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Why banks are now chasing your SME clients
Australia’s big banks and non-bank lenders have a new focus: small business. This pivot is driving competition and improving access to finance for SMEs.
Quiz: Are you ready to start an accounting firm?
Accountants may start small practices because they want autonomy to do what they love: help clients with their year-end accounts, bookkeeping,...
Q&A: Managing the stress of insolvency
Composite image: James Flaherty / Getty Images In 1991, on a flight from London back home to Sydney, James sat next to a stranger that would...
Our innovation slump is holding back MSME competition
For a while there, Australia was known for innovation – celebrating David Unaipon as a ‘renaissance man’ for his early developments in perpetual...
ATO to triple credit referrals in ‘stronger actions’ on debt
The ATO will dramatically increase its use of credit referrals to issue about 2,500 this financial year as part of “stronger actions” to recover...
Chris Barrett has a formidable job ahead as the new Productivity Commission chief
Remarkably, the Commission used the review to target one of the key policies on which the Albanese government was elected. With Chalmers...
“I was going to wear what I wanted” – How Sandra Andrews built her own practice
Sandra Andrews was the first person in her family to graduate from university. “Both my parents immigrated to Australia from Mauritius. They came...
How to spot money laundering: 3 red flags
In April this year the Attorney-General announced public consultation on Australia’s anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing...
Compare your quiz results: Are you ready to use chatbots?
We’ve collated the findings and asked member Zac Hayes, who is currently looking into integrating chatbots into his practice, to share his tips...
ATO reveals characteristics and behaviours it will focus on
The ATO has revealed the characteristics, behaviours and tax issues that it would be fixated on when it reviewed privately owned and wealthy...
Q&A: How Chris Baskerville brings empathy to insolvency
Chris Baskerville describes his father, Peter, as a serial entrepreneur. When Chris was a young child, Peter established Craft Time – a business...
