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How can Client Segmentation Help Your Firm?
What can You do Encourage the Team to be more Proactive in Dealing with Clients?
What Software Do You Use to Deliver Business Advisory Reports?
Navigating New Shores: The Role of Auditors in Australia’s Climate Reporting Landscape
Preparing to deliver advisory services
Secure Document Hosting: Why ATO Smartdocs Chooses Azure and Office 365
What can You Do to Stay Focused on Urgent and Important Actions?
How can a Young Accountant Help the Firm Manage Client Expectations?
Simplifying 4 Common Challenges for Accounting Firms
Maximizing Efficiency and Security: The Importance of Managing ATO Correspondence
What Challenges do You Face in Keeping Business Advisory Client Relationships Fresh?
How Can I Better Manage Scope of Work to Reduce Write-offs?
New Ignition and MYOB Integration Fuels Efficiency and Profitability For ANZ Businesses
Switching Gears: Critical Considerations When Changing Your Business’s External Auditor
The Importance of Checking ATO Documents and the Benefits of Automation
How can I Deal Better with Difficult Clients?
Observations about succession in accounting firms
What can I do to Better Explain Terms of Engagement with New Clients?
Ensuring the Security of ATO Document Delivery: The Crucial Role of 2FA/MFA for Australian Accounting Firms
How can I Improve the Throughput of Accounting Work?
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
How can Client Segmentation Help Your Firm?
In today’s episode of ‘From the eLearning Trenches,’ we asked one of our learners, a client service administrator in public practice, to consider what types of client segmentation their firm undertakes and whether this results in new service opportunities? Learner...
What can You do Encourage the Team to be more Proactive in Dealing with Clients?
In today’s episode of ‘From the eLearning Trenches,’ we asked one of our learners, a client...
What Software Do You Use to Deliver Business Advisory Reports?
In today’s episode of ‘From the eLearning Trenches,’ we asked one of our learners, a partner in...
What can You Do to Stay Focused on Urgent and Important Actions?
In today’s episode of ‘From the eLearning Trenches,’ we asked one of our learners, an experienced...
TECHNOLOGY
ATO’s Privacy Breach: $557 million filed in false claims
No company is safe – not even the ATO! Cybercriminals have filed over $550 million in false claims over the past two years, finding a glitch in the ATO’s digital identity system. Bogus myGov accounts were created by the hackers linking them to real taxpayers’ ATO...
Is your firm at risk of a data breach?
Discover what you can do right now to protect your firm from a data breach In recent times,...
What you need to know: The Federal Budget’s focus on Cyber Security
On Tuesday evening, 9 May 2023, and after more than a decade, the federal Labor government...
Tough Reforms Coming To Australia’s Privacy Act: Business Owners Be Prepared
There’s no ignoring the media’s latest coverage of the calculated cyberattacks targeting Optus,...
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Audit Shield claims activity across Australia
1 July to 31 December 2023 The intricacies of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and other government revenue authorities’ audit activities are ever evolving. They demand constant vigilance from businesses, self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), individuals and...
How outsourcing led to a 30% boost in growth for this financial services provider
How outsourcing led to a 30% boost in growth for this financial services provider Located in NSW,...
ASIC releases first integrated financial reporting and audit surveillance report
ASIC has released its inaugural integrated financial reporting and audit surveillance report,...
Embracing Digital Disruption: How Auditors harness the power of technology for financial reporting
Financial reporting is a crucial process which provides valuable information about a company's...