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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Riding high with success
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Bench mark of the future
Vancouver-based Bench, touted as a model for the future for accounting, had been set up as a virtual accounting department for small business, an...
Job market 2014: Analyse this!
Job market 2014: Analyse this!
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Trends for 2014 and beyond
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Charting a new course
Charting a new course
All are familiar stories – and all point to the increasingly obvious problems of the management planning process we call budgeting. Malcolm...
Your choice of futures
Your choice of futures
We all understand the problems manual workers have faced as farms have mechanised and much production-line work has moved to Asia. But as 2014...
Beware of Joint Venture Agreements
Beware of Joint Venture Agreements
A typical example of a Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) follows: • The members of the SMSF need additional capital to purchase properties from...
Brave new world
Brave new world
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SMSF pensions, are they really tax-free?
One of the greatest misconceptions relating to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), or any superannuation fund for that matter, is that...
Social media marketing may be the key to practice profitability
Social media marketing may be the key to practice profitability
While SMPs understand the importance of improving operational leverage (doing more with less), improving productivity (e.g., changing work...
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