Governance and eliminating prejudice in the workplace 03 February 2021 5:05AM Whatever the corporate setting, disrespect towards employees can have disastrous cultural consequences and cause serious reputational damage. read more
How will Albanese fund the Labor campaign? 02 February 2021 5:53AM How will PM Scott Morrison account for the Liberals? read more
Shipton lingers, leaves ASIC 01 February 2021 5:44AM ASIC is all over the shop, and James Shipton will be gone as chair in months or weeks. read more
Critics can, and should, now listen in and get up to speed on the FRC 18 December 2020 6:11AM Australians interested in the work of the Financial Reporting Council will be able to see it meet, but the significance of the decision to open the meetings of the FRC to the public will not be unders.. read more
Insurance accounting regulation: Don’t be that guy 18 December 2020 6:09AM Accounting for insurance contracts is going to be shaken up and the corporate regulator is giving companies, their directors and others early warning about the impact of the accounting standard. read more
Killing FASEA off is a good move but more needs to be done 14 December 2020 6:10AM Financial services consumers need the protection that is afforded by a one stop shop for the registration, monitoring and discipline of advisers. read more
Lessons from the Freedom Foods fess-up 08 December 2020 5:47AM There is nothing like a major accounting whodunnit to get people’s imaginations whirring and so it was last week with the Freedom Foods Group Limited annual report and associated company announcement. read more
A welcome merger with a soulless label 01 December 2020 6:35AM The International Integrated Reporting Council and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board are to merge to form the Value Reporting Foundation. read more
Banks locked out of Victorian schools 30 November 2020 5:44AM The Victorian government is to ban the promotion of banking products to students by banks. read more
Time to get rid of ‘too many standard-setting cooks’ 27 November 2020 5:53AM There are moves afoot in global regulatory that should cause Australian parliamentarians to reflect more deeply on the structure we have in place to regulate financial reporting, corporate disclosure.. read more