Before engaging your clients with new services, there are two crucial steps you can’t miss. Now more than ever, clients are looking to you as their trusted advisors to support them through challenging times. Rather than simply calling on you for compliance lodgments,...

Current world circumstances have definitely made one rethink one’s values. Interestingly, coincidingly, we are seeing ‘tree change’ conversations increasing. There is this Practitioner (name removed for privacy reasons, but you know who you are) that of late, has left...

Accounting firms are essential to businesses and not-for-profit organisations, particularly when managing one or more components of an entity’s financial operations. Most accounting firms, however, don’t have the skills to prepare statutory financial statements or the...

Accountants who are responding to the challenge of proactively supplying a range of Business Advisory Services to clients should include on their list of duties a number of activities which may be referred to as “peripheral activities” but which, in many businesses,...

It’s a question I am often asked….how do we find the right mortgage broker for our business? It’s a question that invariably produces many more questions and points us back to the very first question - What are we looking to get out of having a relationship with a...

Choosing the best auditor for your firm Evaluating different SMSF auditors is not as simple as comparing apples with apples! With the deadline for ATO enforcement of the new Independence Code only months away, many Accounting firms are hastily reorganising their audit...