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Apr 2016

Millennials and their impact on Australian Accounting firms… and the fixed offshore resource model

By: Odyssey Publication
Tags: Fixed offshore model, Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials

Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation or Generation Y) are the demographic generation following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when the generation starts and ends; most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. The Millennials seem to be making a lot of people worried. With blog postings like …

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Apr 2016

More Disruption on the way… SMSF’s and free HR Software

By: Odyssey In the Press
Tags: Disruption, SMSF

Westpac Banking Corporation’s venture capital fund Reinventure Group has invested into Flare HR, a startup that is looking to disrupt the industry super funds’ stranglehold over the market for default super funds. Flare HR provides free HR software to small-to-medium-sized enterprises. The free software is a fully digital on-boarding process for employees and includes employment contracts that are signed electronically by cloud, performance reviews, …

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Apr 2016

Blockchain technology is going to change the face of finance forever

By: Odyssey In the Press
Tags: BlockChain, Disruption

We’re starting to see some momentum in blockchain, with blockchain being touted as the glue that is going to drive a productivity revolution across the globe on par with what Henry Ford did with the automobile. Big banks around the world are moving at pace to build blockchains. A group of 40 global banks have used different distributed ledger technology to …