by Chris Sheedy | Mar 19, 2024 | Features
Between 1999 and 2015, the UK’s Post Office wrongly accused 736 sub-postmasters of theft and fraudulent accounting, because of problems caused by its Horizon IT system. The accusations resulted in convictions (many now overturned), bankruptcy, the loss of livelihoods...
by Jasmine Crittenden | Mar 18, 2024 | Features
Research from across the world shows that mothers earn less over the course of their careers than fathers and less than women without children. This is known, shorthand, as the “motherhood penalty”. Last year, a new study examined the problem from another perspective,...
by Chris Sheedy | Mar 14, 2024 | Features
“First, you have to understand how people connect and how you build trust with clients,” Dr Kerr says. Most importantly, it must be understood that what clients most want from an accounting business is a trusted relationship. Technology can help with that, but not in...
by Chris Sheedy | Mar 14, 2024 | Features
When best selling small business author and global presenter Andrew Griffiths ran a marketing company, one of the most successful promotional activities he took part in was a partnership with an accounting business in his local area. “I’d arrange to do a presentation...
by Hallie Donkin | Mar 13, 2024 | Features
The Australian Payment Times Reporting Regulator’s January 2024 update identifies concentration of industries working with and making payments to small businesses, reporting that just five industries make up more than half of the reporting entities that make payments...
