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The Royal Commission into the aged care industry will look at the quality of care provided to frail aged people and people living with disabilities in residential and home aged care.

Grant Thornton is pleased to congratulate the shareholders of AudioXtra Pty Ltd (AudioXtra), a leading specialist mobile and car electronics manufacturer, wholesaler and distributor, on their sale to the Japanese listed automotive wholesaler and retailer, AUTOBACS SEVEN Co. Ltd. (AB7).

The Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) Congress in Adelaide last week could not have better timed following the announcement in October of the Royal Commission into aged care quality and safety.

Disruption is happening, organisations need to harness change to influence its direction. This was the crux of an engaging session we hosted with AGSM’s Melbourne Alumni this week on the business of transformation.

The 25 September Facebook data breach, suspected to have impacted around 90m user accounts is a wakeup call for social media users and the technology sector.

Every year, we spend time interviewing our clients to better understand their business and the trends most impacting on them.

A number of colleagues – David Chau, Bei Bei Han, Judy Jin – and I were recently in China’s Tea Capital, Hangzhou, with partners from all around our international network to talk about trends in business globally, but also the huge opportunities we’re seeing coming out of China.

Every year, we spend time interviewing our clients to better understand their business and the trends most impacting on them.

We regularly speak with clients about their future growth and ambitions for their business. We focus on their challenges, issues and opportunities associated with their industry, their company’s achievements and highlights, and plans for future expansion and growth.

Arakawa, our own Japanese Practice Leader, and Louise Willdridge from GTI. What many people might not know is that the merger between Grant Thornton Japan and Yusei Audit Co. and Yamada & partners Certified Public Tax Accountants' Co. in July this year, means that the Japanese partnership greatly mirrors our Australian partnership – similar size and similar offerings across audit, tax and advisory.

Mid-size businesses in Australia tend to be overlooked – they aren’t so big that they generate their own gravitational pull, and aren’t so small that a blip in the economy could result in closed doors.

In a recent article published by Grant Thornton US, it was cited that an estimated 43% of the US workforce (being 60 million people) will be contingent workers by 2020 and Australia shows no sign of diverging from this trend.