I did not think I will be writing an article about the implications for finance professionals about the Australian Federal Government’s draft ‘Religious Discrimination Bill’ which was released for comment on August 29, 2019. But Religious Discrimination and Financial Hardship: A Minefield for Sponsors Like Qantas […]
Optimism amongst Australia’s CFOs has fallen again, amid concerns about both global and local economic conditions. According to the latest edition of Deloitte’s biannual CFO Sentiment survey, and covering the first half of 2019: Net optimism CFO Sentiment: optimism continues to wane as global uncertainty hits home […]
The High Court confirmed that the ATO may use information obtained from data leaks, even if leaked from a law firm. Second Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn said today’s decision in Glencore International v. Commissioner of Taxation means the High Court confirms ATO can use information from data leaks […]
Understanding how people can recover following career burnout may be just as difficult as unravelling the root cause, according to new research. It’s said that human beings require three things to be truly happy in Burnout: the advent of the modern brain drain? […]
Sometimes you may get what you wished for, but it could turn out to be a can of worms! In my CEO message a year ago, in August 2018, in an article titled “Silence of Auditors to the Slaughter: Why Audit Opinions are ‘Untrue’ and ‘Unfair’ […]
PwC Australia has released a balanced scorecard on audit quality, the first for an Australian firm, including the firm’s individual ASIC audit inspection results along with other key measures of audit quality such as internal PwC releases Australia’s first balanced scorecard on audit quality […]
Nestled within one of the half-dozen boxes of Apollo budget documents at NASA’s historical reference collection in Washington, DC, is a piece of paper outlining a “loose agenda”—sadly undated[1] —for a meeting intriguingly titled Apollo Cost A new accounting for Apollo: how much did it really cost? […]