by admin | Feb 3, 2014 | Features
Take 54-year-old, transplanted American Joel Schreiber, for instance. His experience in the Pilbara convinces him that more Indigenous Australians should sign up for accountancy courses, and he forecasts a bright future for the region’s Aboriginal community. An...
by admin | Feb 3, 2014 | Compliance and Standards, Features
These regulatory contact areas range from health and safety to environmental protection, from construction standards to fair trading, from employment conditions to competition, from taxation to superannuation. It can add up to quite a burden: Australian studies have...
by admin | Feb 3, 2014 | Driving change, Features
Linda McGowan fits that mould. She has been advising small businesses for her whole career. Early on, she added a niche business – looking after musicians – to her ‘stock standard’ accounting practice, as her husband played in a rock band. Since then, she’s gone from...
by admin | Feb 3, 2014 | Driving change, Features
Colin Dunn argues accountants can transform their roles. A former accountant and now the chief innovation officer at accountancy practice advisory group Proactive Accountants Network, he sees more accountants turning themselves into what would effectively be their...
by admin | Feb 2, 2014 | Features, People/Leaders
In fact, when he and his wife sold Beauty and the Beach, the art gallery and craft shop they ran for a couple of years on the Mornington Peninsula, they made a loss.But, on a positive note, the Abbott Government’s Minister for Small Business says he gained a sound...
