Premium Insights and analysis Loose lips sank a ship: Regulation for tax professionals’ confidentiality December 12, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Economy & Industry It ought to be bewildering to any tax professional that somebody in Canberra has agreed it is necessary to further define confidentiality.
Accounting professionals react to tax agent regulation proposals December 12, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Economy & Industry Professional accounting bodies have hit out at the federal government’s latest proposals aimed at tightening aspects of tax agent regulation.
It’s on accounting professionals to understand what’s required of them, says PwC December 12, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Economy & Industry Climate change reporting expert Katelyn Bonato says boards and senior management must get familiar with the information that standards require.
Consultation period opens for tax-agent regulation reform December 11, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Federal Accountants, lawyers and other professionals have until 21 January 2024 to respond to a raft of changes to tax agent regulation.
Premium Insights and analysis Big agencies, big action plans — a comparison December 8, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks How do the ATO, Defence, Home Affairs, Australian Border Force and Services Australia action plans compare to one another?
Reform government procurement to give local businesses a chance, says senator December 6, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Community & Social Senator says businesses that had government grants were obstructed from accessing departments that could potentially use the new technology.
DAFF told to improve governance, policy capability December 5, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has been told to shake up its governance structures and build up its strategic policy capability.
Premium Insights and analysis Is it OK for policymakers to ignore Office of Impact Analysis guidance? December 4, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Editors' Picks Under what circumstances can elected representatives and bureaucrats ignore guidance on the analysis of regulatory impact?
Premium Insights and analysis Why is parliament’s holding of audit bodies to account reactive rather than proactive? December 1, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Economy & Industry It’s unclear who holds the Big Four to account unless you count the occasional deep dive by parliamentary committees.
Premium Insights and analysis Machiavelli, love and hate in the world of accounting and audit standard-setting November 26, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Economy & Industry Machiavelli might be more useful than all of the academics, accounting firms, legal gurus who have been bloviating on audit regulation.
Accountants deserve detail on proposed merger of oversight bodies: Taylor November 26, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Economy & Industry Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor says the coalition supports the policy of regulatory simplification and will review the proposed merger.
ABS projects national population growth to 2071 November 23, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Community & Social Pick ‘n mix the data combination that best suits your needs, says the ABS of its latest Australian population projections.
Premium Insights and analysis Transparency is essential with Chalmers’ creation of new accounting standard-setting beast November 23, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Economy & Industry Policy errors in current accounting and auditing structures make transparency essential for trusting private- and public-sector reporting.
FRC, AASB and AUASB to be merged into single government entity November 22, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Economy & Industry The proposed model will end the traditional separation of the financial reporting and auditing disciplines.
ASIC charged researchers $50,000 to access corporate reporting database November 21, 2023 By Tom Ravlic Federal A parliamentary committee has heard ASIC charged tens of thousands of dollars for AASB-commissioned researchers to obtain corporate data.
