groups will pay for unsubstantiated related party transactions: ATO
- Genuine tax reform is difficult and it’s partly my fault: Ken Henry
- ATO urges NFPs to start preparing for new reporting
- ATO issues alert on false invoicing arrangements
- Draft legislation to provide tax relief for certain lump sum payments
- ATO issues favourable ruling on KPMG fuel tax credit product
- Paul Tilley: Australian tax system is a ‘renovator’s delight’
- ATO information sharing upheld in RDTI fraud case
- Cost of tax debt ‘to soar in 2025’, CA ANZ warns
- Small business urged to use ATO courses to learn tax, boost compliance
- AFP busts business that allegedly washed $1bn for 1.2k tax evaders
- Australia rejects UN global tax reform, despite talking a ‘big game’
- ATO issues response on NALI decision by AAT
- Self-employed, trust beneficiaries gamifying tax brackets, research finds
- ATO flags trust administration changes ahead of 1 July
- Broking associations hit back at payroll tax decision
- Tax season is coming: What’s your plan?
- ATO warns of ‘serious penalties’ for unlawful tax scheme promoters
- IFRS 18: ‘significant’ changes to financial statements
- ATO explores ‘digitised guidance’ to combat Division 7A issues
- ATO consistently failing to meet transfer pricing targets, audit finds
- Tribunal confirms ATO’s power to make RDTI ruling
- ATO updates client-agent linking system to prevent ‘inadvertent errors’
- ACTU double-leave-half-pay reform will stress payroll accounting
- H&R Block's predictions for 2024 ATO compliance hotspots
- ATO takes ‘stringent’ stance on GIC remissions as part of debt clampdown
- ATO warns Next 5,000 Groups against outgrowing their tax reporting
- Accountants cautioned on ‘unexpected tax consequences’ with Division 7A loans
- ATO ‘underestimated’ impact of Peter Collins licensing decision: Hirschhorn
- Experts clash over classification of PRRT as ‘super-profits tax’
- CGT, negative gearing reform could save $60bn, analysis finds
- AAT upholds ATO decision on self-education expenses
- ATO issues alert to SMSFs on crypto scams and losses
- Top adviser calls for end to tax system tinkering
- Global billionaire tax would add $250bn in tax revenues
- ATO’s systems vulnerable to tax fraud, IGTO report cautions
- Budget tipped to deliver tax breaks for business investment
- Endangered NFPs to gain from Deakin’s reporting tool
- Global initiative claws back US$2.3bn in taxes for developing nations
- ATO expands data-matching program for crypto assets
- Treasurer to beef up ATO’s foreign investment tax reviews
- Mid market wants a tax reform-led economic recovery: survey
- Businesses urge Treasurer to follow through on tax incentives hints
- ATO cautions tax agents on ‘cut and paste’ lodgment deferrals
- Profession
- Migration reforms receive mixed reviews
- Insight: Peter Langham
- Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention shares insights in Momentum Media exclusive
- Insights for sale: How accountants provide greater client value in 2021
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- 8 ways to optimise SMSF accounting
- Expanding CDR ‘will empower consumers’
- Act boldly on financial advice reform recommendations, says report
- The HR problems accountants cannot ignore
- 6 steps to a successful accounting or bookkeeping business
- Are trust disclaimers finished, post Carter?
- Why accounting adds up for women
- Does crypto belong in an SMSF?
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- Regional accountancies should corporatise to attract talent
- Four tips to avoid EOFY burnout
- Can accountants break the 9-to-5 office habit?
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- How a finance broker can boost your advisory offering
- Comfort and trust the keys to selling professional services
- To lure talent, Australia must loosen the visa knots
- Where have all the accountants gone?
- The swings and roundabouts of staff shortages
- Forget astronaut, every child should aspire to be an auditor
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- How to spot a dodgy invoice every time
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- When excessive discretion can imperil a trustee
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- Four essential functions for any ambitious finance team
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- Seven trends that will change the shape of accounting
- Why it’s vital to keep tabs on debtors
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- How to select the right business development coach
- Why a business budget should be top of your new year resolutions
- Why you need an A-Z of super contributions for the new year
- Recession fears drive employees to seek promotions within current employers
- CA ANZ recognised under government's fee-help program
- WIS subsidiaries to pay over $4.8 million in back wages
- Quality of advice review final report released: accountants included in regulatory framework
- Traci Houpapa joins CA ANZ board, brings valuable expertise
- RSM Australia celebrates lunar new year with lion dance performance
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- Today, half of Grant Thornton’s tax department has other plans
- Small practices that sell a vision can beat Goliaths to staff
- Tax professional women carve their own path to business success
- Staff want better WFH set-ups and expect bosses to pay, survey finds
- SMEs ‘must lift game on ESG’ as regulations bite big end of town
- Accounting skills crisis here to stay, recruiter warns
- Plan for leadership succession so that exit means exit
- Millennial managers recoil from hiring, take on extra work instead
- Top tips for winning the talent war
- Data security, health and safety shoot to top of HR concerns
- Stability makes Australia the ‘regional sweet spot’ for M&A deals
- Accountants ‘the linchpins’ in push for ESG standards
- Widespread thumbs-up for RBA rate pause
