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Aug 2017

TPB rattles Outsourcing and Offshoring Users

TPB rattles Outsourcing and Offshoring Users. Draft practice note released

By: Odyssey Outsourcing
Tags: Code of Professional conduct, Offshoring, Outsourcing, TPB

A few days ago the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) released draft Practice Note TPB(PN) D38/2017 to provide practical guidance and assistance to registered tax practitioners in understanding their obligations under the Code of Professional Conduct in relation to the use of outsourcing and offshoring. It should be noted that this is a draft practice note, and submissions and comments are invited …

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Aug 2017

Millennials start to make their mark

By: Odyssey General
Tags: Change, millenials

We thought we’d start off with a joke from the Edinburgh fringe festival this week, which appropriately is about change. “I’m not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change”. Certainly Australian accountants must be getting used to seeing change as a constant in the social media, newsletters, emails and various other media assaulting their …

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Aug 2017

Why Value Based billing isn’t dominating in Australian Accounting Compliance

By: Odyssey Outsourcing
Tags: compliance work commoditization, Timesheets, value based billing, value pricing

For anyone who has been in the Australian accounting compliance arena for any length of time, the argument for “Value Based Billing” (VBB) is an ongoing Holy Grail.  For some who have eliminated timesheets and moved to Value based billing the proof seems to be there, but for the majority of accountants we don’t see a stampeded to VBB. Somewhere …

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Aug 2017

5 Threats to Australian compliance work today

5 Threats to Australian compliance work today

By: Odyssey General
Tags: Australian compliance, Automation, Outsourcing, pricing pressure

In this blog we put down our thoughts on the 5 big threats to the future of Australian compliance. Software houses and Artificial Intelligence Starting the countdown from the most important threat (I guess that means we have the drumroll first), is Software houses and Artificial Intelligence. We put these at the top of our list, and research shows that …

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Aug 2017

Finding work life balance for Australian accounting firm owners

Finding work life balance for Australian accounting firm owners

By: Odyssey General
Tags: flexible resources, on-demand economy, workforce, young generation

Looking at the next generation entering the workforce the older generation frequently comment “things were different” when they entered the workforce, and that older generation were lucky to have a job. That older generation probably forgets that each new generation is accused of being less resilient than the previous generation. Certainly it can’t be denied that a “job for a …