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Grant Update
by Peter Towers | Aug 24, 2015 | Featured Articles, Financial Services
The Federal, State and Territory governments are continually updating and changing government grants. Products like ESS BIZGRANTS are continually changing to incorporate amendments and new grants. One significant change that has been made in the last couple of weeks...
Division 7A & Trusts – The Round Robin ends!
by Rob Power | Aug 24, 2015 | Featured Articles, Financial Services
From the outset there is no mischief with a discretionary trust distributing to a beneficiary that is a private company, provided of course, that the company is an eligible beneficiary of the trust. However, add into that simple mix the generally universal non-payment...
Professional Fee Funding: Please Explain?
by Bruce Coombes | Jul 30, 2015 | Featured Articles, Financial Services, Latest News
Professional fee funding, factoring, invoice discounting, receivables finance, invoice financing, cash-flow finance… the list could go on. It’s not hard to see why there’s confusion around financing options in the accounting world. But what do all of these different...
Insights into current audit activity
by Roman Kaczynski | Jul 29, 2015 | Featured Articles, Financial Services
As the dust settles over the momentum generated from the last financial year, I am keen to share with you the insights from a claims perspective. The team at Accountancy Insurance has compiled client data from the last financial year, which I am sure you will find...
CommBank Accounting Market Pulse Report
by Marc Totaro | Jul 15, 2015 | Featured Articles, Financial Services
The Commonwealth Bank recently released its bi-annual Accounting Market Pulse report, which is developed in partnership with Beaton Research + Consulting. The report is based on a survey of the top accounting firms across Australia, identifying a number of key...
The Real Benefits of SMSF Audit Independence
by David Saul | Jun 23, 2015 | Featured Articles, Financial Services, Latest News
In recent years - the smsf environment has taken enormous strides forward. These include all aspects, such as administration, strategies, technology and YES the audit. However I am still amazed by some practices who maintain the audit function (in-house) while...