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  • Crunching the numbers

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2012

    Sam Walker investigates how directors can better evaluate the budget papers that are soon to appear in their board packs as organisations prepare for the next financial year. Love it or hate it, crunching the numbers is crucial to any successful business. Without a financial plan to g...

  • Feature Removing the chinks from the information chain

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jun 2010

    Given the nature of their roles, non-executive directors cannot know everything about an organisation and are heavily dependent on management for information. Domini Stuart investigates how directors can improve this information flow. Removing the chinks from the informati...

  • News and Views Mar09

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2009

    Australia joins Global Reporting Initiative AICD would like to join Senator Nick Sherry, the Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, in welcoming the appointment of Dr Simon Longstaff, executive director of the St James Ethics Centre, to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) board of directo...

  • Board Evaluation

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2007

    Setting high standards of corporate performance and governance benefits companies, the economy and the community. As Kevin Forde reports, a critical element in achieving these outcomes is for boards to adopt a process of rigorous evaluation of their performance and that of individual directors. ...

  • Policy Update

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2007

    Some of the issues addressed by AICD’s policy department, committees and taskforces over the last month are outlined below. Policy Update Treasury Review of Sanctions in Corporate Law In March 2007 Treasurer Peter Costello announced a review to establish the extent to which sanctions under...

  • Perspective

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Oct 2006

    Robert Elstone, Elizabeth Johnstone and Charles Macek argue that directors need to be courageous in encouraging management to adopt a long term strategic focus – and not focus entirely on short-term financial performance. Some challenges for directors in short termism In previous articles we c...

  • Perspective

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2006

    Grahame Dowling gives some sage advice on how to improve your company’s reputation. How to create a better corporate reputation In last month’s issue of Company Director I outlined the risks facing the reputations of Australian companies and how to defend the overall reputation of corporate Au...

  • 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...