Browsing: Accountants

Many people will be embarking on new opportunities as the summer draws to a close, and as Sage’s latest cohort of graduates gets started, I want to say a big congratulations to everyone beginning their accounting or bookkeeping career this year.

Dext has published research on workload and staffing pressures facing accountants and bookkeepers in Australia. The survey covered more than 400 practitioners nationwide.

NSW Financial Crimes Squad charges an accounting firm director and two money mules amid wider action against rising tide of mortgage fraud

Tenet plans to launch its AI-powered BKeeper portal ahead of Ignite 2026, targeting bookkeepers and their SME clients.

The arrests of Gauteng businessman Mpho Malema, seven Emfuleni employees and Janitha van Reenen Coetzee in separate cases are linked to allegations of corruption first brought to light by slain whistleblower Martha Mani Rantsofu.

Zamp, a sales tax compliance platform positioning itself as the operating system for sales tax, has raised a total of $30m to accelerate the development of its platform and expand its accounting firm partnerships.

Management accountants stand at a crossroads. The landscape of business is rapidly changing, driven by the explosion of data and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Business intelligence and analytics (BI&A) offers transformative potential. For management accountants, it’s an opportunity to enhance their role as trusted strategic partners, using new approaches to improve decision-making across the business.…

A lot of accountants jumped into AI excited by the number of hours they could save. But it turns out that doesn’t matter nearly as much as what you do with that extra time and added capacity.

High-profile AI hallucination incidents underscore the importance of meticulous AI oversight for all practices, from international megafirms to sole proprietors working from home. 

OUR PROFESSION has spent this decade moving clients up the value chain. Compliance became advisory, advisory became fractional CFO work, and each year the pitch got more ambitious. Underneath all of it sits an assumption that the client’s financial infrastructure can carry the weight of the advice. This year we tested that assumption on ourselves.…