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You know the line. “When we were young, life was simple.” Yes, it was simple but not because life was some magical stress free wonderland. It was simple because we had less. Less income, less responsibility and less expectation. Earn a wage, pay the rent, spend on travel, movies or eating out and save whatever…

The victory of good over evil has been told and retold since time began. Mythology, movies and scriptures all echo the same promise of good defeating evil. But in today’s world, it doesn’t feel that way. Scroll the headlines and you will think evil is winning on every front. Be it corruption, scams, wars fought…

Sometimes I wonder what I would do with all my free time if I answered client questions the way people ask them: short, blunt and stripped of all logic. You’d get the truth but you wouldn’t like it. Here’s how that would sound: And this is exactly why I do not stick to short answers….

Life would be better for both us and our clients if nobody ever fell behind on tax, got audited or got stuck with compliance headaches. But people do fall behind, audits do happen and problems do blow up. We wish you never needed these services but unfortunately you do. And when you do, the work…

“Don’t know what kind of poverty this is… Not dying of hunger but not rich enough for luxury” That meme or hilarious versions of it does the rounds on social media and it feels like it was written for the Medicare Levy Surcharge. You finally start earning a bit more and you think you are…

Imagine being asked to predict the next 30 years of someone’s life on a letterhead or with a signature. That is exactly the request that come in to me as an accountant. “Can you do an accountants letter or sign a declaration to confirm a client’s ability to repay the loan? AKA: Can you take…

Every year accountants pull out the compliance toolkits of minutes, resolutions, declarations, consents and all other variations of the paperwork that keep regulators happy. Here is where it gets absurd. Documents prepared by Person A, addressed to Person A and officially signed by Person A. And once you notice it, you see it everywhere. Companies,…

You know how it goes. You make a sale on eBay. The payment hits your account. You print the label, drop the parcel at Australia Post before the cut off and that’s one more happy customer ticked off the list. Job done. In August 2025, Australia Post shut down U.S. parcel deliveries and small businesses…

If karma sounds like a spiritual side hustle to you, then you don’t realise it runs a tighter ledger than any accountant ever. Karma in business is simply actions meeting consequences. Cut corners and it comes back with interest. Do right and it quietly compounds in your favour until one day you realise you have…