Yesterday
Slow ASX is an insult to traders
Readers’ letters on tardy trade times for investors; outdated management styles at Qantas; Peter Dutton and the ABC; non-uni pathways to accounting; and AUKUS decisions.
This Month
Chartered Accountants demands changes to revised tax agent rules
The accounting body fears that proposed laws to rein in rogue tax agents would erode “the relationship between a taxpayer and their agent”.
- Edmund Tadros
September
Cettire gets auditor’s tick of approval, adding $247m to valuation
A month after the online luxury retailer delivered unaudited accounts, worrying investors, Grant Thornton have signed off, sending the share price surging.
- Updated
- Jonathan Shapiro, Joshua Peach and Carrie LaFrenz
The most powerful people in the consulting sector in 2024
As the fallout from the PwC scandal still looms large, smaller operations are moving in on the big four’s turf.
- Edmund Tadros
PwC banned from China for six months and fined record $92m
Chinese authorities imposed a huge fine on PwC and suspended the accounting firm from operating over failures in auditing the collapse of real estate giant Evergrande.
- Trista Xinyi Luo
Degree-free accountants risk undermining profession, unis warn
A proposal to let school-leavers with no degree become chartered accountants risks tarnishing the profession’s reputation, warn leading accounting professors.
- Euan Black
Deal struck on laws to rein in rogue tax agents
The government and accounting industry have agreed to new wording for laws to rein in rogue tax agents to quell industry fears they would have to disclose mental health information to clients.
- Edmund Tadros
Uni asks students to pitch accounting in 60 seconds
UNSW Business School is offering $10,000 in prizemoney for students who create the most compelling 60-second social media pitches about doing an accounting degree.
- Edmund Tadros
Labor shift over crackdown on tax agents
The new stance was announced after a meeting between Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones and a coalition of 10 professional associations.
- Edmund Tadros
How to get a white-collar job without a degree
University enrolments are declining as more high-school leavers like Tony Nguyen skip campus and head straight to the workforce.
- Euan Black
- Exclusive
- Jobs
Shake-up means you can become a chartered accountant without a degree
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand is addressing the sector’s labour shortages by making it easier for people without a degree to become accountants.
- Euan Black
PwC UK to track workers’ locations in office attendance crackdown
The big four firm will send British employees their monthly working location data as it toughens up on its hybrid working policy.
- Chris Price, Alex Singleton and Lucy Burton
August
Tax agents won’t have to disclose mental health help: government
The government has again denied claims tax agents would have to disclose private mental health information to clients, and is open to tweaking the new laws.
- Edmund Tadros and Tom McIlroy
McGorry ‘taken out of context’ by CA ANZ chief van Onselen
Patrick McGorry says he was taken out of context in an opinion article by Chartered Accountants ANZ chief executive Ainslie van Onselen about proposed new laws to rein in rogue tax agents.
- Updated
- Edmund Tadros and Myriam Robin
The Mail and the accountants: a Peter van Onselen story
Most would run a mile from this sort of thing. But that’s never been Peter van Onselen’s style.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
People think our job is boring: accountants lament image problem
Almost half of surveyed accountants and bookkeepers believe their industry has an image problem, and most say the sector is seen as boring.
- Edmund Tadros
New PwC chief economist’s top tips for business leaders
Managing costs and increasing productivity are even more important while inflation is high and it’s difficult to find the right staff, Amy Lomas says.
- Edmund Tadros
Private equity circles Grant Thornton’s UK business
Carlyle, Blackstone, Permira, CVC Capital Partners and Bridgepoint are among buyout firms that could result in a $2.9 billion valuation for the business.
- Simon Foy, Alexandra Heal, Ivan Levingston and Stephen Foley
New rules will stop tax agents seeking mental health help: CA ANZ
The claims about new laws designed to rein in rogue tax agents were denied by the government and the chairman of the tax regulator.
- Edmund Tadros
- Opinion
- Opinion
Tax agent code shouldn’t invade right to mental health privacy
These new obligations will disincentivise seeking mental health treatment and cause fear that a diagnosis could trigger disclosure rules and hurt business.
- Ainslie van Onselen