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April 2008
News and feature articles from the April 2008 edition of INTHEBLACK.
Feature articles
Get ready: Sustainability reporting is on the cards for large companies, and is likely to be just round the corner for smaller businesses.
Protecting the rights of a small business client. A Bendigo CPA tried out the test case funding process and won.
Once employees begin minding frail, aged or disabled loved ones, many are forced out of their jobs. But there are ways to help carers stay working.
Increasing oil prices, low-budget competition and skilled labour shortages are sending the aviation industry into a state of flux.
The CPA designation is one of the world's most portable. INTHEBLACK talks to CPAs who made the move to Europe to experience business in a broader context.
Dossier
IFRS: as IFRSs have grown in detail, so has the burden on SMEs. Rob Mackay finds out whether the new simplified IFRS book will ease the load.
A new productivity commission inquiry to delve into the benefits and costs of parental leave; a report finds women still underpaid.
Tax: directors of companies used to be isolated from company tax debts. Not any more, says Michael Pelden.
In a volatile market, separating clients' emotional reaction to short-term volatility from long-term strategy is important, writes Brad Peters.
Budgeting: a survey set out to find why a process that is viewed so negatively continues to be widely embraced, write Dr Prabhu Sivabalan and Dr David Brown of the University of Technology, Sydney.
Robert Richards on CGT relief; when taxpayers want to object; and saying goodbye to a past tax editor.
A banker shouldn't allow promotion prospects to cloud his judgement, says Tiina-Liisa Sexton.
A member wonders how a competency standard fits with CPD obligations.
Regulars
Neale Blackwood CPA reduces some macro mayhem.
RBA tries rough with smooth Peter Pontikis says elevated interest rates will remain the rule.
A selection of CPA Australia's media mentions in March 2008.
Maree Zanatta CPA sorts finances for the army.
Selection of brief news items featured in the April 2008 edition of INTHEBLACK.
CPA Australia CEO Geoff Rankin FCPA reports on activities carried out on behalf of members.
News, opinion and member updates.
Message from CPA Australia's president.
Feedback from members of CPA Australia published in the April 2008 edition of INTHEBLACK.
Until recently many have been in denial about climate change, thinking the phenomenon was something concocted by alarmists, tree huggers and opportunists. But not Mark Kelleher CPA, managing director of one of the leading renewable energy companies.
You don't have to be a committed thespian or a theatre aficionado to understand how the Bard's 400-year-old works give inspiration and instruction to the modern leader.
Participants in the Oxfam Trailwalker are certainly putting their feet first, writes Jackie Blondell.
Charles Wright is impressed with a digital TV recorder that does it all.
Derek Parker finds out about the role of dodgy accounting in corporate collapses.
