Accounting issues
Series
Tax Time 2024
4 episodes of expert tax-time tips for accountants and finance and business professionals
- Taxation
Series·5 EpisodesLast published onCrime By Numbers
Enter the shadowy world of financial fraud and deconstruct criminal cases with the experts
- Forensic accounting
Series·5 EpisodesLast published onTax Time 2022
Tax time dive deeps into work-related expenses, investing, side hustles and more
- Taxation
Series·5 EpisodesLast published on
Episodes
2024
Explore the new IFRS 18 and its impact on company reporting
What you need to know about the benefits and challenges of this new reporting standard
- Financial reporting
- Accounting updates
30 min listening timePublished onThe Board of Taxation explained
Explore what the Board of Taxation does, who it represents, its focus areas and more
- Taxation
31 min listening timePublished onEthics and financial reporting: is there a connection?
New research links ethics with financial reporting quality. But what about grey areas?
- Ethics
- Financial reporting
12 min listening timePublished onNew tax changes for NFPs: what you need to know
Discover why around 150,000 NFPs will soon need to lodge a tax return and how it will work
- Taxation
- Not for profit
18 min listening timePublished onNeed help troubleshooting the ATO’s CAL?
Your client-to-agent linking explainer for businesses and tax agents
- Accounting updates
15 min listening timePublished onSMSF compliance: the latest changes explained
Specialist insights for SMSF reporting season and the latest superannuation changes
- Superannuation
15 min listening timePublished onIESBA’s new strategy: what you need to know
Learn more about IESBA’s vision and how it will shape accountants’ future ethical conduct
- Ethics
- Accounting updates
18 min listening timePublished onAccountant's guide to anti-money laundering reforms
Learn why Australian policymakers may soon enforce anti-money laundering measures for accountants
- Policy perspectives
13 min listening timePublished onHow CPA Australia is reducing red tape for business
Learn how CPA Australia is successfully helping minimise red tape for business
- Financial reporting
20 min listening timePublished onFederal Budget 2024: CPA Australia’s expert analysis
Expert budget insights to help guide accountants, business and finance professionals
- Budget
- Economy
25 min listening timePublished onSuperannuation in 2024: what you need to know
Stay informed with CPA Australia’s expert insights on policy and regulatory changes
- Superannuation
17 min listening timePublished onCan tax reform solve Australia's urgent economic issues?
Learn how strategic tax reforms could prove key in addressing Australia's future economic challenges
- Taxation
10 min listening timePublished onNavigating the perils of cognitive bias in accounting
Cognitive bias can be helpful but in accounting where errors are disastrous, the risks are clear
- Career skills
5 min listening timePublished onExpert analysis of new changes to climate reporting
What accountants, finance professionals and businesses need to know in 2024
- Accounting updates
17 min listening timePublished onExploring National Reconciliation Week
CPA Australia leaders discuss how we can achieve reconciliation together
- Business strategy
32 min listening timePublished onTax time 2024: what you need to know
A 2024 guide for Australian accountants and finance and business professionals
- Taxation
17 min listening timePublished onHow you can avoid the scams
Cyber security tips to stay ahead of potential threats at tax time
- Taxation
13 min listening timePublished onWhat work-related expenses can you claim?
Your deductions guide: what you can and cannot claim for work expenses in your tax return
- Taxation
16 min listening timePublished onAn expert guide to Division 7A
Discover how Div 7A works and how to avoid the pitfalls of this integrity measure at tax time
- Taxation
20 min listening timePublished on
2023
Generative AI: what accountants need to know in 2023
Explore the pros and cons of AI tools for accountants with expert insights
- Technology
20 min listening timePublished onWhy legislate an objective for Australia’s super system?
CPA Australia’s view on the planned objective, what it should include and why
- Superannuation
16 min listening timePublished onDissecting the insolvency crisis in the construction sector
What Australia’s home buyers, tradespeople and industry employees need to know
- Economy
17 min listening timePublished onAustralia's major tax changes in 2023: an expert guide
Dissecting this year’s major court and government tax rulings
- Taxation
13 min listening timePublished onUnlocking the potential of carbon accounting
How accountants, business and finance professionals can play a pivotal role
- Accounting updates
21 min listening timePublished onWhat you need to know about ISSB's new reporting standards
IFRS S1 and S2: explore their impact on business, finance and accounting professionals
- Financial reporting
- Business management
15 min listening timePublished onWarning: the ATO rule that could plunder your super
What is the ATO’s 45 per cent penalty tax on your superannuation and why it needs amending
- Superannuation
16 min listening timePublished onThe philanthropy challenge: can giving be doubled by 2030?
