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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2009
The Productivity Commission is due to submit its final report on executive remuneration to the Government later this month.
Paul Quinn
explains why he believes some of its recommendations need to be reworked.
Making exec pay PC
The reaction to the Productivity Commission’s (PC) disc...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2009
A sneak preview of what’s shaping up to be a highly entertaining and thought provoking session at
Directorship: 09 – Navigating Uncharted Waters
, AICD’s national conference which takes place in Cairns from 10 to 13 of June.
Drugs, love and ethics
In their everyday live...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2009
Tony Featherstone
reminds directors of small companies about the importance of communicating with shareholders.
Encouraging start-up governance
Small listed companies must work much harder to improve investor communications as the bear market drowns out better-performing companies and ki...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2009
John M Green
warns directors to watch out when a small division or subsidiary is making far more than they expect.
Small but not beautiful
How the mighty can topple over small, seemingly successful things. There’s a lesson in that from the downfall of American International Group (AIG), the...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2008
Bernard Tanner
says its not all gloom and doom for SMEs battling the credit crunch and economic downturn.
When it comes to the crunch
The numbers are staggering. According to the Bank of England, global losses from the credit crunch have topped £1.8 trillion to date ($4.2 trillion). That...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2008
The past year certainly hasn’t been the best time to list on the stock exchange.
Tony Featherstone
chats to the directors of five companies that did take the plunge to find out how they fared.
Taking the IPO leap
Spare a thought for small companies that ha...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2008
For several years, companies have been shouting good news to shareholders from the roof tops. With the economic tide turning,
Domini Stuart
provides some tips on how to break bad news gently – and not so gently.
Don’t shoot the messenger
Reporting bad news ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2006
Directors need to ensure that money spent on marketing is a research-based investment giving high returns – not a money-losing exercise in creative wishful thinking. Kevin Forde gives some suggestions on how to improve your marketing outcomes.
Magic and metrics
Marke...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2006
Phil Ruthven argues that the most profitable organisations in the future will not invest significantly in building and equipment. Instead they will be virtual corporations that outsource their non-core activities.
Rise of the virtual corporation
There are many definitions of a virtual corpora...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2006
Not happy John
John Quinn, chairman of gold miner Perseverance Corporation Limited is clearly not impressed with the application of AIFRS. Commenting on the company’s reported loss of $31.875 million for the six months to 31 December 2006, he had this to say:
“It is not my usual practice to ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2005
Change is inevitable ... adapting is crucial
Work hard, play hard, spend hard, live hard. Generation Y, the children of the baby boom – called the “global teens” – have no time for Generation X whining and self-doubt. They are after style, comfort and the top of the food chain; the sooner their olde...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2005
Building the healthy corporation
It is difficult – but vital – for managers to strike a balance between the short and long terms, say Richard Dobbs, Keith Leslie, and Lenny T. Mendonca*Growing numbers of organisations – including banks on both sides of the Atlantic, a global natural-resources group,...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2004
It isn’t only large publicly listed companies such as NAB which are under the corporate governance microscope, the recent scandals at some leading not-for-profits is putting new pressures on NFP boards and directors, say Paul Jansen and Andrea Kilpatrick*
Making NFP Governan...