Webinars

Professor Janek Ratnatunga, the CEO of ICMA(ANZ) gives an insightful talk titled “Future Proofing Indonesian Companies’ at the Business and Economics Conference at the University of Widyagama in Malang, Indonesia. Prof Ratnatunga’s talk is on how the world has developed from Artificial Enhancements to Enhanced Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence. He says that whilst the Indonesian government has done well in avoiding

Adele Ferguson, the multi-award-winning business writer, gave a talk at the 2022 Global Accounting Hall of Fame (Australia) dinner about the difficulties face by both investigative journalists and whistle-blowers in Australia. Adele was the Management Accounting Hall of Fame recipient in 2019 for her many exposés include that which brought

Rodney Graham “Rod” Sims AO the former chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), Australia’s competition regulator gives a inciteful, educative and often humorous talk of his experiences as the longest serving ACCC chair in the agency’s history. The talk was given when Prof Sims was inducted to

Don Rankin talks of his long career in management accounting and business advisory services; from early days growing up in country New South Wales to being a partner at KPMG and then a founding Partner of Pitcher Partners. He has worked with and advised both corporate and family businesses; and seen

Mr. Simon Griffiths, the engineer and economist turned social entrepreneur talks about the ‘a-ha moment’ he had– to sell toilet paper and use the profits to build toilets and to call the venture Who Gives A Crap. He is the co-founder and CEO of the high-growth start-up Who Gives a

Implementing a comprehensive cybersecurity program can take a lot of effort and resources. However daunting these costs may seem, they are severely outweighed by the legal, financial, and reputational repercussions an organisation faces if a security incident occurs. So how do you derive your Return On Investment (ROI) from the

Social and environmental disclosure standards and guidelines have proliferated, each with a unique focus and characteristics. The entrance of the IASB into this arena has led to renewed interest and activity, including some consolidation among standard setters. At the same time, the involvement of the SEC in the US and

Circular economy is an alternative economic model to the current linear economic model we are in. In a linear economy, we manufacture, distribute, and consume products leading to generation of waste. This model leads to degeneration of the environment not only through resources extraction, but also with the disposal of

‘Green swans’ are the consequences of the risks we humans create for ourselves by pumping contaminants into our air and water, destroying our ecosystems, and destabilizing our climate. Some causes of an impending green swan event, like global warming are well studied, and were discussed at length at COP 26.

Discussion:  For so long "Business Partner" has been the endgame, the holy grail for CFOs and their teams. Certainly not a new concept, it's still a hard hurdle for many CFOs to reach and overcome. For those that have mastered what it takes to be a business partner, job satisfaction

When it comes to recruiting, most people will tell you that attitude is as important as skills and knowledge. In fact, skills and knowledge are hygiene factors that can be taught, whilst attitude is in one’s DNA. Yet, few if any of them take any concrete action to assess the

All managers and Management accountants need to have project management skills. We often overlook the fact that every organisation always has ongoing projects of different sizes in progress at any given time. As such, the success of any organisation depends on successful project management. Post Covid 19 these skills are

Discussion: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency…you have heard these terms… what do they mean? The price of a Bitcoin is currently over A$60,000 … if you do not have such money, can you invest in Bitcoin? Our CEO wrote a blog about this https://cmaaustralia.edu.au/ontarget/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-bitcoin-but-was-afraid-to-ask/. Now CMA Australia brings you two leading professionals

Discussion: Accounting and finance professionals, as providers and interpreters of both financial and non-financial information for organisations, can play a crucial role in assisting their organisations to address the challenges faced by climate change. This Webinar will explore some of the ways that accounting and finance professional can help in this area

Discussion: Money laundering is more than a financial crime. It is a tool that makes all other crimes possible from drug trafficking to political crimes. The unfortunate reality is that it is not only the dubious banks in less regulated countries that make money laundering possible; but also the banks

About Seminar This webinar considers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on business valuations and corporate risk assessment. The impact of financial structure on planning performance evaluation is considered, specifically the relative measures (ratios) used in financial statement analysis. The webinar introduces a number of distress analysis tools that management

Webinar details: In Part One of this webinar series, the political and social ‘alternate reality’ that the world finds itself as the ‘new normal’ was covered. In the second part of the webinar series, it was shown that the traditional macroeconomic policies that worked in previous crises could no longer be

Webinar details: In Part One of this webinar series, the political and social ‘alternate reality’ that the world finds itself in was covered. Significant changes that were already happening prior to the COVID-19 were supercharged during the pandemic; creating lasting shades of ‘new normal’. In all, 35 shades of ‘new

Webinar details: The ‘New Normal” seemed to have happened overnight with the advent of the coronavirus. Whilst there were signs and warnings that major disruption was around the corner before the COVID-19 virus hit us; these were doomsday scenarios of the future, rather than one that required immediate crisis management

Webinar details: A crisis such as COVID-19 has simultaneous impacts on organisations. A shock of this scale is likely to result in quantum shift changes to the post-crisis economic and business landscape that will create major changes in the preferences of consumers and all stakeholders including, but not limited to, how