Expert analysis of Australia’s Productivity Commission’s review into philanthropy
- Philanthropy
20 min listening timePublished onJobKeeper: Assessing the business support
CPA Australia evaluates the A$88.9 billion stimulus package for Australian businesses
- Small Business
- Business strategy
20 min listening timePublished onIs Australia’s insolvency regime on the right track?
The Chair of the government report into corporate insolvency joins us to discuss the issue
- Insolvency
16 min listening timePublished onThe ATO explains changes to working from home deductions
The ATO Assistant Commissioner outlines WFH deduction revisions and what they mean for you
- Taxation
19 min listening timePublished onHow new online economy tax changes could affect you
New gig economy earnings and reporting obligations explained
- Taxation
- Economy
20 min listening timePublished onAuditor Proud: Keeping up with changing expectations in audit
Learn how the audit profession keeps up with an increasing list of demands
- Audit
17 min listening timePublished onYour guide to super’s proposed changes
What the draft government policies on superannuation may mean for your retirement nest egg
- Superannuation
17 min listening timePublished onWhat to do when the ATO contacts you
What you need to know as the deadline for submitting your tax return approaches
- Taxation
14 min listening timePublished onWhat the Quality of Advice Review means for you
Good financial advice is critical. Right? Our experts dissect the 22 recommendations.
- Accounting updates
- Financial planning
14 min listening timePublished onHow the experts expose financial statement fraud
Unlock insights into financial statement fraud and discover how experts expose crimes
- Forensic accounting
- Financial reporting
25 min listening timePublished onRomance scams: The price of fake love
Romance scams break hearts and bank accounts. Experts reveal how to unveil a fake relationship
- Forensic accounting
22 min listening timePublished onPonzi schemes exposed: from Bernie Madoff to Melissa Caddick
Forensic experts expose notorious Ponzi schemes, from Bernie Madoff to Melissa Caddick
- Forensic accounting
27 min listening timePublished onMan in the middle attacks: unravelling million-dollar invoice frauds
Cyber and anti-scam specialists dissect invoice fraud and how to end man in the middle attacks
- Forensic accounting
22 min listening timePublished on
2022
FBT-free EVS: Is it time to switch
Learn the rules around FBT exemption for electric vehicles
- Taxation
- Accounting updates
14 min listening timePublished onWhy does Australia need tax reform?
Hear our experts explain why we need to tax electrical vehicles
- Taxation law
- Accounting updates
17 min listening timePublished onWhy accountants’ letters are risky business
Accountants’ letters: the risks explained
- Accounting updates
- Public practice
17 min listening timePublished onBehind closed doors at the OECD Tax Forum
What was discussed at this invite-only global tax event, attended by CPA Australia
- Taxation
16 min listening timePublished onStay on top of your records for Tax Time 2022
- Taxation
- Accounting updates
19 min listening timePublished onWhat ISSB standards could mean for sustainability reporting
A look at what these recommendations could mean for your sustainability reporting
- Professional standards
- Accounting updates
21 min listening timePublished onSuperannuation: A tsunami of changes coming in 2022
Find out what the 2022 changes mean for business and accountants
- Superannuation
- Accounting updates
19 min listening timePublished onShould tax time be delayed?
With the ATO pointing to errors in high numbers of returns in July, we discuss a solution
- Taxation
- Public practice
16 min listening timePublished onHow accountants can support your drought strategy
Advice to help safeguard your business from a drought
- Disaster recovery
- Business management
20 min listening timePublished onUnderstanding decentralised finance
Find out what DeFi is and how it impacts the finance industry
- Digital transformation
43 min listening timePublished onThe ATO explains Operation Protego
How this ATO-led operation responded swiftly to attempted GST fraud on a significant scale
- Forensic accounting
- Accounting updates
21 min listening timePublished onWhat's the way forward for digital financial reporting?
