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PKF x Assistance Dogs Australia: 11 years of backing a life‑changing cause 🐾

If you’ve ever met a Labrador who thinks they’re “just here for pats,” you’ll know they’re never just here for pats. Sometimes they’re here to change a life.For the past 11 years, PKF has proudly supported Assistance Dogs Australia (ADA), an organisation that breeds, trains and places accredited assistance dogs...

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Case Studies

Apollo Care Alliance: How PKF improved financial clarity and supported the scale-up of regional aged care through strategic advisory

In 2020, three seasoned industry veterans, Stephen Becsi, Barry Ashcroft, and John Young, founded Apollo Care Alliance. Needing a trusted adviser and auditor from the get-go, and specifically “not within the Big Four”, John put forward PKF to help navigate the unprecedented rules and regulations of a Not-For-Profit (NFP) within...

Kym Reilly

Partner

Sydney, Newcastle

Clarity Mag

PPP operators — have you considered AASB Interpretation 12?

Governments, including local governments and other public sector entities, often enter into arrangements with private sector entities, including charities, to operate and fund public services.These arrangements are commonly referred to as public private partnerships (PPPs). A common example is where, where a private sector entity (the operator), constructs and operates...

Kym Reilly

Partner

Sydney, Newcastle

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Enhanced disclosure requirements for charities

A charity registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC) is required to prepare either general purpose financial statements (GPFS) or special purpose financial statements (SPFS). The reforms that were effective from 1 July 2021 that saw the end of SPFS for many for-profit private sector entities did not...

Kym Reilly

Partner

Sydney, Newcastle

Insights

The difference between equity and equality

Quite often, the terms ‘equity’ and ‘equality’ are used interchangeably, however there are subtle yet important differences that are useful to understand as we – as individuals and as organisations – seek to attract and retain talented people, and advance as employers of choice. The Cambridge Dictionary defines equity as...

Kym Reilly

Partner

Sydney, Newcastle

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Insights from the education sector

Education providers are complex organisations, faced with unprecedented challenges by an array of stakeholders, including students, staff, parents, governments (often several layers), community members and the media. It seems everyone has an opinion on the best way to educate our population, both young and old. Across PKF Australia and New...