Running a school is a complex process and relies on relationships with many stakeholders, service providers and the community. It is inevitable that disputes will arise, but the key to resolution lies in being prepared. This session provides a guide for schools on how to prepare for a dispute and steps to take to achieve resolution, including:
Rarely is Division 7A out of the tax practitioner’s news. Either its tentacles are spreading wider than first thought, or the complexities of the Division are resulting in arrangements falling foul of the ATO. This session explores the issues encountered in practice, including:
The May 2024 reforms promised a new era of stronger governance for body corporates — from towing obstructive vehicles to regulating smoking, controlling pets, and enforcing by-laws directly against subsidiary owners. Yet the reality has proven more complex. While the powers look sweeping on paper, their practical enforcement has raised legal, procedural, and cultural challenges for committees, lot owners, and their lawyers.
Rarely is Division 7A out of the tax practitioner’s news. Either its tentacles are spreading wider than first thought, or the complexities of the Division are resulting in arrangements falling foul of the ATO. This session explores the issues encountered in practice, including:
Residency and central management and control are fundamental concepts in Australian tax. However, there are complexities to the application of residency, particularly to trusts, which are not well understood. This session provides an update on the principles relating to residence and central management and control in relation to companies and explores the complexities of residence in relation to trusts.
Featuring: Mark Molesworth, BDO (Qld), Brisbane
[26.21 minutes] [0.43 CPD hours]
The adverse action provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009, can and have been used by poorly performing employees to challenge the performance management processes of their employers. In this program, Ben Dudley, from Seyfarth Shaw Australia in Sydney, through recent case law, looks at the nature and extent of the threat to performance management processes posed by the adverse action provisions, and the steps employers can be take to bullet proof their processes.
Featuring: Ben Dudley, Seyfarth Shaw Australia, Sydney
[35 minutes] [0.58 CPD hours]
Many accountants and financial advisers who work with self-managed super fund clients find that their clients seek advice in relation to the management and operation of their SMSFs. This session looks at the risks that can arise for SMSF advisers by reference to real life case studies, and how these risks can be managed in practice.
Featuring: Kieran Hoare, Merthyr Law, Brisbane
[27.15 minutes] [0.45 CPD hours]
Significant reforms to NSW strata laws fundamentally transformed how strata schemes operate. This practical session focuses on how the reforms are actually operating on the ground, where schemes and advisers are getting caught out, and what property lawyers need to watch for when advising clients in 2026. It covers:
We understand the reality of electronic conveyancing. How much have we understood the essential risk management imperatives that go with it? This session looks at the key issues, including:
Professional conduct obligations and electronic conveyancing
Practical risk issues in identification of the client – preventing identity fraud
Dealing with discharge of mortgage and email hacking
Risks with electronic documents and electronic signatures
Conflicts of interest can take varying forms, including not only actual conflicts, but situations that may become conflicting, as well as situations that others may perceive to be a conflict of interest. The obligation the accountant in practice has, is to manage and minimize such conflict. This session is designed to assist with achieving that objective, including: