This session will focus on providing an insight into the changing Business and Agribusiness landscape, outlining what impact this will have on the professional service firms servicing the sector.
• The changing capital landscape
• Tackling business transition and succession
• Determining the most appropriate means to fund business expansion
• Exploring the opportunities for Accounting firms to “add value” to business and agribusiness clients

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  David Charge

  Managing Partner – Central NSW at Sprout Agribusiness
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  George Last

  Partner at Sprout Agribusiness

We are entering into a ‘hard market’ for Professional Indemnity insurance for accounting professionals. This presentation will cover what to expect, who is more vulnerable, and what you can do in terms of risk management.

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  Karen McDonald

  Associate Director – Professional Risk of Accountancy Insurance

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  Tim Hunt

  Manager - RaboResearch at Rabobank

COVID-19 saw a massive swing towards flexible working arrangements during 2020 leading to large numbers of people working from home for the first time. Hot on the heels of this trend were the hackers and criminal organizations seeking to benefit from newly uncovered security holes and naive IT users who were not prepared.
This session will provide attendees with a broad overview of the current threats facing Australian businesses. It will also highlight some of the “must-have” defensive tactics to keep your data & business safe.

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  Aron Robertson

  Director - Business Development of Strategic Group

Hot topic discussions with key sponsors - pick a topic of interest:
1. Strategic Group - 'Unified Communications: Driving Productivity and Collaboration' - Live Demo + Q&A with Adam
2. Accountancy Insurance - 'ATO Claim Trends & Risk Management for Accounting Professionals' - Q&A with Rod & Karen
3. Rabobank - ' The journey to become a Trusted Advisor' - with the Rabobank Staff

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  Adam Fairless

  GM –Telecommunications at Strategic Group
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  Karen McDonald

  Associate Director – Professional Risk of Accountancy Insurance
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  Rod Spicer

  Associate Director - Claims and Underwriting of Accountancy Insurance

Difficult conversations are unavoidable in management, teams and relationships. In fact, any time you’re dealing with other people, issues will inevitably come up. Unfortunately, many of us tend to procrastinate and avoid having these conversations. But unless you raise the issue, the other party may not know this is a problem (in psychology this is called implied approval). And unless you’re able to discuss and come to a resolution, you can’t move on and will carry residual negative feelings towards the other person. When I was a clinician, I discovered that couples don’t have a lot of arguments, they have the same arguments a lot of times (because they were never resolved).

So how do you prepare for these discussions? What should you say? What should you not say? This session will show you how to plan your approach, find the right mindset, listen, empathise and understand the other person, but most importantly how get your point across in a respectful way that motivates the other party towards a mutually beneficial outcome. This session will help you to address underperformance, deal with staff conflict and confidently navigate difficult situations.

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  Scott Henderson

  Director & CEO of BSI Learning Institute

Accounting firms are talking with clients more now than ever due to the Coronavirus implications. While having more conversations with clients is what you ultimately want, so you can build your relationship with the client, and potentially fill some of their needs with services you offer - yet how do you do that? How do you have these conversations which are outside of your comfort zone or different to tax structures, minimising tax legally and ensuring their technology is compliant and easier for them/you to use and access?
Trent will share some critical tips, processes and methods to help you approach these conversations from a place that not only builds YOUR confidence, yet also the confidence of your clients in you to help them navigate these tricky times.

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  Trent Taylor

  CEO & Founder of Teach it Forward

Members are entered into prize draw when they check in with sponsors during trade sessions using the My Glue app