- Financial reporting
- Digital transformation
- Accounting updates
27 min listening timePublished onDo’s and don’ts of work-related expenses
Understand what you can and can't do with WRE
- Taxation
17 min listening timePublished onInvestments and your tax returns
The ATO reveals the problem spots and where investors are getting it wrong
- Taxation
17 min listening timePublished onMultiple jobs, side hustles and your tax return
The ATO walks us through the trouble areas and describes when WREs can and can’t be claimed
- Taxation
14 min listening timePublished onWork-related expenses for tradies
How employees in the trades should think about deductions
- Taxation
16 min listening timePublished on
2021
What to expect when the ATO opens a transfer pricing review
Learn how COVID-19 is having an impact
- Taxation
- Policy perspectives
36 min listening timePublished onHow to improve audit quality
Key findings from the report
- Audit
58 min listening timePublished onReviewing charities’ financial information
The latest regulatory and financial reporting developments
- Financial reporting
37 min listening timePublished onCloud technology for audit explained
Learn how the technology has evolved
- Technology
38 min listening timePublished on
2020
COVID-19 is accelerating central bank digital currency projects
Is cash on its way out?
- Digital transformation
- COVID 19
49 min listening timePublished onProfessional indemnity insurance claims: cyber risk
Join our experts as they share real-life claims
- Public practice
- Technology
39 min listening timePublished onMaking IFRIC agenda decisions mandatory
What you need to know
- Professional standards
22 min listening timePublished onThe IAASB on international auditing
Listen in as the IAASB Chair talks about standards
- Audit
- Professional standards
46 min listening timePublished onNew Zealand audit quality monitoring report: a discussion
Join our experts as they uncover the latest in audit
- Audit
29 min listening timePublished onCOVID-19 tax tips for public practitioners
Practical tax tips to make tax time easier
- COVID 19
- Taxation
27 min listening timePublished onTax time 2020: implications for rental property investors
Join our experts as they talk about COVID tax consequences
- Taxation
34 min listening timePublished onProfessional indemnity insurance claims
What public practitioners need to know about PII
- Public practice
31 min listening timePublished onPractical tips for creating a cybersafe environment
Straightforward advice for improving your company’s cybersecurity
- Technology
36 min listening timePublished onWhat readers want to know from annual reports
Hear about the latest research on annual reports
- Financial reporting
32 min listening timePublished onSMSF auditors: independence and code of ethics
Join our experts as they discuss key impacts on SMSF
- Audit
- Superannuation
35 min listening timePublished onFive ways technology is changing accounting skills
Learn how accounting firms are embracing change
- Technology
- Personal and career development
42 min listening timePublished onThe big issues facing public practitioners during COVID-19
How to keep up when the goalposts keep changing
- COVID 19
56 min listening timePublished onATO’s SMSF auditor 2019 compliance program findings
Uncover the ATO’s 2020 focus areas
- Audit
- Superannuation
37 min listening timePublished onHow to prepare for ATO compliance activity
Tips for engaging with the Taxation Office
- Taxation
30 min listening timePublished onASIC’s approach to regulation during COVID-19
- COVID 19
- Financial reporting
27 min listening timePublished on
2019
David Murray FCPA on financial advice and leadership
Understanding challenges during transformation
- Governance and risk
- Business management
27 min listening timePublished onKey audit inspection findings for 2019
Join our experts as they discuss the latest findings
- Audit
30 min listening timePublished onRegulatory Burden Report: Impact of complex regulatory frameworks
A look at how public practitioners and their clients are impacted
- Public practice
29 min listening timePublished onCharities and not-for-profits update
What the ACNC is doing to assist charities
- Not for profit
35 min listening timePublished onRobotic process automation in the workplace
A look at practical applications for RPA
- Technology
- Digital transformation
39 min listening timePublished onClimate-related risk disclosures
Understanding the potential impacts to the economy
- Economy
38 min listening timePublished on
2018
Developing a better financial reporting framework for Australia
See why SPFS might be on their way out
- Financial reporting
- Accounting theory
29 min listening timePublished onATO spotlight on work-related expenses
Here’s what accountants need to know
- Taxation
46 min listening timePublished onThe end of accounting: Are financial statements still relevant?
Emerging technologies challenge the relevance of accounting and financial reporting
- Financial reporting
39 min listening timePublished onA simpler and better financial reporting framework
Listen as the AASB outlines the way forward
- Financial reporting
29 min listening timePublished onAre financial statements still useful?
Join our experts as they discuss highlights of a recent study
- Financial reporting
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