Canteen—Charity of the Month Recipient for August 2020 Canteen is our Charity of the Month Recipient for August 2020. It is a great charity who help young people cope with cancer in their family. Through CanTeen, they learn to explore and deal with their feelings about cancer, connect with other young people in the same…
JobKeeper 2.0 Legislation—Passed JobKeeper 2.0 legislation has now been passed by the Senate on Tuesday, with minor amendments and extending the governments wage subsidy program by six months to 28 March 2021. This will replace the $1,500 a fortnight payment with a new two-tier payment rate from 28 September 2020. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has highlighted that eligibility…
Innovation in Accounting and Business Planning – Event Highlights Thank you to everyone for tuning in, participating and asking insightful questions to our panel experts, Andrew Hirst, Xero Territory Sales Manager; Leon Stephan, Advivo Managing Partner; Dale Edwards, Advivo Partner and Chris Morris, Advivo Partner, at our second Lunch & Learn online event ‘Innovation in…
Increased eligibility for JobKeeper payments. For the second time in a fortnight, the Federal Government has announced further updates to the JobKeeper wage subsidy, to ensure businesses can continue to retain their employees under the economic impacts of COVID-19. The changes to eligibility criteria have a significant impact for all businesses and we encourage you…
Discussing the 4 Key Phases of the Coronavirus Business Cycle In part 1 of this series, I identified these phases and briefly discussed what we’ve seen throughout phase 1, along with some of the reasons for the various reactions and flow-on effects for business. I also discussed the importance of understanding the characteristics of…
Protecting Australians and the Economy From the Effects of COVID-19 The Government has acted swiftly and decisively to address the significant impacts of COVID-19 on Australia’s health system, the economy and jobs, by providing an unprecedented level of support to assist households, keep businesses in business and keep Australians in jobs. In the Federal…
Embracing Remote Work, Digitising, and Automating Payments Amidst COVID-19 with Xero Increasingly, businesses, both large and small, are moving to operate completely online/ digitally which enables them to have greater access to information, resilience to respond, to adapt, and to innovate which is key to setting yourself apart from your competitors so your business…
How Audit Activity Is Prevalent and Can Affect You in Response to COVID-19 The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has increased their compliance lockdowns and investigations on businesses, where organisations can be selected at random, even if your filed returns are accurate. With the introduction of JobKeeper and JobSeeker, the ATO has recently announced they…
Staff Spotlight: Michael Agius Introducing Michael Agius, Advivo’s Practice Manager, as an integral part of our business. Not only does he take care of billings, process mapping and workflow, but Michael drives the vision of Advivo and keeps everything on track. Michael is a commercially minded and qualified Chartered Accountant with exposure to Audit and…
Story Dogs—Charity of the Month Recipient for July 2020 Story Dogs is our Charity of the Month Recipient for July 2020. It is a great charity who had the initiative to assist children in reaching confidence and their full potential in literacy. Don’t forget – if you would like us to include a charity of…
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