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  • Feature Directorship in cyberspace

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Sep 2010

    Directors have much to gain by using new technologies, but as Domini Stuart reports, they also need to be aware of the many risks. Directorship in cyberspace As conference centre manager at Brisbane Technology Park, Kellie Heiler is very aware of the changing role of technology ...

  • Greens Piece October 09

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Oct 2009

    John M Green suggests boards ditch the old short-termist penny-farthing corporate model. Penny-farthing companies Just as cyclist Lance Armstrong owes the industrial revolution for the penny-farthing, investors should thank it for the freely registrable limited liability corporation. Sin...

  • Featherstone Encouraging startup governance

    Content Type: 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...

  • Chairman s Report Engaging shareholders May 08

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2008

    Engaging shareholders Australia is confronted by unprecedented challenges driven by turmoil within global financial markets. Inadequacies have been revealed within the operations and regulation of our markets, and there is evidence of excesses that are inevitably associated with periods of sustaine...

  • Feature Dont shoot the messenger Apr 08

    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 ...

  • Earnings guidance

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2008

    A seemingly insatiable hunger for corporate information may be encouraging a tendency towards short-termism. Janine Mace examines whether Australian companies are dishing up too much data to investors on their outlook. Don’t super size me The current reporting season has opened on a subdued no...

  • US Corporate Governance Worlds apart Feb 08

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2008

    Domini Stuart finds that Australia’s corporate governance rules have diverged from those in the US. Worlds apart As recently asthe beginning of this decade, many commentators were predicting a standardised shareholder-centred Anglo-American model of corporate governance. Then ...

  • ceo report clarity simplicity and performance

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2006

      Clarity, simplicity and performance For business, the turn of the century was a giant rolling wave. It welled up with the first internet boom in the 1990s and then came crashing down over us with the collapses of HIH and Enron, and other disasters around the world. Inevitably, there followed ...

  • inside aicd change is inevitable

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2006

      Change is inevitable…adapting is crucial Change has never more been apparent than in today’s corporate arena. People, and the businesses they run, are no longer constrained by the four walls of their corporate headquarters. The phenomena of globalisation, emerging technologies, cultural shift...

  • PJC Hearings on CLERP 9

    Content Type: Policy Submission

    13 Apr 2004

    13 April 2004 TO: Democrats Senator Andrew MurraySenator for Western AustraliaParliament HouseCANBERRA ACT 2600 Dear Senator Murray,Thank you for the welcome you gave me at the PJC hearings on CLERP 9 and for the opportunity to comment on and potentially to support your proposed amendment.Yo...

  • Coping with childish phobias Accounting

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2004

    As my friends and acquaintances are aware, I am partially deaf. I was diagnosed with nerve deafness in the mid-1970s after my parents took me to an audiologist to learn that my hearing was impaired in my left ear. Coping with childish phobias As my friends and acquaintances are aware, I am partiall...