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Class integrates with two boutiques

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
Two boutique self-managed super fund service providers have joined forces with Class Super to help scale audit and compliance services. A.S.A.P. Advice, a Tasmania-based digital advice platform that assists accountants provide SMSF services without ...

Midwinter recruits to strengthen cyber security strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... detect vulnerabilities in their current systems and provide direction in defending against potential cyber threats. A cyber audit service will test all internal IT resources and systems used across practices such as shared drives, internal emails, client ...

Pitcher Partners founder joins Contango

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... 29 years at the firm and its predecessors, is now an independent director on Contango MicroCap's board and will join the audit and risk committee. He also currently sits as a non-executive director on the board of automobile accessory manufacturer ARB ...

Insurers held to account with new FSC code

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... insurers will incur what the FSC described as 'strong sanctions'. These could consist of a formal warning, a compliance audit, written acknowledgement of a compliance breach to customers and publication of said breach on both the insurer's and the FSC's ...

Magellan adds John Eales to board

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... enlisted former rugby union player John Eales to its board. Eales will join as a non-executive director, serving on the board's audit and risk committee, and the remuneration and nominations committee. He also sits on the boards of Flight Centre, Fuji ...

KPMG names new national chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
A senior audit partner and governance specialist is being promoted as KPMG Australia's new national chair. Stepping into the role on 1 September 2017, Alison Kitchen will be KPMG Australia's first woman chair. She will also be the first woman to chair ...

SMSF auditor busted self-auditing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... information supplied by the Australian Taxation Office and determined that he had breached fundamental independence and audit requirements. Wilson was found to have breached requirements of the APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants by ...

FSU calls out NAB for lack of standards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... reoccur across the FP business," the letter reads. The letter goes on to say that formal and informal quality checks and audit processes failed to identify incorrectly witnessed forms and that there is no information about the appropriate means by which ...

Software provider upgrades ahead of super deadline

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
Accounting document software provider MyWorkpapers has released a raft of features ahead of the introduction of new superannuation regulation on 1 July. The cloud-based platform enhanced its SMSF 5.0 feature to meet the incoming legislative requirements ...

Collaboration call for SMSF auditing

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... director Ron Phipps-Ellis said the firm's role is not to compete with other SMSF auditors. "The market is large, and our SMSF audit industry is disparate," Phipps-Ellis said. "Mergers and acquisitions of SMSF audit practices aren't common, and the new ...