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In this special episode of Beyond the Numbers with Grant Thornton, Private Enterprise Partner Beau Chaperon hosts the show and sits down with Lea Hicks and Richard Fox to discuss resilience, leadership and the relationships that help individuals and organisations navigate change and achieve lasting success for Western Sydney.
Legacy is often associated with the athletes, infrastructure and moments that capture public attention. Yet the foundations of a lasting legacy are built well before the event begins and continue long after it ends.
Australian tax incentive assisting Early Stage Innovation Companies (ESICs) attract funding
The Australian higher education sector has been going through a period of rapid change. This includes new technologies, changes to student demographics and the way that people prefer to learn changes to what employers are looking for from graduates, and changes to the way that universities are funded (just to name a few).
The Queensland Government has revealed its intentions to expand the application of mandatory PBAs, and proposed timeframes for the roll-out of Project Bank Accounts (PBAs).
The establishment of the National Bushfire Recovery Agency has been announced, together with an initial $2 billion allocation to the National Bushfire Recovery Fund that will support all recovery efforts across Australia over the next 2 years.
Summary of 2008-2019 Local technical and financial reporting alerts
2019 has been an interesting and challenging year for businesses, both large and small. As well as grappling with a weakening economy and an unsettled global trading environment, one consistent theme that stands out in Australia is an increased focus on employment tax compliance, with a raft of law changes, audit activity and landmark cases.
Started in 1968, Special Olympics is a world-wide movement and the largest sporting organisation for people with intellectual disabilities.
All organisations are grappling with the myriad of employee agreements and obligations that result in a wide variety of payments to their people.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) recently published its plans to significantly scale up its efforts to raise the standards of governance, culture, remuneration and accountability (GCRA) across financial institutions.
Corporate governance has been a hot topic of discussion in Australia for many years – spearheaded by Royal Commissions, drilled home by corporate law changes to charge company directors with more responsibilities, and demanded by consumers and shareholders holding companies to a higher standard of behaviour and transparency.
We recently hosted a number of clients in our Melbourne office, where we assembled a panel of experts to unpack some of the challenges of workforce planning in the retail sector.
In a world where a company’s tax payments (or lack thereof) are under increasing scrutiny, both the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and the Australian Accounting Standard Board are now enforcing new reporting obligations that will see companies disclose their “uncertain” tax positions in their annual tax returns and financial statements.
