accountants

Financial planning

Count negotiates further platform fee reductions

Count adds new firms to its network while delivering on platform fee reductions, a shorter SOA and new fee disclosure arrangements....

Financial planning

TASA debate reaches its crescendo

Although it seems to have been going on forever, the saga of financial planners and the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (TASA) seems to be finally reaching a crescendo. ...

Long-term oversight on SMSF advice says ASIC

ASIC’s SMSF Taskforce has reviewed 100 investor files relating to the establishment of SMSFs in an effort to improve the quality of advice given to investors, it said. ...

Financial planning

TASA and financial planners - the search for facts and common sense

The recent flurry of opinions around making financial planners accountable to the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) only continues to fuel more flawed arguments that are not ...

Policy & Regulation

Too many loose ends as FOFA deadline looms

AFA chief executive, Brad Fox says advice firms are being placed under pressure by the continuing regulatory unknowns around FOFA....

Financial planning

TPB releases adviser education requirements

Financial planners wishing to keep providing advice in areas such as superannuation after 1 July will have to complete a course approved by the Taxation Practitioners Boa...

Financial planning

Delay TASA implementation until after election, says FPA

The FPA argues that transitional issues and other factors justify delaying implementation of the Tax Agent Services Act until post-election. ...

Accounting

IPA creates upgraded BAS Agent designation

IPA upgrades its bookkeper designation to take account of BAS agents and the Tax Practitioner Board....

Editorial

Return to common sense plan at APESB

There would have been many in the Australian accounting community who last week breathed a sigh of relief when they read the documents to be dealt with by the APESB at it...

Accounting

Amended APES 230 standard passed

The APESB has agreed on the amended version of the controversial APES230 standard. ...

Accounting

Accountant banned for six years

ASIC has handed a NSW-based accountant a six-year ban from providing financial services following an investigation....

Financial planning

Securities dealer scales down operations following ASIC review

A securities dealer has volunteered to wind back its operations after an ASIC review found the company had breached conditions of its Australian financial services licenc...