After almost three decades overseas, we’ve seen some interesting behavior from Australians taking shortcuts overseas. Below are several of the examples, and some of the more interesting cases we’ve seen. Starting off with the interesting story of an Australian who killed a taxi driver over a $10 dispute on a taxi fare. However, let’s look at some of the issues …
The Future of the Professions – Commoditisation and Automation all around
We had an Australian lawyer visit our office the other day. This is pretty unusual, especially as we’re pretty much just about accounting for accountants. Anyway, he’d been referred by his friend, an accountant, who said he should look us up if he was ever in Vietnam. He’d more recently been feeling the pressure of the legal profession, and the …
New accounting software with Big data analysis is here
I had a chat last week with a gent from a small company that had created some new and quite exciting accounting software. What was interesting was that the gent was pretty much running the whole show by himself. He’d identified a niche market, which in this case was freelancers, and he had developed accounting software to support freelancers. And …
How Australian accounting firm owners can semi-retire with lower risk…
I received a message from an Australian accountant the other day. The message went something like this: Hi David, Just some feedback from my Partner in business (an old school hardworking now moving to retiring not the easiest lady to impress). You made it easy the questions that came back were of calibre and clearly indicated that you had certainly …