News Articles for Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand

The disciplinary tribunal for chartered accountants has imposed the maximum possible fine on PwC and applied new reporting requirements as fallout from the tax advice scandal continues.

Accountants who breach professional standards could be hit with fines five times bigger than before under a new proposed disciplinary framework from Australia's industry body.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Tom Plant, Patrick Gorman, Brendan Bate, Brett Woods, Alan Stuart-Grant, Brett Darley, David Banks and Sarina Claassens.

Saracen Mineral Holdings managing director Raleigh Finlayson has received the top honour at Business News' 2018 40under40 awards, named First Amongst Equals ahead of a diverse field of Western Australia's young business and community leaders.

WA continues to experience falls in available jobs for engineers, prompting many to take up chartered qualifications.

Sandalwood producer TFS Corporation has appointed Gooding Partners founder Dalton Gooding as an independent non-executive director, effective immediately.

Tax compliance costs hit all businesses, from small operators to big miners, and need to be addressed.

David Gilchrist has been appointed as the 2014 chair of WA regional council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Professional associations in WA have recorded significant growth in membership over the past five years.

Brian Martin has been appointed as business development manager WA of financial services group Perpetual Private, replacing Grace Letizia who has gone on maternity leave.

Small businesses are paying twice as much money and spending four times as many hours as they did 17 years ago in order to comply with Australia's tax regulations, new research says.

REAL estate veteran Paul Conti has a goal that is shared by people working in many industries – he wants to elevate the standing of his profession.