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Search complete. 7 mentions across 5 episodes found for "CPA Australia".
Sep 20, 2026
Luke KemeysGUEST
What are you talking about? But I'll give you some data, and I don't really like talking about this because I basically just isolate myself on stage talking about it, that we over index in terms of ageing business owners in New Zealand.
Luke KemeysGUEST
So across Asia Pacific, of 11 countries that CPA Australia regularly survey every year, I think it's 68% of business owners are over the age of 50.
Luke KemeysGUEST
And that is way higher than the other countries.
Luke KemeysGUEST
Now, we have less younger people running these businesses as well.
Michael StutchburyHOST
it's a thing worth keeping in mind especially when because these are big companies tens of billions of revenue and they might have billions of profit and it sounds like huge profits but it's a small sliver look Jim it's been great to talk to you about this and particularly and I will end on this if we could just because it's been we've been chatting before this a bit of reminiscence of we first caught up almost a decade ago when I was at the Financial Review and you were a renegade accountant.
Michael StutchburyHOST
And we both had our eyes set on the CPA Australia, Certified Practicing Accountants, and a character who ran it called Alex Malley.
Michael StutchburyHOST
And we sort of, who was using it, I suppose you'd say, for what we'd charge of his financial
Brett StevensonGUEST
More for his personal interests.
Brett StevensonGUEST
We had to do a lot to expose it and to actually move them on.
Brett StevensonGUEST
But it was successful in the end.
Brett StevensonGUEST
We were able to move them on and hopefully CPA Australia is a better organisation as a result.
Brett StevensonGUEST
But it was a very, we were dealing with some pretty colourful characters, if I can
Michael StutchburyHOST
it's a thing worth keeping in mind especially when because these are big companies tens of billions of revenue and they might have billions of profit and it sounds like huge profits but it's a small sliver look Jim it's been great to talk to you about this and particularly and I will end on this if we could just because it's been we've been chatting before this a bit of reminiscence of we first caught up almost a decade ago when I was at the Financial Review and you were a renegade accountant.
Michael StutchburyHOST
And we both had our eyes set on the CPA Australia, Certified Practicing Accountants, and a character who ran it called Alex Malley.
Michael StutchburyHOST
And we sort of, who was using it, I suppose you'd say, for what we'd charge of his financial
Brett StevensonGUEST
More for his personal interests.
Brett StevensonGUEST
We had to do a lot to expose it and to actually move them on.
Brett StevensonGUEST
But it was successful in the end.
Brett StevensonGUEST
We were able to move them on and hopefully CPA Australia is a better organisation as a result.
Brett StevensonGUEST
But it was a very, we were dealing with some pretty colourful characters, if I can
Corey GoldbyHOST
The Chalmers Chamber of Commerce says it's too inflexible because it ignores exactly why businesses use discretionary trust in the first place to handle variable income year to year Fixed distributions don't suit a business whose income swings around.
Corey GoldbyHOST
CPA Australia agrees it's an improvement, but says nothing changes for anyone who genuinely still needs to restructure.
Corey GoldbyHOST
They're still on the hook for state stamp duty, even with the three years of rollover relief of capital.
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Tony GavinHOST
A local accounting firm, they could have published some deep authoritative article about CGT and they may indeed know a lot about it.
Tony GavinHOST
The likelihood that the AI will surface that and cite them, it's almost nothing because the tax office publishes, CPA Australia publishes, you know, Chartered Counts Australia and New Zealand publishers.
Tony GavinHOST
There's a whole heap of very authoritative organisations out there that are publishing.
Tony GavinHOST
The AI trusts that.