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26/8/2014

 
Taken from the Money Smart Website

One of the reasons that people need to borrow is because they have no idea of how much there spending or where there money is going.  In todays high tech world it's rare to use actual cash to make purchases or transactions which makes it even harder to manager your spending.  The Australian Government has produced a very clever app that can be used to help you track your spending and to get an understanding of where your money goes.  Once you know where you're spending your money you can then create a budget and also start to make choices about how you'd like to spend and save your money.  The key thing here is choice.  If you don't know where you're money is going you can't make informed choices about the best way to spend your money.  There just isn't enough money to always have you want or need.

Take control of your finances and have a play with the app.  You might be amazed at what you'll all of a sudden be able to afford.

Use TrackMySpend to record the following types of expenses:
  • Your weekly household budget
  • Costs for special events like weddings or celebrations
  • Work or travel expenses
  • Coffees, lunches and any other cash expenses that you find hard to record


FeaturesTrackMySpend allows you to:
  • Nominate a spending limit (per week, fortnight, month or year) and track your progress
  • Separate 'needs' and 'wants' to identify opportunities to save
  • Create 'favourites' so you can track frequent expenses
  • View your expense history
  • Add 'tags' to categorise expenses and set spending limits for each category
  • Create expense reminders sent as text messages to your phone
  • Auto-fill expenses based on past entries


Backup and review
This app also allows you to:
  • Have free data backup to prevent data loss
  • Sync your profile and use on multiple devices
  • Export data to a CSV file (for Excel, or other financial software)


Use TrackMySpend to get a clear picture of your purchasing habits and gain control of your money.

Download the appDownload the app from the following online stores:

Appp Store

Android





Clients of collapsed broker group $11.5 million out of pocketFriday, 15 August 2014   |   James Mitchell

15/8/2014

 
Clients of collapsed financial services company Charterhill Group are unlikely to see the $11.5 million in missing investor funds.

At least four related entities of Charterhill Group entered insolvency in January.

The Adelaide-based group offered a range of services including mortgage broking, real estate marketing, property management, contract negotiation and SMSF advice.

Three of the Chaterhill companies owe creditors a combined $11.5 million but have only collected $25,000 in payments, according to their six-month presentation of accounts.

A lawyer acting on behalf of a number of Charterhill said it is “highly unlikely” that clients will receive any compensation.

“It is highly unlikely that the various insurance claims will meet the circumstances of this,” O’Loughlins Lawyers partner Kym Ryder said.

“That is almost solely and wholly by reason of the fraud by [Charterhill Group chief executive George] Nowak, and because Nowak was the director and certainly the moving mind in all of these companies, we think it is highly unlikely that a claim will be able to be met by an insurer,” Mr Ryder told Mortgage Business.

“More particularly, an insurer won’t be prepared to meet the claims,” he said.

Mr Ryder said George Nowak used SMSF marketing to lure clients into his web of fraudulent activities, under the pretence that SMSFs were safe and regulated.

“I can’t stress more highly the way he utilised the safety of SMSFs and what he stated to be the protections for SMSF trustees,” he said.

“He told them it was safe and protected, that the ATO monitors the area, and so he almost traded on the protections available in that industry at a government level.”

Mr Ryder said the case has negatively affected the SMSF industry in South Australia, where Charterhill was based.

“There are a fair few lessons to come out of this, not the least of which is the fact that there is no real regulation in this area and while the ATO will hold itself out as keeping an eye on the industry, this is a pretty clear example of something that has fallen between the cracks of the SMSF industry,” he said.

“I don’t want to paint the rest of the SMSF industry with this brush, because in many ways everything the sector seeks to do is very positive, but the danger is, like any industry, you get one bad egg and they stuff it up for everyone.

“Certainly in South Australia, that is what this Nowak character has done. He found a loophole; he preyed on people’s confidence and ran off with their money.”

ASIC is pursuing the matter and Mr Ryder is confident that Mr Nowak will be prosecuted.



What to take home from this article.  It's important that you the company you're using to procure your finance is reputable and likely to stay in business otherwise you could be in trouble.  Make sure the organisation is a member of an External Dispute Resolution Scheme, a member of a professional body and has all of their Professional Indemnity insurance up to date.  

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    Adriana Filipowski  has a Masters in Professional Accounting, is a member of CPA and the MFAA.

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