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Travails of an Investigative Journalist
Adele Ferguson, the multi-award-winning business writer, gave a talk at the 2022 Global Accounting Hall of Fame (Australia) dinner about the difficulties face by both investigative journalists and whistle-blowers in Australia. Adele was the Management Accounting Hall of Fame recipient in 2019 for her many exposés include that which brought
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Prof Rodney Sims inducted to the Global Management Accounting Hall of Fame for his services to the profession and the community in Australia
Rodney Graham “Rod” Sims AO is an Australian economist and former public servant. He served as chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), Australia’s competition regulator, from 1 August 2011 to 20 March 2022; the longest serving ACCC chair in the agency’s history. Currently, he is Professor in the practice of
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Mr. Don Rankin inducted to the Global Accounting Hall of Fame for his services to the profession in Australia
Mr. Don Rankin, BCom (Melb), FCA, FCPA, has had a long career in management accounting and business advisory services. After graduation, he commenced work at Hungerford Spooner and Kirkhope in1974 under the great mentorship of Ronald Pitcher and Tim Jonas. Don grew up in country New South Wales moving from town to town,
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Mr. Simon Griffiths inducted to Social Purpose Innovator Hall of Fame for his impact on social entrepreneurship and sustainability
Mr. Simon Griffiths is an engineer and economist turned social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the high-growth start-up Who Gives a Crap, a profit-for-purpose toilet paper company that uses 50% of its profits to build toilets in the developing world. Through Simon’s university years, he spent time in Asia
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Ajay Unni – How to derive ROI from your cybersecurity spent
Implementing a comprehensive cybersecurity program can take a lot of effort and resources. However daunting these costs may seem, they are severely outweighed by the legal, financial, and reputational repercussions an organisation faces if a security incident occurs. So how do you derive your Return On Investment (ROI) from the
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Prof Charl de Villiers – What’s New in Sustainability Reporting Standards: The Impact of IASB, SEC and EFRAG
Social and environmental disclosure standards and guidelines have proliferated, each with a unique focus and characteristics. The entrance of the IASB into this arena has led to renewed interest and activity, including some consolidation among standard setters. At the same time, the involvement of the SEC in the US and
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Mayuri Wijayasundara PhD, CPA on Circular Economy – The role of management accountants
Circular economy is an alternative economic model to the current linear economic model we are in. In a linear economy, we manufacture, distribute, and consume products leading to generation of waste. This model leads to degeneration of the environment not only through resources extraction, but also with the disposal of
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Prof Janek Ratnatunga on “Green Swan: The Existential Cost of the Plastic Pandemic”
‘Green swans’ are the consequences of the risks we humans create for ourselves by pumping contaminants into our air and water, destroying our ecosystems, and destabilizing our climate. Some causes of an impending green swan event, like global warming are well studied, and were discussed at length at COP 26.
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Alena Bennett on “CFO of the Future Beyond Business Partner”
Discussion: For so long "Business Partner" has been the endgame, the holy grail for CFOs and their teams. Certainly not a new concept, it's still a hard hurdle for many CFOs to reach and overcome. For those that have mastered what it takes to be a business partner, job satisfaction
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Chris Baker on “Is Personality Profiling useful in People and Culture (HR) management”
When it comes to recruiting, most people will tell you that attitude is as important as skills and knowledge. In fact, skills and knowledge are hygiene factors that can be taught, whilst attitude is in one’s DNA. Yet, few if any of them take any concrete action to assess the
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Dr Chris D’Souza and Kieran Keleher “Project Management in a Post-Covid World”
All managers and Management accountants need to have project management skills. We often overlook the fact that every organisation always has ongoing projects of different sizes in progress at any given time. As such, the success of any organisation depends on successful project management. Post Covid 19 these skills are
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Lasanka Perera and Lee Eaton of Independent Reserve on “Bitcoin and Crypto: Why They Are Viable Investment Options”
Discussion: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency…you have heard these terms… what do they mean? The price of a Bitcoin is currently over A$60,000 … if you do not have such money, can you invest in Bitcoin? Our CEO wrote a blog about this https://cmaaustralia.edu.au/ontarget/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-bitcoin-but-was-afraid-to-ask/. Now CMA Australia brings you two leading professionals
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Prof Brendan O’Connell “How Accounting and Finance Professionals Can Help in Climate Action”
Discussion: Accounting and finance professionals, as providers and interpreters of both financial and non-financial information for organisations, can play a crucial role in assisting their organisations to address the challenges faced by climate change. This Webinar will explore some of the ways that accounting and finance professional can help in this area
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Prof Janek Ratnatunga “Money Laundering: Traditional vs. Digital: Key Lessons for Bankers and Finance Professionals”
Discussion: Money laundering is more than a financial crime. It is a tool that makes all other crimes possible from drug trafficking to political crimes. The unfortunate reality is that it is not only the dubious banks in less regulated countries that make money laundering possible; but also the banks
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Valuation and distress analysis in the post COVID era
About Seminar This webinar considers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on business valuations and corporate risk assessment. The impact of financial structure on planning performance evaluation is considered, specifically the relative measures (ratios) used in financial statement analysis. The webinar introduces a number of distress analysis tools that management
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Recording: 50 Shades of ‘New Normal’ (Part 3): The Clash of Global Interconnections – Prof Janek Ratnatunga
Webinar details: In Part One of this webinar series, the political and social ‘alternate reality’ that the world finds itself as the ‘new normal’ was covered. In the second part of the webinar series, it was shown that the traditional macroeconomic policies that worked in previous crises could no longer be
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Recording: 50 Shades of ‘New Normal’ (Part 2): The Emergence Of ‘Crazynomics’
Webinar details: In Part One of this webinar series, the political and social ‘alternate reality’ that the world finds itself in was covered. Significant changes that were already happening prior to the COVID-19 were supercharged during the pandemic; creating lasting shades of ‘new normal’. In all, 35 shades of ‘new
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Recording: 50 Shades of ‘New Normal’ (Part 1): Whipping Companies to Embrace an Alternate Societal Lifestyle
Webinar details: The ‘New Normal” seemed to have happened overnight with the advent of the coronavirus. Whilst there were signs and warnings that major disruption was around the corner before the COVID-19 virus hit us; these were doomsday scenarios of the future, rather than one that required immediate crisis management
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Recording: Finance Leadership during a Crisis Respond, Recover and Reimagine
Webinar details: A crisis such as COVID-19 has simultaneous impacts on organisations. A shock of this scale is likely to result in quantum shift changes to the post-crisis economic and business landscape that will create major changes in the preferences of consumers and all stakeholders including, but not limited to, how
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Recording: Costing Life: Air Water and Food
Webinar details: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it the stark realisation of the importance of Air, Water and Food - the fundamental requirements for life to exist on this Earth. Emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is not only causing climate change, but also air pollution. Water costs are also
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