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 …
Quality Australian Tax compliance outsourcing: the shift to review
Australian outsourced tax preparation outsourcing services can help public accounting firms of all sizes. Regardless of size of the Australian accounting firm, a quality outsourced services provider will return high quality work, in an exceptional format, in a timely manner. Today we have a quick look at one area many accounting firms struggle to control: preparing and reviewing quality compliance …
Is it time to Free your mind, and your staff … from Australian accounting and tax compliance work?
Australian outsourced tax preparation outsourcing services can help public accounting firms of all sizes. Particularly, outsourcing allows smaller practices to compete with the same quality as larger firms that have invested more heavily in training/systems/procedures. While both outsourcing and offshoring offer lower costs, outsourcing provides significant more benefits. Outsourcing allows firms to offer more interesting and varied and challenging work …
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 …
The future of Australian Tax Compliance… Why Gen Y find it hard to engage
With Automation likely to impact compliance in the near future, and offshoring impacting compliance now, this week we look at Gen Y’s engagement with the future of compliance. There has been plenty of discussion about offshoring and automation affecting compliance, and particularly where the new “Middle Managers” will be found in 3-5 years if graduates aren’t being engaged and recruited …
Why bringing your outsourced work back inhouse often isn’t seamless…
An ex client of Odyssey reached out to me last week, and wrote the following: Dear David, It has been some time since I have made contact. I was wondering if we could touch base. We used Odyssey for the majority for SMSF clients in the 2016 year, approximately 40-50 funds. Most of these were handled by our senior accountant …
Forecasting the future of Australian Compliance
Nassim Taleb was credited with the black swan theory and indicated that the black swan event depends on the observer. So in respect of the turkey and the butcher, the outcome is the same, but the event is not a black swan event to the butcher. The object then is not to become the turkey. A turkey is fed for 1,000 …
Is a black swan event just around the corner for Australian compliance?
With Mother’s Day just past there has been some interesting online discussion about the commoditisation of the florist industry. There are many similarities to the “Commoditisation of Compliance”. We are all familiar with Airbnb, Uber and the other connectors in the industry, and their margins are well known. Airbnb offers a more unique product while Uber offers a transport which …
Australian Accountants have big problems: Disruption hits hard in professional services.
We live in interesting times, but there is no denying disruption over the past 20 years since the internet and email burst onto the scene. Uber, Airbnb and Xero have been around for over a decade, and yet at the same time we still have rampant use of desktop bookkeeping and accounting software here in Australia. A little over a …
How accountants will survive automation
Remaining relevant suddenly takes on a sense of urgency with recent automation releases. It’s pretty obvious by now that clients aren’t going to pay for someone to regurgitate the tax code, when they have access to the same tax code online. Firms building their own compliance teams offshore are headed in the wrong direction. The push should be into automation, …
