Outsourcing your Australian compliance work to overseas is an important undertaking. If done properly, it can greatly improve the way you do accounting business and give you a more competitive advantage. With the time, money, and resources you will invest, you need to ensure that you get your money’s worth. Let’s quick go through the checklist below to choose the …
What to look for in a dodgy “fly by night” outsourcing provider
Like everyone else, despite the fact we’re an outsourcing provider, our email inboxes are frequently filled with outsourcing providers offering their services. There are some great checklists online, but like virus and phishing spam, there are some quick “eye ball” checks you can do on an email arriving from a purported outsourcing provider. Here are our top 10 things you …
Australian accounting firms: Firing clients the right way
We’ve all seen the silos of different client types: Type A – clients you love working with and are highly profitable, the kind of clients you’d go on holiday with.. Type B – clients you like working with and are profitable Type C – clients that are ok and you make some profit Type D – clients that cost you …
Australian tax compliance: Do 12 hour working days do anything more than blunt the edge?
There was a large accounting firm interviewing one of their junior partners the other day, and we were struck by the antique nature of the partner business model. Do your time, work hard, work up the ladder, and make it to partner. The female junior partner had taken 15 years to make it to partner level. “Fast Track”. As the …
Remote workers: Pulling the plug and impacts on profitability
We’ve previously touched on risks that offshore labour services providers like to gloss over when selling their “cheap and cheerful” full time labour resources. These risks include pushing the foreign exchange risk back onto the Australian accountant, wherein paying for the actual salary of a full time worker in foreign currency leaves the Australian accounting firm exposed to detrimental movements …
Forex Risks: It’s time for Australian accounting firms with offshore labour resources to look at the fine print
The Australian dollar is diving down. Australian SME’s need to not only manage supply chains in a difficult time, but also manage the foreign exchange issues. Since the beginning of 2020, many offshore markets such as Vietnam, India and Philippines are observing a big down in foreign exchange rate with Australian dollar. For example, Philippine peso has gone down from …
The Coronavirus challenge: Forget the historical Compliance work, now is the time for Australian accounting firms to be working real-time with their SME clients to support and ensure their survival…!
The world has been scrambling to deal with the outbreak of Coronavirus. Governments are limiting travel and imposing quarantines to curb the spread of the Virus. Conferences and meetings are being cancelled. Key supply chains around the world are disrupted. Many businesses are struggling, releasing staff, or just shuttering their doors. Accounting firms are operating in a difficult environment with …
Key Criteria in Choosing a Right Australian Accounting Outsourcing Partner for your firm: Part 1 of 2 – Maximize Your Cost Efficiency
During the festive season, many Australian accounting firms will close and thus not work on their compliance jobs. In order to reduce the burden of deadlines after the holiday, Australian accounting firms can choose a better solution: outsourcing. Indeed, most of outsourcing firms in Asia countries like Vietnam still process work during the Christmas and New Year season. However, it …
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 …
True cost of outsourcing to the Philippines
If you have considered engaging offshore labourers, you have probably wondered about the real cost savings your practice can make. Offshore labour firms like to push percentages of savings, comparing expensive Australian workers and cheaper offshore labourers, citing 50%, 60%, 70% savings! Over here at Odyssey, we thought we’d run through what our clients have been telling us about some …