- How to avoid the many tripwires in trusts
- How to avoid (more of the) many tripwires in trusts
- Limited licence advisers ‘an endangered species’
- AI raises risk of accountants providing ‘legal advice’
- Businesses must bring ESG targets into focus or risk viability
- Data-hungry businesses must be alert to risks
- ATO adds PAYGW prefill to activity statements
- EY Australia staff in job cuts firing line
- Most employers support four-day week, with SMEs leading the way
- HR chief quits, EY partners told to ‘draw up lists’
- Wage theft law ‘will do nothing to help underpaid’
- Tax industry should take heed of disruptors in other sectors
- How to avoid the risk of playing favourites
- Data overload ‘creates havoc’ for decision making
- Money laundering reform to ‘raise stakes’ for accounting firms
- Empower clients with strategic advice, accountants urged
- Evolving risk, limited resourcing creates challenges for internal audits
- How hybrid working has spawned five tribes
- Employee or contractor? It all comes down to the delivery
- Payday super to raise costs for small business, COSBOA warns
- Enshrine right to disconnect from work, recruiter says
- 8 months after suicide, nervous EY staff await review ‘in weeks’
- Female business owners ‘a huge advice opportunity’
- Seymour steps down as PwC chief
- How accountants can help seal building sector against the storm
- $4.4m in back pay: UTS joins list of universities short-changing staff
- Talented women vote with their feet, top firms warned
- Payroll staff burnout worst in large companies
- Ai Group chief doubles down on wage theft criminalisation stance
- Data visibility, education ‘top priorities’ for younger SMSF trustees
- Cut clients and focus on the good stuff, accountants told
- Xero NZ boss challenges big firms to improve payment times
- Accounting pay grows faster than average but trails CPI
- Airwallex partners with Expedia to tackle global travel costs
- TPB terminates agent for wrongfully claiming over $100k in deductions
- Regulatory changes, STP the ‘top payroll challenges’ for new FY
- Lost trust deeds: beware the duty costs
- Accountants have to bite bullet on desperation hires, poor performers
- Working remotely is limiting your career prospects, say firms
- NAB warns accounting firms their data is at risk
- Sustainability reporting requirements to spark new challenges
- Small business increasingly ‘vulnerable to cyber attacks’: COSBOA
- PwC to publish independent report in full
- NSW government secures record fine against specialty retailer
- Are young workers facing a ‘resilience crisis’?
- Accountants flag pay rise at ‘top career priority’ for 2023
- Targeted changes needed for Australia’s complex employment system
- TPB has no plan to suspend PwC despite leaks
- Over a third of accountants are considering leaving in next 5 years
- Businesses are relying on poor managers due to the pandemic
- International accounting and law bodies announce MoU
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- Government urged to rethink reliance on big 4 firms
- CA ANZ releases professional conduct review
- Government to act on migrant worker ‘crisis of exploitation’
- BDO expands presence with experienced appointments
- Ethics board declares PwC tax case a ‘breach of standards’
- Gender super gaps narrows for SMSFs
- ATO tells accountants to caution clients of scammers
- CFOs deal with more than just finances: BDO
- Suncorp forced to back pay staff $32m
- Creative industries face ‘mixed’ outlook for year ahead
- QAR reforms welcomed by advice sector
- Former CFO charged with insider trading
- Relationship-based services key to driving organic growth
- Anti-money laundering changes could ‘displace risk’, joint bodies warn
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- Black Economy Taskforce audit reveals ‘Treasury failures’
- BDO outlines strategies for combatting talent crisis in construction
- Now is the time for a business ‘health check’, says insolvency platform
- Small businesses need big firms to lift their game
- KordaMentha strengthens its financial crime team
- ACSC revamps cyber security guidance for small business
- Small businesses need cash flow help: Xero
- 4 in 5 Australians want PwC banned from new government work
- Senate report delivers ‘striking’ findings into PwC scandal
- COSBOA pushes for global ESG standards to combat greenwashing
- Over a quarter of workers are looking for an employment change
- Remote workers and their employers must be aware of tax restrictions
- Moore Australia strengthens leadership with 21 appointments
- Crypto tax services a ‘major market gap’, says specialist firm
- An ideal time to overhaul your organisation’s billing system
- ISSB sustainability standards to spark ‘far-reaching reforms’
- PwC’s $1 deal an attempt to ‘phoenix’ its government relationship
- Trust administration is a tricky affair, not a tick-and-flick exercise
- TPB bans agent for 5 years over $16m in undeclared income
- KPMG Australia elects next national chairman
- Government scraps ASIC levy freeze
- Australia to struggle to meet ISSB sustainability standards
- Almost 9 in 10 employees want a 4-day work week, survey shows
- 1 in 2 taxpayers aren't maximising charitable savings
- Inflation data cools month-on-month
- ‘Review shutdown provisions now’, businesses told
- The Tax Institute initiates investigation into 4 named PwC partners
- Don’t call us! ATO tells agents, just go online
- PwC names 8 partners forced to quit over tax scandal
- Fintech expands licence-free digital advice platform
- Carbon Group bonds with Kensington Financial
- ISSB standards to require overhaul of systems
- Incoming PwC Australia chief shuffles C-suite
- Majority of small businesses are seeking cost reductions
- KordaMentha promotes 12
- Why the revised ATO charter comes up short on accountability
- Director banned for failed construction companies owing $20m
- Wage theft reforms fail to fix ‘fundamental issue’, says BCA
