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Financial advisers told to become customer ’obsessed’

Financial advisers told to become customer ’obsessed’

by Shared by Australian Financial Review | Mar 8, 2019 | News

The advice to start with customer needs and work backwards comes following the banking royal commission, which highlighted multiple examples where a financial institution’s profit focus led to customers receiving treatment that was poor or potentially illegal.Read...
ASIC may name accounting firms that fall short on audit quality

ASIC may name accounting firms that fall short on audit quality

by Shared by Australian Financial Review | Mar 7, 2019 | News

But the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has yet to decide on the thresholds it will use when determining if a firm has fallen short on audit quality. Read more at the Financial Review.
Some big four partners are ’disrupting’ the tax system, the ATO tells estimates

Some big four partners are ’disrupting’ the tax system, the ATO tells estimates

by Shared by Australian Financial Review | Feb 27, 2019 | News

A Senate estimates hearing last Wednesday also heard that parliament could be given rare insight into the income of Australia’s big four consulting firms PwC, KPMG, EY and Deloitte, with the ATO to consider revealing the tax information of the partnerships.Read more...
ASIC may name accounting firms that fall short on audit quality

ASIC wants profit confiscation powers, criminal division of Federal Court

by Shared by Australian Financial Review | Feb 22, 2019 | News

Daniel Crennan QC, the head of ASIC’s new enforcement unit, applauded the “astronomical” fines, “crippling” and long custodial sentences now attached to white-collar crime.Read more at the Financial Review.
PwC, KPMG, EY, Deloitte may face audit challenge from IBM, Accenture

PwC, KPMG, EY, Deloitte may face audit challenge from IBM, Accenture

by Shared by Australian Financial Review | Feb 21, 2019 | News

The change in approach to auditing could result in technology consulting firms such as IBM and Accenture winning more “pre-audit opinion” work from companies, says Fiona Czerniawska, a director at British-based research firm Source Global Research.Read...
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