Dr. Chris D’Souza, CFO & COO (International), ICMA Australia “The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power… If you’ve got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you’ve The 7 C’s of Pricing in International Markets […]
by Salvatore Ferraro, RMIT University The board of Australia’s second-biggest bank is in for some stick at its annual general meeting today, as Westpac shareholders vent their displeasure at the scandal involving breaches of anti-money-laundering What limits shareholder activism as a force for good: the free-rider problem […]
Nestled within one of the half-dozen boxes of Apollo budget documents at NASA’s historical reference collection in Washington, DC, is a piece of paper outlining a “loose agenda”—sadly undated[1] —for a meeting intriguingly titled Apollo Cost A new accounting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? […]
My job takes me to many logistics and supply chain conferences. This week I attended the Jump Start conference. This educational conference is organized by SMC³. SMC³ provides less-than-truckload (LTL) solutions in the form of Less-Than-Truckload Industry Struggles With Pricing […]
It’s Customers, not shareholders who create long term value for a corporation. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair A spate of recent corporate scandals Corporate Myopia in the 21st Century! […]
Being a CFO is tough enough, but for those who work in the mid-tier, it’s harder still. You have all the issues that come with managing and organising the finances of a multi-million dollar business, It’s Hard Being a CFO […]
By Brett Stevenson. Lesson one of Brett’s blog post provided a brief introduction the overall principle of the individual responsibility of board members. This case study using the $4.9 million termination payment to the CEO Alex CPA Australia Governance Case Study One: CEO’s three year termination contract […]