- Accounting talent shortage eases slightly as new FY begins
- Robodebt report casts doubt on legality of ATO data exchanges
- Small business energy incentive ‘hobbled by short shelf life’: IPA
- ProAdvice joins Moore to bolster Geelong footprint
- SMEs cut ties with foreign suppliers to safeguard supply chains: ScotPac
- Only meaningful disclosure will stop greenwashing, says ASIC
- Government appoints the next Fair Work Ombudsman
- KPMG unveils major upgrades to AI capabilities
- Accountant charged over $26 million tax-related fraud
- RSM Australia appoints Melbourne managing partner
- PJC inquiry calls for ‘comprehensive review’ of insolvency law
- Professionals quit their jobs in tight labour market
- C-suites must refocus on security as cyber threats rise: BDO
- WA Insolvency Solutions promotes long-serving member to partner
- CIMA elects 90th president with agenda to drive change
- Economic conditions drive surge in demand for accountant’s letters, CPA warns
- PwC to reveal timeline of activities in response to breach
- Almost half of Kiwi small business owners unable to pay themselves
- Sustainability reporting to ‘heavily impact PE deals this year’
- Bakers Delight franchisor faces court over alleged $1.25m underpayment
- ‘I came here thinking success would come quickly’
- ACCC publishes draft guidance to reduce greenwashing
- PwC scandal sparks calls to ‘break up the big 4’
- Businesses told to welcome risk in ‘era of perpetual crisis’: BDO report
- Big 4 operate ‘beyond the law’ as ‘pseudo corporations’
- Lack of oversight raises ‘potential for harm’ in consulting sector
- 8 in 10 small business owners ‘make costly mistakes’
- ASIC bans 2 directors for 6 failed companies, $3m in debts
- First Australian appointed president of DFK International
- JobKeeper ‘a lesson’ for future disaster support programs
- Company statistics reveal 62% jump in insolvencies
- ‘Over a third’ of accountancy tasks could be automated by AI
- CPA Australia CEO quits to pursue career in Europe
- Accountants must question non-financials to improve risk management
- ASIC crackdown claims 8 more SMSF auditors
- WA takes GP payroll tax off the table
- Joint ATO operation smashes $137m fraud and exploitation ring
- KPMG releases partnership agreement to Senate inquiry
- Labor unveils industrial relations reforms for casual workers
- Accountants in ‘unique position’ in evolving advice landscape
- Businesses urged to prepare for ‘evolving sustainability requirements’
- Government urged to modify thresholds for sustainability reporting
- Deloitte records 14% revenue growth
- Alleged money mule laundered $176k from fraudulent emails
- Cathro recruits fraud, forensic accounting specialist
- TPB forces 1,300 PwC staff back to ethics school
- Government to consult on digital reporting with regulators
- Regency Partners recruits manager from HLB Mann Judd
- RSM expands in Riverina with purchase of boutique firm
- Advisers can be liable to pay for bad advice following AFCA ruling
- Economic conditions trigger slowdown in sales for small business
- Bullying, racism, sexual harassment and overwork ‘endemic’ at EY
- AFCA chief blasts financial firms as complaints hit record high
- Role of CFOs, accountants ‘drastically changing’, says Anaplan
- Insolvency must address gender imbalance: Rodgers Reidy
- IPA calls for ‘simplified’ climate reporting for SMEs
- 9 out of 10 CFOs rediscover hunger to hire
- Cash flow forecasting critical in ‘unprecedented environment’, says BDO
- Accountants ‘ill prepared’ for tighter client ID regime
- Digital and construction disputes push ASBFEO past milestone
- Dmca advisory acquires Willoughbys Financial as founders plan for retirement
- CFO optimism ‘fading’ amid weak economic conditions
- Government contracts ‘in crowd’ keeps small business in dark
- FWO forces big business to hand back $500m in unpaid wages
- AAT upholds TPB ban of ‘dishonest’ Victorian tax agent
- Woolworths faces charges for alleged $1m in unpaid leave
- Contractor laws ‘rapidly evolving’, businesses warned
- AFP ‘had insufficient information from ATO to pursue PwC’ in 2018
- Slack record retention policies ‘expose firms to cyber crime’
- Most taxpayers ‘in the dark’ about their return result
- Carbon Group adds Harding Martin to Qld offices
- Government announces major crackdown on tax adviser misconduct
- Poor productivity the ‘biggest issue’ for construction sector
- EY acquires design and product development firm
- Mackay Goodwin appoints bankruptcy division head
- Stadium cleaners hit with $330k in fines for worker underpayments
- ACCC commences ‘greenwashing investigations’ following draft guidance
- Economic uncertainty to impact 30 June reporting, mid-tier firm warns
- Proposed climate reporting ‘a challenge for smaller entities’
- Ignition feature puts the profit back into scope creep
- Why automating your finance department can help your enterprise excel
- Cross-border partnership creates Canadian CPA pathway
- Reforms to wholesale investor rules ‘desperately needed’, says CPA
- AFSA ramps up compliance activity amid rising insolvencies
- Audit independence critical for ‘mitigating business risks’
- Grant Thornton flags critical considerations for renewable energy projects
- PwC partner wins reprieve from forced retirement
- IPA ‘excited for future of accounting’ as it celebrates centenary
- Risk appetite statements offer benefits for decision making
- Bankrupt lawyer with $4.7m tax debt ordered to pay $55k security
- Cuts to ASIC’s audit oversight ‘concerning’, says CA ANZ
- KPMG revenue climbs to $2.55 billion in FY23
- Government to review $170bn franchising sector
- Recycling companies fined $375k for underpaying refugees
- First-ever Women in Finance Summit launches
- Directors cop 3-year bans for collapsed companies owing $17m
- Best & Less forced to back pay hundreds of managers $5.2m
- Only Firms partnership offers accountants all-in-one consulting service
