CPA Australia

Financial planning

The FPA has partnered with three fintech providers to allow advisers provide early super advice more efficiently....

Financial planning

Industry groups create ROA template for early super access

FPA, SMSFA, CA ANZ, CPA Australia and IPA financial adviser and registered tax agent members have been provided a template record of advice for clients looking to access ...

Financial planning

Has the Govt created an advice structural imbalance?

Australian retirees who are amongst those most needing professional financial advice are at risk of missing out because of the structural imbalances occurring as a result...

Financial planning

Govt should fund review of advice regulation – CPA Australia

The Federal Government should fund a review of the tangle of regulation covering the provision of financial advice in circumstances were accountants and advisers are bein...

Financial planning

Major accounting bodies want far more than accountant’s exemption

The major accounting bodies want far more than the re-establishment of the accountant’s exemptions – they want a wholesale review of a post-Future of Financial Advice reg...

Financial planning

New push to reinstate Accountant’s Exemption

The Institute of Public Accountants has emerged at the head of a new push to reinstate the Accountants’ Exemption....

Features

Advice and accounting – convergence

Mike Taylor writes that new research conducted by Money Management has confirmed general acceptance of the convergence of accounting and advice but only on the right term...

Policy & Regulation

Give TPB more powers says CPA Australia

CPA Australia wants the Tax Practitioners Board to be given more power including the ability to impose banning orders....

Financial planning

Govt accused of retrospectively penalising non-residents

The Federal Government has been warned that its legislative changes around housing affordability will have the effect of denying non-residents the right to the Capital Ga...

Policy & Regulation

Increase funding to TPB says CPA Australia

CPA Australia has urged the Government to increase funding to the Tax Practitioners Board to enable it to better regulate new entities....

Accounting

CPA Australia blow-up cited as evidence for Corporations Act amendments

A Senate inquiry has been told that access to CPA Australia members’ e-mail addresses may have more quickly brought events to a head within the big accounting organisatio...