Outsourcing has been in the news recently, and online comments on what Australian accountants are thinking about outsourcing are quite enlightening. So what are they actually thinking? Trolling through some Australian online sites, we’ve found some interesting comments. Australian accountants are: concerned about the impact of outsourcing have seen poor work quality Have concerns that the foreign worker does not …
Mediocrity and the offshore worker
There is a large amount of Australian compliance work being done overseas, and recently there have been cheaper “offshore” offerings by labour hire firms. These labour hire firms tend to offer a controlled offering, which seems to be accepted in line with the traditional business model some accountants understand and prefer. Newer accounting business model adoptees are ok with the …
2018 – the year to bring Bookkeeping back inhouse, and outsourced.
Bookkeeping has been on the backburner for quite some time. A lot of accountants have been focused on the complexity of compliance, the cloud, digitization, and automation. At the same time, there’s been a battle in the SMSF arena as the competition heats up, and not just between accountants who have been outsourcing overseas, but also with newcomers in the …
The Top 9 reasons why your Accounting firm probably isn’t Outsourcing
As you’ve probably seen from our blog postings, there are plenty of benefits of outsourcing accounting and tax compliance. However, we’ve also seen a lot of people come up with excuses as to why accounting outsourcing won’t work for their firm. So we thought this week we’d give you the “Best of the Best” excuses about why people haven’t gone …