- Task-focused firms ‘risk losing staff to rivals’
- Cyber breaches cast long shadow over Optus, Medibank
- Prospa, Intuit among the nation’s best workplaces
- Small business restructuring scheme gaining momentum: BDO
- Conflicts of interest, aggressive practices ‘common issues for profession’
- Federal Court dismisses ASIC’s case against liquidator
- BCA calls for sweeping tax reforms to boost Australia’s economy
- File contractor payments on time or raise a red flag, ATO warns
- Court action ‘now ATO’s first resort for non-compliant sole traders’
- Grant Thornton bolsters tax group with 2 partners
- Complex rules ‘suffocating’ workplace relations system: BCA
- ‘Workers lose $850m a year to wage theft despite FWO’
- ‘Architect’ of $105m Plutus Payroll scam jailed for 15 years
- Carbon accounting ‘the next frontier of compliance’ says Xero
- Government to review competition policy settings
- Young entrepreneurs missing in action: ASBFEO
- BlueRock acquires boutique firm dnm, looks to expand interstate
- Poor image, talent mismanagement stunt profession: Xero chief
- Failed company directors ‘more likely to run risky personal debt’
- With an outsourced CFO function, one size fits all
- ‘Room for improvement’ on bank safeguards for guarantors
- Carbon Group expands in Sydney with Numeric Eight takeover
- Retail spending slows as interest rates hit household budgets
- How a wobbly drinks brand dodged last orders
- Survey reveals decline in use of AI by Australian businesses
- Perth man jailed, ordered to repay $110k in fraudulent GST refunds
- PKF elevates 2 to partner level for ‘dedication, proficiency’
- From Bananas in Pyjamas to a serve of Hot Toast
- ATO hits SMSF trustees with record disqualifications, fines
- Government releases draft legislation for objective of super
- Treasury explores policy options for unfair trading practices
- Automated financial reporting for Accountants & Bookkeepers
- PwC partners to cop 30% pay cut after ‘challenging year’
- Industrial relations changes introduced into Parliament
- BlueRock adds Arthur Advisory to accounting team
- TPB bans agent for $3.75m in bogus BAS claims
- Grant Thornton names national head of risk consulting
- Democratise work experience for women in finance: executive
- ASIC sues PayPal over ‘unfair’ overcharging fine print
- APESB calls for tougher standards for large professional firms
- Tassie aged care operator forced to back pay staff $6.9m
- CA ANZ defends business structure of big 4 firms
- Specialist body aims to codify ‘pre-insolvency void’
- Revise standard contracts or risk millions in fines, ACCC warns
- ‘No appetite for action’: ASIC’s response to audit breaches under fire
- CA ANZ pushes government to address ‘critical accountant shortages’
- Access to advice critical to small business restructuring, says Senator
- BDO audit partner banned until 2024 after botched financial report
- Tassie firm aspires to become the ‘Xero of carbon accounting’
- Unusual investments driving SMSF audit delays, compliance risks
- Perks private wealth operation teams up with Frontier Advisors
- The evolving role of today’s CFO
- Vincents targets advice specialty at Qld start-ups
- BDO recruits experienced tax specialist
- Government urged to consider TPB sanctions against professional firms
- ASIC calls for increased powers to address ‘major accounting failures’
- CIMA, CPA Australia renew reciprocal membership accord
- 'No escape’ from sustainability reporting for small business, warns BDO
- ‘Lighten up and delegate’: How women can juggle work and home
- Carbon boosts Perth presence with Ezetax takeover
- Draft legislation released on promotor penalty reforms
- Compliance burden ‘raises doubts about scale’ of PwC response
- Multiple start dates in IR changes create confusion for business, says BCA
- ATO linking system takes giant stride into business
- TPB slaps 5-year ban on accountant involved in $26m fraud
- Finalists unveiled for Women in Finance Awards 2023
- Company auditor numbers in steady decline, ASIC data reveals
- Sweeping reforms to streamline access to finance
- Salary growth ‘line-ball with CPI’, accountants in lead pack
- Starbucks comes up $4.5m short for thousands of staff
- ASIC chief accountant becomes AUASB chair
- Planned changes to super an attack on the retirement system
- ‘Most qualified accounting migrants wind up working elsewhere’
- CA ANZ opens voting on revised conduct code
- PwC announces disclosure and governance changes ahead of review
- TPB, ATO quizzed on whether PwC ‘too big to fail’
- FWO targets tenfold penalties for ‘serious’ UNSW payslip breaches
- Listen and be curious: how to help clients from different cultures
- 45-day threshold to complicate tax residency rules, accounting bodies warn
- Contingency fees for tax practitioners a ‘fundamental failing’, says senator
- Switkowski exposes flaws in PwC’s results-focused culture
- KPMG caught using secret ‘power maps’ to secure Canberra contracts
- Auditor suspended for 3 years for professional failings
- Professional bodies reject proposed objective of super
- ATO works hard to fix ‘flaw’ in client linking system
- Privacy Act to take in small businesses
- Financial reports evolving into ‘critical risk management tool’, says BDO
- Voice can enhance accounting profession, talent pool: CA ANZ
- CPA Australia appoints president, shakes up board
- Government told to scrap ‘problematic’ accountants’ certificates
- Torrent of disapproval greets CA ANZ finances
- ‘Covid changed merger dynamics, tech has become a wildcard’
- Expanded media platform unveiled to support Australia’s cyber sector
- Former students caught out by HECS index and complex rules
- Monash Uni loses appeal to rewrite staff agreements, dodge $9m bill
- Association calls for review of ASIC’s powers in response to PwC reforms
- ChangeGPS sounds alarm over clause in CA ANZ conduct rules
- BCA calls for more comprehensive business guidance on ESG claims
