The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released a response paper and final reporting standards for Phase 1 of its multi-year Superannuation Data Transformation (SDT), superannuation being Australia’s term for compulsory employee pensions.
It’s all systems go once more at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), as it resumes overhauling its core financial data collection system following a nine-month pause. The new platform, APRA Connect, is now set to go live in September 2021.
Countries as distinct and distant as South Africa, the US, China, Korea, Japan, UK and the EU have embraced the digital era of financial reporting for public companies – but not Australia. What’s keeping Australia from going down the digital path?
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has proposed an update to its reporting requirements around Credit Risk Management, designed to improve APRA’s ability to monitor risk. The updated draft ARS 220.0 will collect more detailed and granular data on authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADI’s) credit exposures and provisions.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), which oversees Australia’s financial sector, is planning to align its prudential standards for insurance companies with international insurance standards.
With the UK, US, Europe, Japan and many other jurisdictions mandating XBRL-based digital reporting, is it time for Australia’s accountants to push for similar steps there?
As meetings move online, businesses scramble to offer digital services and the world gets used to working remotely, Australia and Singapore have concluded a sign-of-the-times virtual meeting by signing the Australia-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement (DEA). The DEA is designed to reduce barriers to and increase the benefits of digital trade and the digital economy. It […]
As part of a package of recommendations for improving audit trust, the Australian Parliament’s Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has recommended mandating machine-readable digital financial reporting.
In September we let you know about the projected A$1.2 billion in savings from Standard Business Reporting in Australia. Now the Australian Taxation Office Annual Report is out, confirming that amount, which is 50% greater than the original business case projections. That result certainly makes a compelling case for SBR, which has also been put to […]
The Australian Taxation Office is projecting total savings in 2015-2016 from SBR to be a staggering A$1.1 billion.
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