by Staff Reporter | Oct 10, 2014 | Compliance and Standards, Features
When the financial crisis up-ended the global economy in 2008, the attention of governments and regulators around the world swiftly and inevitably turned to failures of transparency and accountability in the private sector – particularly the financial industry. As a...
by Staff Reporter | Oct 10, 2014 | Driving change, Features
Many accountants want to provide clients with investment advice, particularly advice on setting up self-managed superannuation funds. For a large number of accountants, that desire is driven by their clients, who look to them for advice. For some accountants,...
by Staff Reporter | Oct 10, 2014 | Features, Technical Advice
When a family outgrows its home, one option is to extend or renovate by calling in the builders with their toolboxes. In the same way, when a client’s trust structure is no longer appropriate, accountants must dig into the toolbox to find and use the right tools to...
by Staff Reporter | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog
It is more than seven years since the GFC first impacted economies around the world. The fallout has seen the likes of the G20, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and global standard setters such as the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)...
by Staff Reporter | Oct 10, 2014 | Driving change, Features
Every accountant knows the stereotype of the profession: obsessive, uncreative, money-obsessed buzz-kills, decent rather than actually good. Enter US historian Jacob Soll’s new book, The Reckoning, which casts the accountant in a very different light. Soll lays out...
