This week we thought we’d share an email that came from a client last week. It’s pretty easy to summarise: Have been using Odyssey for SMSF and larger compliance jobs Hired an offshore staff from the Philippines, but they moved on (in under a year) after being trained Wants a flexible offering, including compliance work and bookkeeping Doesn’t have enough …
Australian Tax Compliance offshore: Cracks in the offshore full time labour model
Australian accountants are looking to a 6-12 month business slowdown, and possibly longer, and are starting to cut fixed costs. Those fixed costs which can easily be released are the offshore full time labour force, which usually require 1-3 months notification to let the staff be returned to the offshore labour firm. Those firms will still need resources for ad-hoc …
Accountants advised on outsourcing quality problems
Mitchell Turner released an article on Accountants Daily, explaining that there can be inconsistency issues and wavering quality levels when it comes to outsourcing of operations overseas. This article might have been headed: “Problems with outsourcing”. As the article indicates, one Outsourcing provider notes the problems with controlling and managing outsourcing operations, quite possibly in reference to the recent trend …
