As 2025 draws to a close, we’d like to thank you for your continued trust and support. This final newsletter for the year includes festive wishes, important business updates, and practical reminders to help you start 2026 on the front foot.
In This Edition:
- Christmas Wishes
- Our New Website Is Live!
- Password Security – Please Take This Seriously
- Farewell to Gemma
- Accounting System Tips (Please Read!)
- The ATO Has Its Cranky Pants On
- QuickBooks Online Bank Feeds – Be Careful
Christmas Wishes
As the year winds down, we want to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a safe, relaxing festive season. We hope you enjoy some well-earned downtime and return refreshed and ready for the opportunities of 2026.
Our New Website Is Live!
We’re excited to share that our new website cascadeat.com.au was launched in July 2025
What’s new?
- A bright, modern design that reflects our growing national client base
- A new general email address: hello@cascadeat.com.au
- An inbuilt blog for timely insights and updates: https://cascadeat.
com.au/blog/ - A client self-booking centre for appointments: https://
cascadeat.com.au/clients - A “Pay My Invoice” button on our Contact page for easy credit card payments
- Updated content to meet Tax Agent Services Board (TASA) legislative requirements, including examples of the new engagement letters now required
We are also transitioning to our shorter domain name: cascadeat.com.au
All email addresses using cascadeconsulting.com.au will continue to work for at least the next two years, so there’s no immediate action required.
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Farewell to Gemma
In September, we sadly said goodbye to Gemma, who moved on to new opportunities. We sincerely thank her for her contribution to Cascade and wish her every success in her future endeavours.
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From 1 July 2026, Pay Day Super comes into effect. This means:
- Super will no longer be paid quarterly
- Super must be paid within 5 days of paying your employees
We’ve written a detailed article explaining what this means for your business.
Read Full Blog Here
How We Are Preparing
We are currently investigating the most efficient ways to help clients stay compliant.
Australian Retirement Trust (formerly SunSuper) has established Beam, which we expect will significantly streamline compliance by integrating with:
- Xero
- Quickbooks Online
- Reckon
A Few Words From the Talent at Beam…
- Calculate, process, and submit super in one place
- Make single batch payments to all employee super funds
- Catch errors before submission with real-time error management
- Receive notifications at every stage (missing payments, underpayments, refunds)
- Make secure payments aligned with ATO obligations
- Benefit from ISO/IEC 27001:2022 accredited security compliance
More information here: https://beamconnect.com.au/
Related Reading
Using .aba files to streamline payments across banks:
Save time with uploading multiple payments to your internet banking
Accounting System Tips (Please Read!)
We’re seeing some recurring issues that can cause serious downstream problems:
Number Sequences
Avoid customising:
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Client numbers
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Invoice numbers
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Receipt numbers
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Matter numbers (especially in law firms)
Best practice is to keep these sequential, particularly when integrating with other systems.
Bank Feeds
When processing bank feeds, always MATCH transactions that already exist in the system.
We recently onboarded a new client where bank feeds were added instead of matched, duplicating a significant amount of income. This can have serious tax consequences.
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