Business and Advisory

• Insolvency
• Small Business

New Zealand liquidations are on the rise. This is how to spot the warning signs in a troubled SME.

• Small Business

How accountants can grow their businesses

• Professional standards

Independence and objectivity key to the accountant’s brand. Here’s how to maintain your integrity.

• Small Business

Australian SMEs are struggling with technology compared with their Asia Pacific counterparts.

• Practice management
• Public practice

CPA Australia’s Professional Standards Scheme needs rigid compliance. Here’s why.

• Small Business

Here’s why favourable cyber security results reveal New Zealand SMEs need to lift their technology game.

• Financial planning

The low bar for sophisticated investors is proving risky, but there’s a fix in the Corporations Act.

• Public practice

Accountants have had a busy year. Here are the regulatory changes that may shape 2024.

• Public practice

NZ accountants have had a busy year. Here are the regulatory changes that may shape 2024.

• Practice management

With accounting staff thin on the ground, outsourcing or offshoring may be viable HR options

• Environment and Sustainability

In the near future SMEs may need to calculate their carbon footprint. Here’s how to help

• Small Business

Here’s how monitoring the early signs of financial distress can help save a client from insolvency

• Small Business

Survey reveals the trends shaping accounting practices

• Small Business
• Technology

A CPA Australia survey reveals where small business needs support. Here’s how accountants can help.

• Disaster recovery

Accountants can play a key role in helping SMEs plan how or whether to reopen

• Economy

With lenders increasingly cautious, cash flow control may be a major option for your clients

• Business management

Taking on debt or equity is viable but the cause of cash flow problems needs identifying

• Governance and risk

A spate of high-profile data breaches reveal how vital it is to take reasonable care

• Governance and risk

Company directors have until November to register for the new ID

• Business advisory

Here’s why ESG should be added to your business strategy

• Insolvency

Current statistics paint a rosy picture for SMEs, but are institutions just kicking the can down the road?

• Business finance

Here’s how to respond to requests from clients for capacity to repay certificates

• Budget

Along with targeted Covid-19 support, there’s a case for helping SMEs access business advice

• Business finance

Be careful helping clients with payment gateways, it may constitute financial product advice

• Technology
• Public practice

You may already have the software you need to build your advisory business

• Governance and risk
• Public practice

Government initiatives towards technology neutrality laws continue

• Practice management
• Public practice

Three CPAs with buoyant advisory businesses reveal their pricing methodologies

• Ethics
• Professional standards

As these legal cases show, investment and financial advice are just some of the areas that can trip practitioners up

• Public practice

Financial advisers are subject to a code of professional conduct. What exemptions apply for accountants?

• Taxation
• Public practice

Efforts to help with housing affordability are laudable, but these tax initiatives may not be the answer

• Audit
• Public practice

COVID-19 has stopped auditors coming into New Zealand, the regulator is offering respite

• Ethics
• Practice management

Due diligence is key when taking on new clients. Here’s the recommended client onboarding process.

• Small Business

The SME appetite for credit has increased in the wake of COVID-19. Here’s what lenders want in return.

• COVID 19
• Small Business

The best advice is to scrutinise policies and document all COVID-19 activity

• Insolvency

Here’s a lowdown of restructuring options for vulnerable SME clients

• Disaster recovery

Pactitioners’ efforts in 2020 helped many SME clients. Here’s a look at what 2021 forecasts

• Business finance
• Business advisory

Professional advisers could offer a host of advice to consumers and small businesses if the Australian Government and regulators listen to the needs of clients

• Business advisory

2020 changed the way many practitioners service clients, with business advisory central to the new mix

• Business advisory

Out of adversity comes knowledge. What has been learnt during this tumultuous year?

• Small Business
• Business advisory

Federal Court decision sets precedent for casual employee work entitlements

• Business finance

Two practitioners talk about how they are advising clients in financial difficulty

• Business finance
• Economy

For many SMEs, a valuation will be a prelude to post-COVID-19 survival measures

• Business finance
• COVID 19

Two practitioners share how they and their clients are going about business

• COVID 19
• Business finance

Fiscal year-end, lockdown and COVID-19 support packages is just the tip of the iceberg

• Business advisory

A return to normalcy makes for an ideal segue into delicate wind-up discussions

• Insolvency
• COVID 19

Despite efforts to help struggling companies, there is no “get out of jail free” card

• Business finance

Some strategies for SMEs to engage more effectively with banks and lending institutions

• COVID 19

There are growing calls for more help to rescue what was once a thriving industry

• COVID 19
• Audit

Help is at hand for trust account audits and examinations during lockdown

• COVID 19
• Practice management

CPAs share what the government’s relief package for business offers clients

• COVID 19
• Business advisory

Learn how to take care when guiding businesses through challenging circumstances

• COVID 19
• Accounting systems and processes

While we maintain our social distance, clients need to know their practitioner is right by them

• Economy
• Business law

The commercial rent relief scheme still has significant issues. Here’s what we know.

• Professional standards

Not only does it strengthen your relations with clients, it’s also a risk management tool

• Business finance

Practitioners are placing themselves at serious risk, CPA Australia warns

• Mental health

A new resource for business advisers helps guide talks with clients about their mental wellbeing

• Business finance

Many SMEs face a credit crunch, but two initiatives aim to help them and their financial advisers

• Business advisory

Here are some things accountants should keep in mind with divorce and business ownership

• Public practice
• Taxation

See why engagement letters are key requirements of CPA Australia’s quality review process

• Business management

Due diligence is essential. Before a client buys into a franchise model, advisers play a key role