- PwC partners failed to self-disclose, CA ANZ admits
- An unforgettable experience for accounting players
- PwC reforms a ‘disproportionate response’: CA ANZ
- 5 most common fee disputes ‘could trigger refund action’
- Contractor redefinition ‘undermines sole traders’
- APRA plans to open the books on super fund spending
- Treasury names 3 members to bolster TPB
- CA ANZ ‘failing to tailor services to smaller firms’: ChangeGPS
- Joint bodies oppose increase to bankruptcy threshold
- How to service clients from Indigenous backgrounds
- PwC has ‘lost social licence to self-regulate’: Senator Pocock
- Why accountants must build a trust-based LinkedIn footprint
- Treasury to investigate ‘policy problems’ with big 4 firms
- Tax Institute appoints Scott Treatt as CEO
- Former PwC chief admits ‘multiple breaches’ of secret files
- Disability NFP back pays staff $6.5m after ‘fundamental’ payroll error
- Xero adds gen AI to help desk, promises faster service
- Hackers eye financial businesses for payday, says cyber expert
- KPMG UK hit with record £30m for audit failures
- Accountants ‘should act early on tax debt red flags’
- Carbon acquires fourth Victoria office with bookkeeping takeover
- Digital ID regime could raise compliance costs, government told
- You’re the voice and CA ANZ understands it
- Small business ‘dying from a thousand cuts to consumer spending’
- Logistics company fined for underpaying hundreds of migrants $3.6m
- Old views of finance linger to deter women: WGEA
- Regional accounting in the midst of a boom, says major bank
- CA ANZ should ‘stick to your own lane’ on the Voice
- ASIC reveals findings from financial reporting and auditing surveillance
- Accounting firms turn to acquisitions for growth, report reveals
- Tax agent who lent registration number banned for 5 years
- Whistleblower hits snag in $15m claim over alleged tax fraud
- An unforgettable experience for accounting players
- ‘Bloated’ CA ANZ blasted over $90m payroll bill
- Farmers, small business ‘to bear brunt of $3m super tax’
- Curb opaque powers of Commissioner, tax watchdog urges
- TK Maxx faces 33 charges over child labour laws
- Aged care provider pays back $2.1m in missing penalty rates
- Accounting firms list staffing as top challenge
- Perpetual changes to APES 110 ‘creating unnecessary complexity’, says IPA
- Flexible, tech-happy small firms ‘a lure to talented Gen Zs’
- Scam recruiters dupe vulnerable jobseekers out of $20m
- Bentleys snaps up Victorian boutique firm, eyes regional expansion
- Most bosses offer pay rises to keep valued staff
- ASIC bans father and son directors for 4 years
- Business training key to empowering women in finance
- Why modernising revenue management could secure a stronger 2024
- CA ANZ members approve tighter conduct rules
- 3 in 3 SMEs struggle to compete for talent
- AFP busts $229m Chinese money laundering operation
- Woman jailed for 20 months over $250k GST fraud
- AASB releases draft standards for climate-related financial disclosure
- Business owners are seeking exits without a plan, survey finds
- Aldi to face $150m wage theft class action suit
- ASIC prosecutes 100 for failing to assist liquidators
- Caddick fraud victims target class action against SMSF auditors
- Taskforce seizes illegal tobacco worth millions in dozens of raids
- ‘Do it sooner rather than later’: Louisa Sanghera talks succession planning
- $22bn in unpaid invoices means Christmas stress for business owners
- Former EY partner in tax exploitation case a ‘rogue operator’
- STP phase 2 to ‘trigger increase in ATO audits for health sector’, RSM predicts
- ‘Scale your impact’, says female executive
- Payday super will punish small business, says NTAA
- Acquisition-hungry Count buys Canberra accounting boutique
- Property developer cops ban for 5 failed companies owing $12m
- QAR ‘will fail to make financial advice affordable for most’
- Tread warily ‘or risk fallout’ with clients in distress
- Accountants ‘should cull one-third of their clients every year’
- IFPA calls for ‘fairer and proportionate’ SG penalty regime
- First-ever Women in Finance Summit sold out
- Do your homework on cultural nuances, accountants told
- Gippsland restaurant fined $4k for breaking child work laws
- ATO raises $973m in SG charge liabilities in FY 22-23
- Why business leaders need to talk about menopause
- Female-led start-ups need more funding, says CEO
- A reminder about managing trustee liability
- ASIC exposes dozens of dodgy investment websites on blacklist
- PwC to cut 300 jobs, close Adelaide support hub
- NAB Profesional Services: 2024 Accounting & Financial Planning Report
- Payday super ‘a significant departure’ from current SG regime: Joint bodies
- Intuit QuickBooks reveal how AI will change the accounting industry
- Government urged to reinstate SG amnesty for payday super rollout
- EY makes 232 staff redundant as consulting demand plummets
- Winners of the Women in Finance Awards 2023 revealed
- ‘Change risk-reward equation to deter cyber crims’
- Greater SG awareness to drive further spike in SGC penalties
- Comply with revised fixed-term contract rules, FWC warns
- Retailers brace for 8% fall in Christmas gift spending
- Government agrees to Greens’ amendment to TPB reforms bill
- SME sector running hot and cold, survey finds
- AFCA bolsters board with 2 finance professionals
- Furious CPA Australia decries ‘punishment of the many’
- HLB Mann Judd backs staff Olympic hurdles hopeful
- Routines, structures and tools play ‘critical role’ in offshoring arrangements
- Jobless rate edges up, hints of looser labour market
- Deferred consideration arrangements tipped as potential ATO target next year
- Mazars, Forvis form globe-straddling super-group
- CA ANZ calls for review of amendments to TPB legislation
- Superannuation objective bill ‘ineffective’ says IFPA
- RSM hits FY24 headcount target with raft of appointments
- Could automation entice more young Australians to the accounting profession in 2024?
