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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Employee share rules hold start-ups back
Employee share rules hold start-ups back
This is the scenario facing many cash-strapped start-ups trying to recruit and retain talented employees. The current employee share scheme (ESS)...
Accounting from anywhere
Accounting from anywhere
Mobile is a different type of operating environment, however, and one that’s overtaken the desktop/laptop computing market with astonishing...
Finding the right mix
Finding the right mix
But firm leaders need to take care in managing blended practices. Practitioners point particularly to the need for accountants to set clear rules...
In the cool of the sun
In the cool of the sun
Fullarton, a fourth-generation Scottish-Australian with a love of the bush and a penchant for wearing kilts and using colourful language, is a...
Key changes to privacy law explained: the impact on business
Key changes to privacy law explained: the impact on business
a new and more cohesive set of privacy principles - the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) new credit reporting provisions.The reforms will...
Who gets the money?
Who gets the money?
So don’t be surprised if one or more of your clients also asks whether they can get help as well. Open most business-related government websites...
Show me the money! What finance do small businesses ask for?
Show me the money! What finance do small businesses ask for?
This is an important issue. Small business is often perceived as a tough, cash-starved calling. Most people might think that many small...
Social Climbing
Social Climbing
The acquisition of new clients continues to be a dominant driver of profitability for small and medium practices (SMPs). Indeed, in the latest...
Brightening the Pilbara’s future
Brightening the Pilbara’s future
Take 54-year-old, transplanted American Joel Schreiber, for instance. His experience in the Pilbara convinces him that more Indigenous...
Ending regulation’s one-size-fits-all
Ending regulation’s one-size-fits-all
These regulatory contact areas range from health and safety to environmental protection, from construction standards to fair trading, from...
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