This year’s Good, Bad & Ugly Insight poll has recently been released. The 2017 poll generated data on rates and pricing across Australian Accounting firms, which paints a generally optimistic future of how Australian accountants see the year ahead. The impacts on and challenges to the industry seem to be both evolving and staying the same. For the fourth consecutive year …
The Legal market pulse. Exploring alternative business models including outsourcing
The Commbank Legal Market Pulse has some interesting reading for Australian accountants, especially in the compliance area. Australia’s leading law firms are moving into, and responding to, a rapidly changing market. The changes are brought about by intensifying competitive pressures, with subdued revenue growth, margin compression, and increasingly demanding clients. This is compounded by continual price negotiations, the increasingly competitive …
Is Social Media marketing all that it’s cracked up to be
There has been a large amount of effort spent on social media, and a large amount of effort in convincing business owners on the importance of being “social” online. Certainly many Australian accountants are being bombarded not only with “Compliance is dead so move to business consulting” messages, but almost at the same pace there are messages that any Accounting …
The 2017 salary rise forecast indicates up to 6.3% raises for Tax Compliance staff. Time to outsource?
Robert Half released their 2017 Salary guide with insights into the latest salary ranges for finance and accounting, technology and administration and office support professionals. The report says the biggest gains in starting salaries are in Brisbane, with pay cheques in finance and accounting jobs set to rise by 3.5 percent. Melbourne is second with increases of 2.5 per cent. The top …
Australian Tax Workers: Is the next wage push just around the corner?
Recently Morgan McKinley released their 2017 Accounting & finance Salary guides. Focusing on the compliance salaries in Accounting & Finance Salaries in Commerce & Industry the more interesting numbers come from the “Tax Accounting” side with newly qualified accountants being paid $70,000 to $90,000; Senior accountants being paid $90,000 to $120,000; Managers $100,000 to $150,000; Senior Managers $140,000 to $180,000; and Directors/Heads from …
Accounting Compliance gets a breather
The annual 2016 Good Bad Ugly – Executive Summary Report has just been released and there is some interesting news on the Compliance front. The Business Fitness team have pushed out some revelations contradicting the current thought that compliance is dead. In an interesting twist this year, the report indicates that while accounting firms have introduced other services into their business …
Should offshore workers throw away their timesheets?
In the Australia CPA September edition of the “In the Black” magazine, there is an interesting article on “Time out on billing”. Part of this article mentions of course the Value pricing that has been proposed by consultants to accounting firms for all of this current century, if not well into last century. Ron Baker, the founder of the VeraSage …
An NZ Economists view of things
We thought this week we’d strike out into some interesting territory, and Tony Alexander’s BNZ weekly overview of 25th August 2016 gives some interesting reading. With most Australians holding property or intending to invest in Australian property, the NZ outlook gives a good view of our own market. Though it should be remembered that NZ has no stamp duty for property, no …
2025 and the Future of Compliance
2025 is just around the corner, and for pretty much all of us in Australia we’ll be somehow engaged in work or play. Most of the present factors that we see in our daily news will continue to affect work, life and play. Australia will have an increasing need for infrastructure to remain competitive, there will be an ageing population …
Economy in Transition – Startups, innovation and a workforce for the future
The paper, Economy in Transition – Startups, innovation and a workforce for the future, was recently released by StartupAUS, the national start-up advocacy group. The discussion paper warns up to 4.6 million jobs may be at risk if Australia does not prepare its workforce for the digital future. The paper was produced with global networking firm LinkedIn and Sydney startups Expert360 and CodeCamp, and suggests few jobs …