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Nov 2018

top 10 best practice

The Ten best practices for Accounting firms working with Offshore Outsourcing firms.

By: Odyssey Outsourcing
Tags: Accounting Firms, best practices, Labour hire, offshore outsourcing

Outsourcing is not a new way of working, and outsourcing to Australian accounting firms is now approaching 20 years. Certainly a mature offering for those firms like Odyssey that were the first movers (the pioneers) in this space. However, it’s acknowledged that with demand far outstripping supply in this area, there has recently arisen “labour hire” firms, with low barriers …

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Nov 2018

Practice management series 2

Evaluating the Potential risks of Outsourcing your Australian Accounting, Taxation and Bookkeeping Compliance

By: Odyssey Outsourcing
Tags: australian accounting, offshore, Outsourcing potential risk

In the first part of this series, we discussed the benefits of outsourcing accounting, taxation and bookkeeping compliance to an offshore provider. Understanding the risks associated with the outsourcing is as important as evaluating the benefit. Outsourcing has 3 key success factors / risks: Quality, timeliness, price. Generic business risks are generally well understood and relate to a large extent to these key …

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Nov 2018

outsourced workers outperform

“Outsourced Offshore” versus “Labour hire Offshore” – Two different tribes

By: Odyssey Outsourcing
Tags: Labour hire, Offshore Experts, Outsourced offshore

There are a now dozens of new entrants into the Offshore “Labour hire” market, and the more mature “Labour hire” firms overseas are expanding their reach by re-badging or re-naming themselves as “Credible Outsourcing Experts”. Yes, many of these labour hire firms have the opportunity to push themselves into the market as “Credible offshore experts”, but if they aren’t taking …