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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What they don’t teach you at accounting school
What they don’t teach you at accounting school
The gap between the theory that students learn at university or TAFE and its practical application is increasingly coming into focus.Ian Casey,...
Making their Mark
Making their Mark
“My mum came from the land,” he says, “and my dad ran a menswear store. Two of my brothers still run it. I still have that shopkeeper’s mentality...
Clash of the superpowers
Clash of the superpowers
National accounting systems are increasingly enmeshed with each other, as Chinese and non-Chinese firms battle for both sales and capital on each...
Sizing up the SMSF sector
Sizing up the SMSF sector
Former Federal Minister for Superannuation Nick Sherry and ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell have both this year expressed concern that people with...
Tracey Jones: Love your work
Tracey Jones: Love your work
As a teenager in Tasmania, her first chosen career was that ultimate caring profession, nursing. But Jones soon realised her nursing studies were...
Traps in marriage advice
Traps in marriage advice
Typical examples of when things can come unstuck arise when someone, who may have been a client for years, comes into your office and tells you:...
Auditor exits
Auditor exits
ASIC consent is required under legislation for the resignation of public company auditors and the resignation and removal of scheme auditors or...
The picture worth a thousand spreadsheet cells
The picture worth a thousand spreadsheet cells
Big business has been working on it since the late 1980s, because they know the value of it to their bottom line. Today, smaller companies can...
Redress for ATO mistakes
Redress for ATO mistakes
Therefore, even if an application is successful, the associated costs can significantly – and unfairly – reduce the net proceeds the taxpayer...
A question of trusts
A question of trusts
trusts or trust beneficiaries who have received substantial income and have not lodged returns or activity statements; arrangements...
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