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Improving Audit Quality – The role of Directors and Audit Committees
by Steven Watson | May 6, 2022 | Client Management, Practice Management
The quality of financial reports is key to confident and informed markets. The purpose of the independent audit is to provide confidence in the quality of financial reports. In recent times, there has been much discussion about the role of the auditor and their...
7 things you should know as an ASIC Registered Agent
by Viola Pythas | Apr 12, 2022 | Client Management, Practice Management, Technology
ASIC places an obligation on registered agents to keep up-to-date, comply and implement processes within their businesses that ensures compliance with their registered agent responsibilities. It’s never been a better time to revisit ASIC’s expectations of ASIC...
Tax organisations urged to better safeguard client information
by Karen McDonald | Feb 7, 2022 | Client Management, Financial Services, Technology
The ATO is urging tax professionals to be more vigilant when it comes to protecting client information, both on and offline. Research by tech firm Tenable indicates that cybersecurity incidents increased during 2021. According to their findings, over 40 billion...
Auditing the Auditors – What’s ASIC trying to achieve?
by Steven Watson | Dec 17, 2021 | Client Management, Workflow Management
In recent years, ASIC has consistently expressed concern about the quality of corporate auditing in Australia, with the Commissioner calling on audit firms to “continue to evaluate the effectiveness of their current initiatives to improve audit quality.” ASIC is...
Adapting to the change that is here now
by Brad Geelan | Nov 13, 2021 | Client Management, Practice Management
Why sustainable change is the only way forward Intro We do a lot of predicting here at Business Fitness, and these days the only thing we can be certain of predicting correctly is that everything will always be changing. The tools you use will change constantly, your...
Where do you do your best work? (And why is that so?)
by Rob Pillans | Sep 21, 2021 | Business Services, Client Management, Featured Articles, Financial Services
Have you ever stopped to ponder this question? Two things have prompted me to do so: The obvious impact of COVID which has found people working in different physical spaces to where they might normally work; and Renovations at home mean I am temporarily out of my much...