With the massive influx of offshore firms now providing outsourcing and offshoring (i.e. labour hire), there is the temptation for Australian accounting firms to go cheap. What usually ends up as a cost comparison exercise normally ends up as a costly exercise. In this blog we look at why selecting an Outsourcing leader is critical for Australian compliance outsourcing. There …
Top 5 reasons why Australian Accounting firms are outsourcing overseas
Australian accounting firms are moving into cloud, automation, and outsourcing at an increasing pace. In 2012 Odyssey’s CEO presented at the IPA Conference on “Outsourcing: Out of the closet and into the Cloud”. Fast forward to today, and everyone knows about outsourcing, and it’s widely accepted amongst the Australian accounting community. Certainly Australian accounting and tax compliance outsourcing has come …
10 key reasons why Bookkeeping outsourcing is critical for Australian accounting firms
There has been a lot of movement into bookkeeping by Australian accounting firms, and this has been well documented in the past year. As compliance moves into the cloud and is automated, it is now more critical that Australian accountants extend their influence and ability into areas of current concern, where their role of trusted adviser can best be utilized. …
Australian compliance: Automation and unemployment increasingly likely
During the Australian Christmas break we thought we’d reach out into some holiday reading. “Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work” by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, touches on some interesting concepts, which are particularly relevant if the apocalyptical end of compliance is even half way true. In this book, Nick and Alex put forward that Automation and …