Beyond the grid: AI inventors target Excel’s formula
For 40 years, Excel has seen off every challenger. Now AI innovators think they may finally have the recipe that can break Microsoft's spreadsheet dominance.
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Raising the financial reporting bar
Raising the financial reporting bar
ASIC recently announced its focuses for 30 June 2014 financial reports, as well as findings from its reviews of 31 December 2013 reports, Quality...
What makes successful rainmakers?
What makes successful rainmakers?
In my previous column, explained why advertising and digital media have made even more vital the role of the ‘rainmaker' — the accountant who can...
Home truths about an SMSF getaway
Home truths about an SMSF getaway
Overseas property can easily appear an attractive investment. Who wouldn't want an apartment in Paris, a Balinese beachfront villa or perhaps a...
Know your limits
Know your limits
My whole life has been about risk,” says Daryl Koch, who runs his own business as a risk and governance adviser to small and medium companies....
Selling your services
Selling your services
The accounting, medicine, law and engineering professions are realising they can no longer rely – or survive - on referrals and reputation alone....
Golden rules for advertising
Golden rules for advertising
Truth in advertising is not just a slogan - it's the law. The Australian Consumer Law ensures businesses compete on a level playing field in...
Taking the corporate approach
Taking the corporate approach
SMSFs with sole-purpose corporate trustees - that is, acting in no other capacities - have been touted as superior for many years. While the...
Dividend washing gets an airing
Dividend washing gets an airing
Taxation Determination TD 2014/10 deals with what is known as 'dividend washing. ln the ATO's view, dividend washing occurs when shareholders...
Owners corporation fees: find the balance
Owners corporation fees: find the balance
The saying goes you get what you pay for. Yet when it comes to owners corporation fees, investors are concerned that they are being hit with...
Alienation alert
Alienation alert
Tax is ever changing, but some things never change. The concern with alienation of personal exertion income through trusts is one of those...
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