Advertising for jobs has been made more complex not only due to digitisation of the advertising landscape, but also due to mobility issues of employees due to border lockdowns (both state and federal). It’s been noted one in five Australian businesses are facing a labour resource issue. Labour shortage has been over the news lately with some industries experiencing an …
Blog double trouble for Australian accountants
CPA Australia recently released an article on Australia’s reduction in migration numbers, commenting the effects are likely to last for years to come. For Australian accounting firm owners, there are going to be 3 main impacts: Many Australian businesses are going to struggle with finding Australian based workers, with a likelihood of wages growth going to cut down margins in …
Australia lacks workers
In an interesting opinion article last week, businesses across Australia are battling labour shortages as the economy lifts out of the Covid slowdown. Many of the shortages are easily understandable with the lack of working tourists being unavailable with the cessation of international travel, along with restaurants closing a couple of days each week due to lack of staff partly …
The major Benefit of Outsourced Australian Tax Preparation Outsourcing – the model of the future
Australian outsourced tax preparation outsourcing services can help public accounting firms of all sizes. Most critically, it allows a match between the resource requirements of clients (on a job by job basis), to the resource supply of the accounting firm (which should be on a job by job basis). Quite simply, the traditional Australian accounting model is based on a …
Offshore administration gaining momentum
Darin Tyson-Chan interviewed David Carter, CEO of Odyssey Resources, for SMSF Magazine. The practice of using overseasbased organisations to perform the administrative and compliance functions of SMSFs is increasing, according to a senior executive of a firm operating in the space. “We’ve seen quite a proliferation of companies offering these services in the last six to 12 months, so people …
Accountants go offshore to boost profits
“Cost pressure and labour constraints are forcing accounting firms to use low-cost offshore providers for basic compliance work this tax season. Accountants are paying offshore service providers between 15 per cent and 20 per cent of the equivalent local rates for basic tax returns, superannuation returns, the preparation of financial statements and business activity statements.” The author, Agnes King, interviewed …