Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, as they have for the last 30 years, but it seems these days that being an entrepreneur has replaced people’s dreams of being a rock star, or was it an astronaut… While not everyone deliberately goes out in life to become the owner of an Australian compliance accounting firm, you end up where you …
The 3 Important Tips to Make Outsourcing a Success
From the past years, we’ve identified 3 tips important to make outsourcing a success: Tip 1. Select a large Outsourcing services provider who has plenty of experience in the marketplace, and plenty of resources to allow you to expand. Whilst the newer comers into the Outsourcing space might seem attractive, the lower cost usually comes at a price. The lack of a …
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 …
6 Good Reasons to outsource your Australian Compliance work to an expert
Outsourcing (and not offshore labour hire) can bring many benefits to your business. It’s critical that business owners remain alert and agile to ever present changing market conditions. Outsourcing now is a business norm, and yet there are still a few Australian accountants not yet fully into Outsourcing. With change an ever constant, especially not only as we’ve recently seen …
The top 3 focal points for Australian accounting firms in the current COVID environment
The coronavirus pandemic continues to impact Australian accounting firms at several levels including technology adaptation, staffing issues, customer issues, online training, and scammers adopting to a new scams in a Covid reduced travel world. Working from anywhere has opened up Australian accounting outsourcing to overseas destinations, making this more relevant than ever before! If your firm is using work from …
Australian Accounting Firms: How to effectively Outsource your SMSF work
Need to know the who, what, when, where and why of outsourcing your compliance work. But first, here’s the maths behind the argument that full time SMSF compliance workers don’t work, either locally or foreign hired. Australian accounting firm owners know that tax returns arrive in individual jobs, and at the same time the resources needed to be hired to …
Australian jobs being rationalised by the big corporates: Is this Market efficiency in action?
A lot of airlines can’t be really said to be in the airline business at the moment, and they are certainly rationalising their workforce to get through these troubled times. Recently one of the major Australian airlines made the news as they axed another 2,400 jobs by outsourcing all of its ground handling work at Australian airports. The airline in …
Roadmap for end of compliance: First the BAS, then SMSF, then the remaining tax returns
Bookkeeping BAS’s fully automated A couple of years ago we forecast that bookkeepers and other BAS related compliance areas would be impacted by the automation in bookkeeping, and that in our opinion there would shortly be a BAS button that the SME owner could press to lodge the BAS, thereby removing this valuable revenue stream for bookkeepers/accountants. At the same …
The big upheaval: Australian accounting Compliance moves to the country
Regional housing markets are experiencing growth due to movement from the cities to the regional areas. The impacts of “working from home” arrangements are going to be massive. Not only is commercial and retail space in the CBD’s going to be severely affected, the flow on to supporting services will also be affected. Instead of 20 coffee shops per km …
Rolling the dice with offshore labour. What if they don’t work out after 2 years
We were recently contacted by an Australian accounting firm that had gone down the low cost approach of hiring an offshore employee, then letting her go after 2 years training. At the time she was considering Odyssey versus a number of other providers, the big issue in her mind was to save costs, and hire one person that could do …
