Young gun hits targets at 21
Harry Flett is a 21-year-old business founder and former winner of CA ANZ’s Emerging Leaders Award. He explains his business, and how CAs can navigate the future...
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Helping family business clients spot the potholes
Accountants advising family firms need more than technical accounting expertise to get it right. Robert Powell FCA, the 2018 Family Business Australia Accredited Adviser of the Year, shares his tips...
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How do you build the perfect error check into a financial model?
Embedding error checks in your spreadsheet design cuts down the workload by shouting out when there’s a figure you need to look into more closely...
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Handling client money
What is client money? Client money is any money coming into the control of a member in public practice, or any of the member’s personnel which are the property of a client. It includes money...
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Combining digital with the human touch
Despite the rise and rise of technology, great customer service for all sorts of business is still driven by human interaction...
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How cheap prediction can change accounting
Artificial intelligence may be best understood as “cheap prediction”. And prediction is a useful input to decisions – but people will still be needed to make the decisions...
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Failing to connect
Studies of teleworking in accounting firms show the accounting profession still struggling to make telework work. Firm leaders need to step up...
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Blending business with passion
London-based investment banker Tracy Benge suddenly realised she should follow her passion for wine...
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Risky business
As a chartered accountant, you are faced with risks – and risk exposure begins as soon as you begin to offer any professional advice...
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Robotics in finance – new report terminates the myths
Lack of understanding sees one in two CFOs fail to embrace robotics...
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Perth partners share a passion for giving
With a surname so appropriate for his profession, Ross Ledger FCA has pursued accounting for more than six decades. He is the perfect foil for business partner Vivian Wang CA...
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Listen: KPMG chair walks a tightrope
KPMG Australia’s new chairman Alison Kitchen, whose audit career spans more than 30 years, wants her firm to open up to the public. Can that plan survive in a sceptical era?...
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Sponsorship smarts – how to get a win-win
As expectations of social responsibility change, sponsorship needs to move beyond just writing cheques towards long-term partnering, says Giddy Up founder Brian Steele...
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Stars align in a global career
A-STARS Advisors co-founder Robert Quinlivan FCA reflects on the 28-year career that has taken him from Perth to New York, London, Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong...
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Seeing into the future
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand President Jane Stanton explores the need to uphold the profession’s competencies and values...