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• Reshaping for a better tomorrow

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Aug 2012

  Successfully restructuring a company involves far more than tackling the problems of today. Domini Stuart provides some tips on how directors can help their companies reshape for a better future. Restructuring mistakes directors can make: Not understanding the potential effect ...

• Taking advantage of the Asian Century

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Aug 2012

  John H C Colvin explains how Company Directors plans to make a contribution to international corporate governance practices, particularly in our surrounding regions. The impending release of the Government’s white paper on Australia in the Asian Century, developed by a panel led by Dr Ken...

• Standing out from the crowd

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Aug 2012

  Sarré Cousens believes boards should use the corporate governance statement as an opportunity to communicate more meaningfully with the market. Annual reports inundate us with information. Regulators seem to think more is better when it comes to communicating "transparently" with investor...

• Lifting the governance bar abroad

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jul 2012

  Tony Featherstone believes Australia’s high governance standards should accompany its miners overseas to protect shareholder interests and help poorer communities. Australia has done a great job exporting its mining expertise to frontier markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Hundreds...

• Model behaviour

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2012

  John M Green explains why intelligent and effective risk management and constructive scepticism are crucial in a world of imperfect information and human biases. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." But more than a millennium earlier, St Augustine said: "Si fallor, sum." This is a ...

• Securing our long-term future

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2012

  Janine Mace explores how Australia’s superannuation pot, with $1.34 trillion in assets under management by 30 June 2011, might be better governed. For years, the legislation around Australia’s superannuation system has been derided as a moveable feast – constantly changing and difficult ...

• Taking tax risks in hand

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2012

  Poor tax governance can damage the standing of a company, its share price and its directors’ reputations. As regulatory scrutiny increases, Domini Stuart discusses how directors can manage tax risks more effectively. Seven things a director needs to knowTheo Sakell of Pitcher Partner...

• Sharpening the productivity focus

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2012

  Neil Plumridge examines whether we are asking the right questions about productivity around the boardroom table. It’s been impossible to miss the continuing commentary about productivity over the past 12 months. Unfortunately, most of the debate has misguidedly centred on industrial rela...

• A sleeper in the boardroom

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2012

  Tony Featherstone believes boards should be more focused on employee engagement to help their organisations adapt to changing markets and conditions. As critical board issues go, employee engagement barely rates compared with executive pay, director liability and broader environment, soc...

• Protecting your IP

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Mar 2012

  Intellectual property is often among a company’s most valuable assets. Domini Stuart explains the dangers of not managing it as well as physical assets. Do you know the difference between a brand name, trademark, business name, domain name and logo? That commercialising an invention too s...

• Keeping up with the times

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Mar 2012

  Michael Moore warns directors to look out for cultural lag in the boardroom. There is such a thing as a cultural lag in the boardroom. The slow take up of software, innovations, social networking and cloud computing challenges long after they have been in use are good examples. The t...

• A framework for good director practice

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Mar 2012

  Introducing the Company Directors Corporate Governance Framework Developed in 2010/11 by the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Corporate Governance Framework sums up the practices (skills, attributes and expertise) that comprise good director practice as demonstrated by respo...

• Q&A with James Strong

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2012

  James Strong tells Tony Featherstone that directors need to have an influential, collective voice, and calls for a high-quality, realistic debate about the quality of governance in Australia. James Strong AO FAICD could be forgiven for focusing only on his main board roles in 2012 and lea...

• Small explorers need a governance boost

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2012

  Tony Featherstone believes directors of small explorers in search of capital face a difficult year ahead and should lift their governance game.  Boards of small mining companies must be on their game in 2012. Higher market, commodity and regulatory risks could threaten cash-strapped explo...

• Making it past the try line

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2012

  Domini Stuart examines the challenges directors of sports boards have to tackle to build and support winning teams. Sports board challengesA tight economy Technology Diversifying and expanding income streams Competing state and national demands Increasing legislation and com...