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  • New executive pay worries

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2013

    Listed companies have jumped many hurdles to improve their executive pay practices and avoid falling foul of the "two-strikes" law. Now, as Domini Stuart reports, a new wave of pay reforms are heading their way. The second reporting season since the introduction of the "two-strikes" rule l...

  • Feature New accounting blues

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jul 2010

    Domini Stuart reports on why aspects of the proposed new differential reporting regime may create headaches for some directors. New accounting blues Areas of concern for differential reporting include: A “clarification” for special-purpose fi...

  • 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...

  • Feature Financial yearend reporting headaches

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2010

    The global financial crisis may have eased, but as Domini Stuart reports, directors still face a range of accounting headaches as they ready for financial year-end reporting. Financial year-end reporting headaches Accounting challenges for directors ...

  • Feature Towards more meaningful reporting

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2010

    Domini Stuart discusses why more companies are using underlying profit as a way to report their results in a more meaningful way. Towards more meaningful reporting For the year ended 30 June 2009, listed property group Stockland simultaneously reported an unde...

  • Feature IFRS 3 years on

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2008

    Nearly three years down the track, Domini Stuart finds that International Financial Reporting Standards pose several challenges for Australian companies. IFRS 3 years on The quality of our home-grown accounting standards was recognised internationally. However, with Australia com...

  • Feature Whats Really True and Fair

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jul 2008

    Domini Stuart reports on how current accounting standards make forming a view on what’s ‘true and fair’ a tough task for directors. What’s really true and fair Back in the early 1990s, Australian companies could override accounting standards on the grounds that they would not provide a t...

  • Online Annual Reports

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2007

    Annual reports no longer have to be mailed out to each and every shareholder and can be published online instead. Domini Stuart reveals how these changes can provide opportunities to boost investor communications. The brave new world of electronic reporting On the evening of June 21, Parlia...

  • IFRS for SMEs

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2007

    Domini Stuart examines the pros and cons of applying International Financial Reporting Standards to small businesses – and finds mainly cons. When big rules don’t work for small companies The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) has released Invitation to Comment ITC 12 Request fo...