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Aug 2018

Outsourcing partner investing

Outsourcing trends… why your Outsourcing partner needs to continue to invest

By: Odyssey Outsourcing
Tags: continuous improvement, procedures, Quality, systems, Training

Popular theory has three main ideas on organisations life-cycle: they are either growing, shrinking or stagnating. In the Accounting compliance world this is probably true, though with compliance sometimes it’s akin to watching paint dry. A bit boring, but it’s bread and butter for thousands of Australian accountants. So what about your Outsourcing partner, should they also be under the …

16

Aug 2018

The best time to outsource

Laggards.. When you are late to Australian Compliance Outsourcing

By: Odyssey Outsourcing
Tags: resistant to change, technology curve

More recently we’ve been talking to a lot of business owners who are resistant to change, and probably would accept the term “late adopters”. The technology curve that everyone pulls out at appropriate times would probably note these people as the 16% Laggards.  It’s probably not a pretty name for accountants to have, though we are resistant to change. One …

09

Aug 2018

Experts

Why you need to talk to an expert when it comes to outsourcing

By: Odyssey Outsourcing
Tags: fake news, Offshoring, outsourcing gurus

In this time of “fake news”, we’re seeing it blatantly obvious that there are a lot of mis truths in the world today, and the world of Australian tax and accounting compliance outsourcing isn’t any different. We’ve seen some of the accounting industry self appointed “leaders” tinkering in social media giving their opinion on outsourcing, and we’ve seen some self …

02

Aug 2018

Outsourcing is all about Trust

Outsourcing is all about Trust

By: Odyssey Outsourcing
Tags: Australian Accountant, Odyssey, Trust

For Australian accounting business owners, sending out a critical part of their compliance business to an overseas outsourcing services provider is pretty hard. It’s not only hard, but it’s soul wrenching, gut wrenching, and stressful. There are concerns about whether the quality is ok, whether the data is safe, whether the provider can be trusted to provide consistent quality, … …