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  • Curb your short-termism

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2013

    Louise Pocock provides some tips on how a board can help management strike a balance between short-, medium- and long-term horizons. An effective board will generally adopt strategies that manage and strike a balance between short-, medium- and long-term horizons. That is, it will pay att...

  • Submission to ASIC in relation to Consultation Paper 150

    Content Type: Policy Submission

    12 May 2011

    This submission is in response to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's Consultation Paper, 'Disclosing financial information other than in accordance with accounting standards', released on 24 March 2011.   The submission expresses our concerns about developing these guideli...

  • Payment of Dividends Corporations Amendment Corporate Reporting Reform Bill 2010

    Content Type: Policy Submission

    11 Jun 2010

    On 9 June 2010, the Australian Institute of Company Directors wrote to the Hon Chris Bowen MP regarding the test for the payment of dividends included in the Corporations Amendment (Corporate Reporting Reform) Bill 2010. Pursuant to the Bill companies will need to ensure that amongst other things, t...

  • Submission to AASB Differential Reporting Framework

    Content Type: Policy Submission

    22 Apr 2010

    On 22 April 2010 the Australian Institute of Company Directors lodged a submission with the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) relating to the AASB’s Exposure Draft 192 Differential Reporting Framework and the accompanying consultation paper Differential Financial Reporting – Reducing Disc...

  • Submission to Treasury on Discussion Paper Insolvent Trading Safe harbour for reorgan

    Content Type: Policy Submission

    02 Mar 2010

    We are concerned that current laws on insolvent trading sometimes prevent the best stakeholder outcomes from being achieved. They make trading out of insolvency not only extremely risky but they prohibit it for the directors of a company in solvency stress. Each director faces being held personally ...

  • Submission to Treasury on Australias corporate reporting framework

    Content Type: Policy Submission

    03 Feb 2010

    In a submission dated 3 February 2010 AICD provided its comments to Federal Treasury on the exposure draft of the Corporations Amendment (Corporate Reporting Reform) Bill 2010. AICD supported most of the proposed amendments, although it expressed opposition to changing the current wording of the dir...

  • AICD submission to ASIC on consultation paper 124 Duty to Prevent Insolvent Trading Guide f

    Content Type: Policy Submission

    22 Dec 2009

    AICD argues in this submission that the proposed guide has a useful educative purpose but that its limitations should be clearly acknowledged including that it does not represent the law or judicial interpretation. The guide fails to acknowledge at a number of levels the difference between the roles...

  • AICD submission to Senate Economics Committee on termination payments

    Content Type: Policy Submission

    17 Jul 2009

    On 17 July 2009 AICD provided a submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee in response to its inquiry into the Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Termination Payments) Bill 2009. The submission outlines AICD’s concerns with the Bill, including the proposed low threshol...