- Finance skills of migrants ‘going to waste’, says recruitment specialist
- Demand makes accounting firms a seller’s market
- BDO, PKF expand footprints with NSW offices
- Limited uptake of association membership by auditors ‘a travesty’, says IAA
- Treasurer announces overhaul of AASB, AUASB and Financial Reporting Council
- Seek data points to record high WFH rates for accountants
- Black Friday sales to heighten cyber security risks for SMEs, says RSM
- Specialist flags crucial strategies for building offshore accounting teams
- Restaurant couple fined $70k for underpaying relatives
- SMEs urged to start preparing for Privacy Act changes
- Mackay Goodwin adds R&D, cyber security teams
- ASIC bans director behind $50m Magnolia Group collapse
- Morrows, William Buck appoint 2 high-fliers
- AFCA helps small business reclaim $23m, disputes up 9%
- Accounting salaries outpace insurance, banking
- CA ANZ fines PwC $50k, imposes reporting regime
- Bookkeepers, accounts clerks will lose 40% of tasks to AI
- ‘Motivate, rather than mandate, to bridge WFH gap’
- Black Friday? Cafes, restaurants charge towards black hole
- Accountants ‘happy but suffer from overwork, insufficient exercise’
- Most pay rises next year ‘will fail to match CPI’
- How tech can beat the late-payment cheats
- Big 4’s toxic culture ‘alive and well’, says Labor senator
- CPA Australia cuts staff in attempt to curb losses
- Start-up grant program a ‘golden chance for accountants’
- CPA Australia faces member revolt over job cuts, losses
- CPA Australia ‘descends into chaos’ as exec quits after 3 months
- Scammed Tassie firm recovers $150k in AFP ‘money mule crackdown’
- Jones creates fee-free adviser category for banks, super funds
- Business confidence plummets, two-thirds gloomy about 2024
- CPA Australia ‘final round' of job cuts claims four
- Chalmers names ‘tax expert’ Rob Heferen as next commissioner
- Code of conduct aims to to tighten ethical standards
- Profit-focused accounting events ‘have lost their way’
- Government unveils plans for ‘super complaints’ body
- Canberra scales up TPB sanction powers, penalties
- Director cops 1.5-year ban for failed companies owing $9.5m
- Cairns woman gets 3 years’ jail for $283k GST fraud
- ‘Brazen’ unregistered tax preparer fined $230k, banned for life
- CFO risk appetite sinks to 10-year low
- Legal high-flier to take reins at CPA Australia
- How to cope with the triple threat of 2024
- SMSFA laments ‘accountants out in cold' in QAR reforms
- Sydney cafe fined $124k for underpaying casuals
- Documentation the ‘the big message’ from 2023 court cases, says BDO
- Businesses urged to prepare for rising scam threat in 2024
- Concessional caps likely to rise in FY2024–25, CFS predicts
- ‘Fat cat execs at fault for accounting body turmoil’
- Treasury ‘strengthens’ BoT with 2 appointments
- ATO should find admin fix to ‘invisible’ debts-on-hold: IGTO
- Court decision a warning to accountants on statutory demands
- Auspost to refund $2.9m for lost, damaged parcels
- ASIC urges directors to lift financial reporting game
- Why CFOs will need to step up in 2024
- Canberra to mandate ransomware reporting, smart device standards
- Spike in succession planning an opportunity for virtual CFOs
- Why early access to super should be a last resort
- Why it’s time for accountants to raise their prices
- When accountants get a seat at the family table
- The year cyber chickens came home to roost
- Productivity turnaround ‘halts post-COVID freefall’
- The year that rocked the foundations of the big 4
- Workers accrue record 200 million days of annual leave
- More questions than answers in code of conduct revisions
- The year the ATO came out on top – again
- Cyber risks and talent the top issues for business leaders this year: KPMG
- Taxes, cash flow top small business worries
- Complaints to AFCA rise 23% to hit record, scam issues double
- The year of shakers and movers
- The year of workplace law upheaval
- RSM adds partners, principals to accelerate growth plans
- CFOs pay 30% premium for financial analysts, planners
- The year that tax crime didn’t pay
- Proposed payday super model ‘highly challenging’ for NFPs: BDO
- Government releases legislation for climate reporting reforms
- ASIC bans 2 directors over string of failed companies owing $9m
- Grant Thornton promotes long-time business adviser to principal
- The year the accountant shortage got worse
- Government strengthens anti-avoidance rules for resources sector
- The year professional bodies saw red
- CSLR appoints former UniSuper CEO to board
- What CEOs want in a CFO
- Joint bodies call for adviser exam to be scrapped
- TASA code of conduct changes ‘open costly can of worms’
- ACU admits to underpaying 1,100 casual staff $3.6m
- Mazars imports senior risk consultant ahead of ESG reporting mandates
- Joint bodies push for greater clarity on interstate EPOAs
- ‘Abysmal’ TPB leaves H&R Block in dark over TASA changes
- Tax Institute appoints Todd Want as 2024 president
- Quality of disclosures a ‘critical focus area’ for ASIC this year, warns KPMG
- Elmo Software taps Xero managing director for CEO
- TASA changes to ‘diminish regulatory regime’, joint bodies warn
- Sanction regime changes to bolster TPB’s armoury, says IFPA
- ICAEW, SAICA members lose TPB registration pathway
- SME job growth fall ‘a sign of recession-to-come’
- Mike Baird to join KPMG board as independent director
- How many attorneys does it take to create authority?
