by admin | Jun 2, 2013 | Features, People/Leaders
Company: RMG Partners Position: Principal IPA status: FIPA Location: Sydney Ian Purchas compares trying to save a troubled business with taking a nasty lump to a doctor. “It’s much the same,” he says. “Expert advice is needed – urgently. Problems almost certainly...
by admin | Jun 1, 2013 | Features
Engage Super Audits is among a small group of accountants that has decided to specialise in SMSF auditing over the past two decades. It audits about 3,000 funds each year. Engage’s founder and CEO, Jo Heighway, says her firm often sees administration problems with...
by admin | Jun 1, 2013 | Features
Instead, when Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, The Hon Wayne Swan MP, delivered his sixth Budget on 14 May, much of the focus was on targeting what the Government and ATO consider to be ‘loopholes’. The major revenue measures announced in the Budget have been...
by admin | Jun 1, 2013 | Features
A writer and thinker who was also teacher and friend to Leonardo da Vinci, he is depicted holding a book. But it is not a religious or even an artistic text – it is his treatise on mathematics, called the Summa de Arithmetica. Published in 1494 in accessible Italian...
by admin | Jun 1, 2013 | Features
The latest investigation, by the Senate Economics References Committee, has again recommended that the Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) write a small business banking code. The committee handed down its Post-GFC Banking Sector report in November 2012. But the...