It’s a difficult time to be looking for more accounting resources. We’re seeing increased pressures on accounting wages domestically due to the three prong factors of limited skilled short term and long term immigration exacerbated by budget cuts in the home affairs department (responsible for processing skilled visas), reduction of international students in the Australian universities, and high job vacancy …
How Odyssey Assists Smaller Accounting Firms Take on More Complex Clients
We recently received an email from a client, and wanted to reproduce a few interesting observations by the client, a small accounting firm with a sole practitioner partner. There’s not much to add as this client has summed up the wealth of experience with Odyssey’s compliance divisions, as well as the investment in systems to provide a seamless experience for …
The 3 Important Tips to Make Outsourcing a Success
From the past years, we’ve identified 3 tips important to make outsourcing a success: Tip 1. Select a large Outsourcing services provider who has plenty of experience in the marketplace, and plenty of resources to allow you to expand. Whilst the newer comers into the Outsourcing space might seem attractive, the lower cost usually comes at a price. The lack of a …
The SMSF auditor is tougher this year. Sorry, not sorry
We recently noticed a complaint from one of our accounting firm clients, that the SMSF auditors we were using (we switched to a panel of SMSF auditors) were making things difficult by asking for signed documents from the trustees, pieces of information to prove ownership and valuation, and generally just making the SMSF audit process a lot more difficult, in …
Australian tax and accounting compliance Outsourcing forecast to increase 75% from 2020 to 2022
Commbank released their June 2020 marketing pulse recently. Most interestingly Australian tax and accounting compliance Outsourcing forecast to increase 75% from 2020 to 2022. As a direct result of their coronavirus experience, 21% of firms responded that they would increase their use of contractors and outsourcing. Many firms had invested in cloud technology and made the transition to working from …
Automation in Australian Accounting: Risks or Opportunities?
Automation has been threatening thousands to millions of jobs with obsolescence, and accounting jobs are supposedly at the top of list. Indeed, there is no surprise here that accounting automation truly makes productivity improvements in Australian compliance services. Accounting software that automate processes have taken over many back-office functions in accounting services. Hence; Australian accounting firms who were charging their …
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