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 …
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 …
Why Offshoring Australian compliance is no panacea for Accounting firms with poor systems and processes
Offshoring not always profitable Offshoring work overseas (labour hire of offshore staff) frequently misses the practice efficiencies that Accounting firm owners are looking for. In the absence of having the right systems in places to take advantage of an offshore labour force, the back-office tasks performed offshore don’t necessarily have a positive effect on profitability, despite a lower labour cost. …
Australian tax and accounting compliance Outsourcing forecast to increase 75% from 2020 to 2022
Commbank released their June 2020 marketing pulse recently. Most interestingly Australian tax and accounting compliance Outsourcing forecast to increase 75% from 2020 to 2022. As a direct result of their coronavirus experience, 21% of firms responded that they would increase their use of contractors and outsourcing. Many firms had invested in cloud technology and made the transition to working from …
Australian Accounting Firms: Do you tell your clients about the value they receive from your Outsourcing Partner?
While outsourcing bookkeeping, accounting, and compliance jobs has become a common trend for Australian accounting firms, there’s always a different reason for which you are outsourcing. Maybe you’re short on in-house resources, maybe you don’t have enough staff for some rush periods, and you could need outsourcing to catch your deadlines. You could also be outsourcing if you want to …
Guidelines to qualify BPO service providers for Australian Accounting firms
There is no doubt that outsourcing has become the mainstream for Australian accounting firms to achieve high performance and productivity for their services at lower costs. Searching for a qualified outsourcing partners for your accounting business requires a big effort. Let us show you a quick start guide of what to look at when selecting BPO service providers. How long …
Gen Z Accountants: What are the challenges for Australian employers in accounting industry?
The entering of Gen Z into the workforce is changing the way the world turns, and that means Australian accounting firms and employers in the accounting industry are putting their focus on this young generation to recruit and retain top talent. However, Australian accounting firms may face many challenges in recruiting and training Gen Z accountants. Attracting and recruiting accounting …
Automation in Australian Accounting: Risks or Opportunities?
Automation has been threatening thousands to millions of jobs with obsolescence, and accounting jobs are supposedly at the top of list. Indeed, there is no surprise here that accounting automation truly makes productivity improvements in Australian compliance services. Accounting software that automate processes have taken over many back-office functions in accounting services. Hence; Australian accounting firms who were charging their …
Commoditisation in Australian Outsourcing Accounting Services: Only the Strongest Systems Can Survive
Whether you’ve joined the movement or not, it’s no doubt that the Australian tax and accounting industry keeps moving into more automation. As a result, there are surely big box accounting services providers that have “commoditised” their basic set of services such as bookkeeping, superannuation and taxes. Small and large businesses can find these services from a variety of providers. …