- Government told to take action on declining ATO service standards
- New-look tax plan ‘objectively better’, experts say
- Worker disconnect to ‘skyrocket’ with back-to-office mandates
- Industry bodies push for tax system shake-up
- Royal Commission reforms ‘a cautionary tale’ for TASA changes, joint bodies warn
- RSM revenue surges 15% on middle market demand
- Dob-in provisions to lead to ‘devastating outcomes’ for tax agents, Tax Institute warns
- Survey reveals early career accountants receive biggest pay rises
- SMSFA pushes for red tape reduction across super rules
- Tax agents ‘waste hours in confusing client linking process’
- 1 in 3 workers expect 4-day weeks by 2030, survey finds
- Separation of audit and advisory critical for improving standards, inquiry told
- Staff ready to help with client linking issues: ATO
- ICB urges Canberra to intervene in client linking, ditch red tape
- ATO closes $105m Plutus payroll case with final fraudster jailed
- Conflict ‘inherent’ for firms with public, private clients: Scyne
- ATO to sool debt collector on 150,000 taxpayers
- 1 in 4 finance execs lack confidence in company data
- Small businesses may ‘collapse under strain of payday super’, IPA warns
- Moore snags audit director from Deloitte
- CA ANZ triples member ethics training, mandates annual pledge
- Oracle releases generative AI service across tech stack
- Franchisees deem ACCC to be an ineffective regulator in recent review
- Businesses warned on rising threat of credential stuffing
- Tax debt linked to family violence, research finds
- Inflation erodes employee confidence, but bosses upbeat
- ‘No confidence’ in PwC’s ethics, senators say
- ATO issues warning to businesses on overdue TPARs
- Tax Office expands employment tax crackdown through random audits
- Operators, accountant of Chapel Street bars fined $137k
- Greater transparency needed on unregistered entities, says Tax Institute
- Climate reporting legislation ‘ambiguous and inconsistent’, warns IPA
- Grant Thornton flags critical tax governance considerations
- Bracket creep hands top earners biggest tax breaks, survey finds
- 5 Reasons not to miss the QuickBooks Roadshow
- ATO mulls delaying GST refunds to weed out bogus claims
- Slipstream adds financial services exec to coaching roster
- Global companies increasing hires in Australia to ‘expand footprint’, says Deel
- CBA hit with record $10m fine for knowingly underpaying staff
- ACCC to prioritise complaints from business and consumer groups
- Findex partners with Agtuary to offer carbon accounting to farms
- ATO taking R&D tax claims more seriously, expert says
- ‘Standout’ local result propels Mazars to double-digit growth
- IPA urges TPB to address ‘information vacuum’ on register
- Accountants top list of most in-demand jobs
- PwC scandal goes deeper than a few bad apples, academic says
- Annual wages growth climbs to highest level since 2009
- BDO appoints digital and technology partner
- Tax commissioner rebuffs claims of big 4, ATO ‘cozy relationship’
- Consulting industry fights being tarred by the PwC brush
- Former Deloitte staff push for royal commission into big 4 firms
- Consulting inquiry sets sights on ‘pseudo-APS’ labour hire
- ATO expected to double down on multinational opportunity
- Employment minister’s challenge to restraint clauses ‘complete rubbish’: lawyer
- Rein in ‘enormous’ big 4 partnerships, small firms urge
- Generative AI will redefine the model CFO, says Gartner
- Majority of digital finance transformation to be outsourced by 2026, says Gartner
- Majority of CIO and CFO relationships ineffective, research shows
- Business leaders look to technology to boost revenue in 2024
- Deloitte trails big 4 on gender pay, PwC best in class
- Gender Equity in the Accounting Profession: A Panel Discussion
- ‘Accounting trick’ keeping the big 4 below national pay gap
- ‘Proportionate response’ needed on consulting firm inquiries, cautions IPA
- Building company penalised over unpaid wages to apprentice
- Increasing number of firms offering 'impact accounting'
- Freelance accounting to grow under right to disconnect laws
- Up to 40% of foreign multinational profits going to tax havens, research finds
- Accountants ‘dismayed’ by professional bodies, senator says
- Australians are working more and producing less, research finds
- Finance leaders are getting change management wrong, Gartner says
- CA ANZ refutes TPB information sharing claims, suggesting further communication breakdown
- University funding overhaul a ‘game-changer’ for accountant shortage
- Count announces completion of Diverger acquisition
- Redacted US big 4 audit quality report still more comprehensive than Australia’s
- The top 5 financial services risks over next 12 months, ranked by CROs
- ChatGPT forces rethink of accounting curriculums
- AAT upholds ATO view in tax residency case
- Grant Thornton appoints new risk advisory partners and director
- Personal insolvencies continue to soar in early 2024
- PwC ousted acting CEO Kristin Stubbins ‘against her will’, inquiry hears
- ‘Meaningful’ penalty regime needed to deter misconduct, says Senator
- Professional bodies raise ‘significant concerns’ with draft sustainability reporting standards
- Unregulated, aggressively profit-driven: Senator speaks on the big 4
- From Start-up to Star: Meet Award-Winning Austral Accountants
- Terminations under new Code items pose ‘legal consequences’, TPB warned
- ‘It’s about bloody time’: Labor to pay super on parental leave
- Accountants need ‘significant’ ESG familiarity in M&As
- 'Behave more like men', why female CEOs fell by nearly a third this year
- First-ever Women in Finance Network Lunch launches
- Unregulated, aggressively profit-driven: Senator speaks on the big 4
- Don’t get distracted by PwC’s reforms, Senator warns
