Introduction Newspapers and other media outlets have this week reported stories on corrupt activities involving casinos, money laundering, foreign influence, tax avoidance, offshore companies, tax havens, anti-corruption bodies, lax regulation, quantitative easing, and young families […]
The Australian arm of one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious accounting firms, KPMG, has been fined A$613,000 by the US accounting watchdog, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), after a review found […]
But do the numbers stack-up? Let us take a management accountant’s numbers view. […]
To date, 14.2 percent of the total Australian population, or 3.7 million people, have been fully vaccinated and 31.7 per cent (8.1 million) have received a first dose.[1] This is an abysmal take-up of what […]
“Give a man a fish, and he will be hungry again tomorrow; teach him to catch a fish, and he will be richer all his life.” This article paraphrases the above and argues that: “mining […]
Introduction Money laundering is the process of making illegally gained proceeds (“dirty money”) appear legal (“clean”). In a number of legal and regulatory systems, however, the term money laundering has been extended to other forms […]
Australia’s deadly bushfires in the summer of 2019-2020 dramatically demonstrated to the entire world the horrific dangers of climate change. It confirmed what the steady accumulation of scientific data over the last 25 years has […]
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