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CPA Australia and global positioning
Jul 01, 2008; Malley, Alex ... THERE I WAS, LIVE ON BLOOMBERG TV in Hong Kong, slotted in between Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd and the US presidential candidate Barack Obama. I tell you, there are times in this job when I have to pinch myself. Before becoming president, I really didn't appreciate how much of a global ...
Feedback
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... LETTER OF THE MONTH What's really behind offshoring? Is it cynical to imagine that accounting standards were harmonised in order to ensure the multinationals could focus on the offshoring of their accounting and finance functions? Everywhere we look there is evidence that ...
Skill shortage bites for rural and regional accountants
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... NEWS, OPINION AND MEMBER UPDATES RURAL AND REGIONAL ACCOUNTING firm services are the focus of a major research project, supported and partially funded by CPA Australia. The three-year project, jointly undertaken by the University of Melbourne, Deakin University and RMIT University, aims ...
NEWS IN BRIEF
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Join the Ivy League CPA Australia members now have access to renowned leadership programs developed by the Harvard Business School. The programs High Performance Leadership and Case in Point are professional development e-learning programs designed for emerging, middle and seniorlevel ...
Older workers last longer
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... MATURE-AGE WORKERS ARE MORE likely to stay in their jobs than younger workers, according to a survey of 3500 people by Hays Accountancy & Finance. It was found that half of all mature workers surveyed remained in the job more than four years. Of their younger counterparts only 34 per ...
Singapore rated as VAT friendly
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... SINGAPORE IS THE FOURTH MOST friendly country in which to do business from a value-added tax (VAT) perspective, according to a worldwide survey commissioned by KPMG International. The UK was nominated as the most VAT-friendly, with a net 10 per cent of the sample saying it was "easy" ....
Attack of the Storm Worm
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... IT MAY SOUND LIKE A THIRD-RATE HORROR film, but the botnets like Storm Worm are causing businesses on the internet grief. Botnets are a collective mass of infected computers - and Storm Worm is the world's largest, generating 20 per cent of all world spam, according to a provider of web security ...
INTHEBLACK on the web
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... INTHEBLACK articles have been extended beyond the printed page with video Interviews from selected features. Readers will have the chance to discover indepth information about the article topics via interviews with ...
New constitution and by-laws
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A NEW CONSTITUTION WAS APPROVED AT CPA Australia's annual general meeting on 28 April. New by-laws have also been approved and are effective from 1 May 2008. The changes cover a range or areas including the ...
In the headlines
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A SELECTION OF CPA AUSTRALIA'S MEDIA MENTIONS Budget comments draw international response CPA Australia president Alex Malley was quoted in various media in response to the Rudd government's first Budget. His comments featured in Australian radio, print and online media. Malley ...
Excel Yourself
Jul 01, 2008; Blackwood, Neale ... NEALE BLACKWOOD CREATES A FORMULA TO HANDLE INSERTED ROWS Q: I use cumulative balance columns which add the figure to the left of the cell to the value In the row above the cell. When I Insert a row I have to copy the formula from the row above to the new row and to the row below for the ...
CPA Australia 12th Asian Regional Conference - Kuala Lumpur
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Find out more about the changing business environment at the CPA Australia 12th Asian Regional Conference, "Changing landscapes: be in the forefront". Taking place on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 August in Kuala Lumpur, the conference will look at thought leadership and ...
Webwatch
Jul 01, 2008; Bajraszewski, Richard ... RICHARD BAJRASZEWSKI FROM THE CPA AUSTRALIA LIBRARY GETS WIKI WITH IT Wikisource's sister projects Most INTHEBLACK readers would be familiar with Wikipedla, the online encyclopedia that makes use of usergenerated content. Wlkipedia now has an enormous number of entries covering ...
The Job: Group treasury strategist
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... PETER PONTIKIS FCPA TRAVELS FROM MEETING ROOMS TO TENTS, ADVISING REGIONAL SUNCORP CLIENTS ON RISK Q: What does your job involve? I advise Suncorp clients about the risks and opportunities in the financial markets - principally interest rates and foreign exchange from the point of view ...
Paid leave a matter for tax reform, says CPA Australia
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... MANDATORY PAID PARENTAL LEAVE SHOULD BE publicly funded from government revenue, says CPA Australia's submission to the Productivity Review inquiry into paid maternity, paternity and parental leave. The submission says the leave should be funded by way of a transfer payment rather than ...
Cyber spies on the loose
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... THE HEAD OF AUSTRALIA'S intelligence agency, ASIO, has called on businesses to assess their cyber security as nations and individuals increasingly target the private sector in a bid to gain sensitive Information. Paul O'Sulllvan, ASIO's director-general, recently told a business lunch in ...
the buzz
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... SCUPPlE The yuppie died out with the end of the "greed is good" 1980s. Enter the Scuppie, a "socially conscious upwardly mobile person" ....
Advocacy update
Jul 01, 2008; Rankin, Geoff ... CPA AUSTRALIA CEO GEOFF RANKIN FCPA REPORTS ON ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT ON BEHALF OF MEMBERS Dinner with the Australian treasurer During his visit to Beijing in June, Australian treasurer Wayne Swan MP attended a dinner with representatives from CPA Australia and the Chinese ...
The Navigator
Jul 01, 2008; Blondell, Jackie ... On 4 January this year CPA John Allen received an unexpected call. It was the landlord of the country pub that Allen owned. The lessee explained that he was bankrupt and had to close down. "My first thought was, 'Oh my God, I've got to run the pub'," he recalls. Allen, manager financial strategy ...
Inventors
Jul 01, 2008; Ross, Emily ... INVENTORS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF CREATIVE, PRACTICAL THINKING, SO WHY NOT HARNESS THEIR APPROACH TO INNOVATION IN THE WORKPLACE? Willis Haviland Carrier was granted a US patent for an "apparatus for treating air" in 1906 and so began a lifetime of creating airconditioners ...