- ATO SingTel victory puts profit shifters ‘on notice’
- ATO pays businesses $150 to vent on client-agent linking
- Federal Government unveils finance rules grid
- Former White Sky partner pleads guilty to stealing from clients
- Finance and accounting wages to keep rising this year
- Blame game erupts over ATO’s client-agent linking
- Invoice defaults climb to record highs: CreditorWatch
- CFO warns not to let ego ‘infect’ acquisition decisions
- Accountant one day, broker the next
- PwC axes over 300 jobs in major restructure
- Grant Thornton cuts 13 staff from its management consulting group
- ATO clarifies ‘extremely complicated’ hybrid mismatch rules
- ASIC acts against 15 auditors over in-house audit concerns
- Accounting bodies flag top compliance failures across quality reviews
- Pitcher Partners Sydney adds 2 new audit partners
- Aussie practices can learn from lucrative branding strategies in US
- AI will ‘accelerate’ younger workers to senior roles, data suggests
- Beware of ‘quirks’ in draft GST ruling, cautions tax expert
- By its own logic, Deloitte is ‘disrupted’, ‘disadvantaged’, or ‘distressed’
- ‘Uniform approach’ critical for resolving interstate EPOA issues, says Barrister
- Training cuts will cost Australian businesses $2bn this year
- Senator: PwC tax leak might have been used to 'influence' multinational tax system
- ‘They will drain all I have if they can’: the ATO and the bitcoin ‘billionaire’
- Submissions open for Australian Accounting Awards 2024
- Integro Private Wealth boosts regional WA presence with partnership
- PwC global chair tells senators he won't share tax scandal report
- HLB Mann Judd flags tax traps for clients working offshore
- Consequences of audit failure greater for ethnic minority partners
- ATEO workforce management team joins Deloitte Consulting
- ‘Like banging heads against a brick wall’: agents blast client linking
- ‘Quality rather than quantity’: CA ANZ welcomes skilled migration reform
- Underpaid, overworked: the audit profession's ‘battle’ for talent
- How automating revenue management can help your global growth drive succeed
- BDO flags unique tax challenges with influencer clients
- PwC fails to demonstrate ‘genuine change’, Senate report finds
- Post-Covid period sees mixed performance across capital cities
- Tax overhaul a missed opportunity in competition review, minister says
- Client-agent linking threatening ‘viability of practices’, CA ANZ tells ATO
- Client-agent linking threatening ‘viability of practices’, CA ANZ tells ATO
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- Canberra urged to seize ‘sliding door moment’ for structural reform
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- Raise scam defences or face penalties, business told
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- Airwallex tackles challenge of KYC with generative AI
- Zeller corporate card ‘pain relief’ for expense control
- Retailers ‘must raise cyber game to win holiday shoppers’
- Cyber start-up Trustmi launches bank account validation tool
- Zeller pitches savings account into ‘gaps left by banks’
- AFP distributes decryption key to thwart Russian cyber crims
- 2024 to be ‘year of the cyber professional’
- The year accountants met AI
- HLB Mann Judd unveils automation plans for this year
- ‘Gone in 3 seconds’: all it takes for AI scams to steal your voice
- More guidance needed on AI use for accounting firms, says HLB Mann Judd
- Over 4 in 5 SME owners have no plans to use AI: ScotPac
- ‘30% of small business tie-ups with digital marketers end in tears’
- 4 out of 10 overlook expenses, baulk at clunky systems
- Canberra to develop guardrails for high-risk AI
- Jones lauds anti-scam response after losses drop 60%
- PayPal undergoes AI-driven ‘revolution’
- AI vital in cyber security arms race, say IT leaders
- Stuck in the middle: Why 2024 is the year to get serious about finance transformation
- QuickBooks aims Online Advanced at mid-market
- AI adoption seeing only ‘modest growth’ across organisations, survey reveals
- Accounting firms to ramp up technology spend in 2024, survey reveals
- Apple Pay outpaces Afterpay in digital payments race
- Cascade Consulting: Embracing technology with QuickBooks
- Kloud Connect announces strategic merger with data analytics firm
- Adopting automated invoicing to boost cash flow in 2024
- Accountants, finance professionals a top target for cyber criminals
- AI still playing ‘backstage role’ in accounting
- Xero spotlights carbon accounting in new partnership with Sumday
- Xero goes all in on AI with accounting chatbot launch
- AI and productivity are the 2024 ‘Don’t Look Up’ issues for mid-market and SMEs
- From Traditional to Tech-Savvy - Accounting Firms Plan Increased Tech Spend
- Unfreezing consumer data right could unlock 50,000 jobs, Deloitte says
- Payroll is a ‘goldmine’ for business data, research finds
- Compliance or complaints: The evolving role of AI in modern payroll
- Canberra to create $8m ‘one-stop-shop’ small business cyber service
- Unlock digital transformation trends and strategies for your firm
- Weaponising trust: when cyber criminals abuse the business cloud applications we all think are safe
- How to future proof your audit practice
- Australian accounting firm held to ransom by Hunters International
- ASIC appeals landmark Federal Court crypto case against Finder
- AI likely to cement big 4 grip over financial services, expert claims
- BlackLine reveals AI-powered journal analysis tool
- TaxLeopard partners with InnovateGPT to build smart tax assistant
- Mid-market could have most to gain from AI
- Overconfident, underprepared: business ransomware threat grows
- Global payroll push picks up steam as accounting complexity grows
- ‘The final straw’: Xero users baulk at another price hike
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