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Payday Super arrives midyear. Are your clients ready?
Payday Super will mean more admin and costs for small businesses, says the IPA's Tony Greco. It's time to prepare.
The ethics centre developing FASEA course
The course will help financial advisers meet the requirements of the FASEA reforms with the delivery of a pilot ethics and professionalism...
‘High quality advisers’ will be driven out of the industry: CEO
“Sending a group of advisers who have been doing their job unblemished for up to 20 years back to school … I don’t know if that is a solution,”...
The many roads that lead to meeting FASEA’s education standards
Each adviser should consider their own circumstances and decide which pathway is most suitable for them. What are the pathways for existing...
ASIC urges financial institutions to plan for end of LIBOR
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has written to the CEOs of several major Australian financial institutions regarding...
ATO issues audit checklist for events-based reporting
Since the transfer balance cap reporting commenced for SMSFs, the ATO said it has seen a high level or re-reporting from the sector. Read more at...
Helping clients in dispute: How accountants can provide real value
Back in 2009, the then federal attorney-general Robert McClelland said that the “critical test” for our justice system is whether it is “fair,...
UK experience shows independent advice has a future
In a speech to delegates at the Netwealth UK Study Tour, associate lecturer of the University of Northampton, Gillian Cardy, said that while...
ATO to crackdown on Australians investing in crypto assets
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is collecting bulk records from Australian cryptocurrency designated service providers (DSPs) as part of a...
Scams cost Australians half a billion dollars in 2018, ACCC
"Total combined losses reported to Scamwatch and other government agencies exceeded $489 million – $149 million more than 2017," ACCC deputy...
Gender progress on ASX 200 boards stalls
The CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) has challenged all companies to look around their boardroom and ask if there is...
