Accounting & Markets

A quarter of the country’s biggest 200 companies are now using the principles of ‘integrated reporting’ in their annual reports, with a focus on how they create longer term value rather than short-term earnings, a KPMG study shows. Australia’s Top Companies Moving Towards Integrated Reporting, KPMG Survey Shows […]

Swinburne has partnered with accounting software giant, Xero, to reshape accountancy training in Australia with the launch of a new online learning course for students.

Called the Lifelong Learning Platform, the online accounting tool is designed to help boost the financial literacy of secondary and tertiary students, as well as those looking to reskill. Xero and Swinburne Spearhead New Learning Platform […]

The revelations of the respectable rich and famous’ ‘legal’ tax arrangements contained in the Paradise Papers are hardly a surprise, but outlawing tax havens wouldn’t work, says QUT Professor Pascalis Raimondos. Professor Raimondos, head of QUT’s School Tax Havens: To Outlaw or Tackle System Reform? […]

The use of water from the huge Murray-Darling River Basin in eastern Australia remains a contentious issue after more than a decade of legal wrangling, policies and plans. But, there is a stronger consensus about Accounting for Unchartered Waters […]

The Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, and National Australia Bank are working together to build the next generation of mobile payments and wallets in Australia. The first initiative of the new joint venture will be the development NAB, CBA, and Westpac Build Next Generation of Mobile Payments and Wallets […]

Comments reported today from the Incoming Australian Securities and Investment Commission Chairman, James Shipton, saying the problem with the finance sector is that it has ‘forgotten’ who owns the money, should prompt the Government to New ASIC Chair Says Parts of Finance Sector have ‘Forgotten’ Whose Money They are Investing […]