Special articles relevant to current issues and challenges for accounting firms
Are you currently undertaking additional grant work? Are your scope and engagements up to date to mitigate your practice’s risk of scope creep? Written by Rebecca Mihalic Properly managing your scope and engagements through crisis can mitigate your risk. As NSW enters...
Good profitability, strong cash flow, growing return and being client-focused go hand in hand. At practice level, most accountants believe this, but they have a hard time identifying specific actions and communicating the benefits to clients in a manner they can...
Business Fitness has published the Good Bad Ugly 2015 Benchmark Summary report. For the first time in 14 years of conducting the Good Bad Ugly bench marking survey, revenue per partner has tumbled. A fall of 8.9% is quite significant. The story is not as grim when...
There are opportunities in many small/medium enterprise businesses for accountancy businesses that are prepared to offer virtual CFO services. What services are required? A wide range, similar to the type of activities that a CFO would undertake in a public company....
Most Australian businesses - including small businesses - are now covered by the national Fair Work system and risk expensive, damaging employee claims and substantial fines or penalties for breaches to Australian workplace laws such as the Fair Work Act 2009....
Australia is home to the world’s most complex employment laws. We’ve got around 130 Modern Awards, 10 confusing National Employment Standards (NES), hundreds of pages of legislation, and complex rules relating to dismissals. It’s obvious why employers are confused,...
Everything we accomplish happens not just because of our efforts but also through the efforts of others. The biggest difference between people who manage others versus people who lead others is how they develop those under them. As all leaders know, untitled or not,...
