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  • NFP sector governance under the microscope

    Content Type: Media Release

    27 Sep 2011

    The Directors Social Impact Study 2011, Australia’s only study examining the governance of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector and the contribution made by its directors, was launched on 27 September 2011. The study reveals that on average non-executive directors of NFP organisations spend ...

  • Feature: Under scrutiny

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2011

    Tony Featherstone argues that boards should be preparing for heightened inspection of their organisations’ environmental, social and governance practices and sustainability reporting. Corporate Australia, financial markets and billion-dollar super funds are on a collision course over susta...

  • Featherstone: In defence of board ethics

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2011

    Tony Featherstone argues that directors can do more to disprove public misperceptions about their standards of ethics. No finding in the Director Sentiment Index jarred more than views on ethics. The inaugural Australian Institute of Company Directors survey found most directors believed t...

  • Viewpoint: Doing the right thing

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2011

    How do directors ensure the companies they oversee are behaving ethically? This was the topic discussed at a recent lunch hosted by the Australian Institute of Company Directors and AIA Australia. Zilla Efrat reports. In the past, many companies considered business ethics to be part of the...

  • Corporate Responsibility Organisations

    Content Type: General

    19 Jan 2011

    Australian Australian Shareholders’ Association (ASA). Read policy statements, submissions and opinion pieces. St James Ethics Centre International AccountAbility A UK-based but international member organisation concerned with developing competencies i...

  • Opinion Accounting for water

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jul 2010

    A standard for water reporting will soon be released. Peter Day , Jayne Godfrey and Sean Hanley explain how it will work. Accounting for water Water is a fundamental resource for all organisations – public a...

  • Opinion Keeping climate change on the table

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jul 2010

    Steve Gibbs explains why climate change is still a critical boardroom issue even though little progress has been made on an emissions trading scheme or international agreement on future action. Keeping climate change on the table With the shelving of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Schem...

  • Market Watch Measuring our smarts

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jun 2010

    Phil Ruthven investigates whether Australia is indeed an intelligent nation. Measuring our smarts If Australia was to judge its goal, as former Prime Minister Bob Hawke once said, as the intelligent nation, then one set of statistics suggests we are a long way short of this aspiration. F...