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Small Firm, Big Impact
‘Small Firm, Big Impact’ is the podcast small and medium sized practices need right now. The latest series is full of factual and practical content from experts, giving chartered accountants, the up-to-date information they need to do their jobs. Each episode Chartered Accountants ANZ Public Affairs...
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S5E7: CA ANZ’s Professional Standards Scheme – your questions
In March, 2025 the new CA ANZ Professional Standards Scheme was approved by the Professional Standards Council. CA ANZ has provided a scheme for Austr...
S5E6: Insights from the 2025 New Zealand Budget
The New Zealand Government has unveiled Budget 2025, which includes an ‘Investment Boost' to accelerate depreciation, significant changes to KiwiSaver...
S5E5: Audit Innovation: tech-driven opportunities for smaller firms
In this episode, host Gillian Bowen explores the cutting-edge advancements transforming the audit profession. Joined by Steven Watson FCA, Managing Di...
S5E4: Tax System Challenges: Insights from the Tax Ombudsman
Small Firm, Big Impact Host Gillian Bowen catches up* with Ruth Owen, the Inspector-General of Taxation and Taxation Ombudsman, about crucial updates...
S5E3: Federal Budget 2025-2026: Insights for CAs
The Treasurer handed down his fourth Federal Budget on March 25, 2025, and his last before the Australian election.
CA ANZ experts were in the B...
S5E2: Sustainability opportunities for your firm and clients
If you’re a smaller practice, you may be wondering about the implications of mandatory sustainability assurance on your firm and your clients, and wha...
S5E1: Hear how the new President plans to represent members
Grant Ellis FCA is the CA ANZ President for 2025 and he sat down with Small Firm, Big Impact host Gillian Bowen, to share insights into his storied ca...
S4E13: Tinashe Kamangira reflects on his year as CA ANZ’s President
At the end of his year as CA ANZ’s 2024 President, Tinashe Kamangira FCA returns to Small Firm, Big Impact to reflect on his conversations with member...
S4E12: Financial abuse in the tax system and how to recognise the signs
As a tax professional – do you know how to recognise the signs of the tax system being used for financial abuse? Experts in this area believe tax prof...
S4E11: Impacts of reforms to the Australian anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regime
A Bill has been introduced into the Australian parliament to reform the Australian anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regime. This...
S4E10: The benefits of your employees doing the CA Program
In this episode, hear directly from two employers on why they get their employees to do the CA Program over other offerings, and how it benefits your...
S4E9: The CA ANZ complaints process
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) is the professional body for chartered accountants and one part of its role is to investigate...
S4E8: Is running an accounting practice right for you?
How do you make the big decision to go out on your own, to run an accounting business? To help members decide if it’s the right move for them, Charter...
S4E7: What the Federal Budget means for members
The Federal Budget has been handed down, so what’s the impact for Chartered Accountants? There is little in the way of substantive tax reform but ther...
S4E6: What's next for ethics and the profession?
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) has hosted a delegation from the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA)...
S4E5: Cost of tax debt to soar
Do any of your business clients owe money to the Australian Tax Office? There is more than $50B of collectable tax debt to collect. 65% relates to sma...
S4E4: GenAI for SMPs (Part 2)
Want to save 30 minutes a day, and your team too, right now using GenAI? The next 26 minutes is so action-packed with straightforward, real-world prac...
S4E3: GenAI for SMPs (Part 1)
It’s time to check-in on the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence (AI) and learn how it’s impacting workplaces in 2024. Kayur Patel is a Fello...
S4E2: Payday matters
The results are in – and it’s CA ANZ’s ‘early-career’ members who are more likely to receive the highest percentage pay increase compared to their mor...
S4E1: Meet your 2024 CA ANZ President
Tinashe Kamangira FCA, the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand President for 2024, is making small and medium sized practices one of his f...
S3E21: Improving ATO Service
Members regularly get in contact with the CA ANZ Tax Team for support on addressing issues with the Australian Tax office. Many are frustrated with de...
S3E20: The future of trust
Global Ethics Day is an opportunity to pause and reflect on the importance of ethics in the daily work of accountants and its role in maintaining publ...
S3E19: Balancing your mental health in the workplace
Note: A heads up for our listeners, the following episode discusses mental health. If this raises any issues for you, please reach out. The contact nu...
S3E18: How to get help with ethical dilemmas
Facing a complex ethical dilemma is a challenge and there’s no need to do it alone. The CA Advisory Group (CAAG) offers members free and confidential...
S3E17: Sustainability reporting – what SMPs need to know
Climate-related disclosures, the impact on businesses and the role of accountants is front of mind right now. The International Sustainability Standar...
S3E16: Reach your full potential
Do you spend much time thinking about your potential or the potential of your business? What about how to REACH your full potential?
Learn about...
S3E15: Professional Conduct Framework Review
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) has released the Professional Conduct Framework Review Final Report, an Independent Review of...
S3E14: Public Practice Program Revamp
The Public Practice Program (PPP) prepares practitioners for future success as a partner or sole practitioner. It’s designed to empower new practition...
S3E12: NZ Budget Breakdown
It’s been labelled a ‘No Frill’s budget’ by a ‘Bread and Butter’ Government – but what's actually in the 2023 New Zealand Budget?
Hear from CA A...
S3E13: How the 2023 Federal Budget (AU) impacts you
Now the dust has settled on the Federal Budget (AU) – this episode takes Australian members through the impacts on them and their clients.
Senio...
S3E11: Accounting and generative A.I.
There’s a lot of buzz around generative A.I. and the impacts it’ll have on workplaces. There are lots of arguments for and against for using it – wher...
S3E10: Finding space for professional development
What do you think about professional development? Is it something you look forward to as an opportunity to gain new skills or is it more a requirement...
S3E9: Why acting early to restructure can save your client's small business
Small Business Restructuring is where a chartered accountant, their client and a registered liquidator work together to deal with the debts of the sma...
S3E8: How to find balance in your firm
Ponder this: "The only people who get upset when you set boundaries are the ones who benefited from you having none."
How’s it feeling in your o...
S3E7: FEE-HELP - opening the CA ANZ talent door
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand has been approved as a higher education FEE-HELP provider. It’s a game changer and a big win for the f...
S3E6: Listen Up! Transform your Listening Skills for Workplace Success
Let’s be frank. We can listen better. That can be difficult when we’re genetically coded to be distracted and the world is full of notifications. If w...
S3E5: Auditing and Reporting Changes in 2023
It’s shaping up to be another big year when it comes to accounting standards and auditing changes. This episode of Small Firm, Big Impact with Amir Gh...
S3E4: Accountant's Financing Letters
Have you been asked by your client to provide an accountant’s letter to a financier to help them secure a new loan or mortgage? Are you unsure how you...
S3E3: Remuneration and the fight for talent
There are more accounting jobs than ever and the fight for talent is on. The 2022 Member Remuneration survey provides critical insights for accountant...
S3E2: Cybersecurity for SMPs
Are you an SMP lying awake at night wondering if there’s a cyber-criminal already in your digital systems waiting to pounce? Do you have enough cyber-...