Aggressive tax avoidance and short-term financial decisions are often the consequence of powerfully self-interested CEOs and their empire-building managers. Greed is not good. While the Oliver Stone movie Wall Street coined the phrase to the contrary, […] Empire-building corporate leaders and their toxic companions […]
A marked slowdown in global economic growth is now anticipated through 2023. Europe and the United Kingdom are likely already in or very close to recession, while a recession in the United States (US) now Global risks become reality […]
SAP launched new research revealing that businesses in Australia are increasingly seeing financial benefits from sustainability, but an inability to accurately measure their impact on the environment could hinder progress. The global Environmental Sustainability Study* Sustainability is driving profitability and competitiveness in Australia, though access to data is stifling progress […]
The meaninglessness of modern work – and the pandemic – has led many to question their approach to their jobs. What does this mean for management accountants? KEY TAKEAWAYS The term “quiet ‘Quiet Quitting’: The Silent Challenge of Performance Management […]
After a lull of two years due to Covid, the Institute of Certified Management Accountants (Australia & New Zealand) celebrated the induction of two outstanding champions into its Global Accounting and Management Accounting Hall of Rod Sims, Don Rankin and Simon Griffiths inducted into the ICMA Global Accounting and Management Accounting Hall of Fame. […]
Rodney Graham “Rod” Sims AO the former chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), Australia’s competition regulator gives a inciteful, educative and often humorous talk of his experiences as the longest serving ACCC Prof Rod Sims on the “Reminisces of a Competition Regulator” […]
Don Rankin talks of his long career in management accounting and business advisory services; from early days growing up in country New South Wales to being a partner at KPMG and then a founding Partner Don Rankin on “Professional Advice and Business Start-Ups” […]