Seeing into the future
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand President Jane Stanton explores the need to uphold the profession’s competencies and values...
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Giving advice in a post-truth world
Most professionals aim to use evidence and reason to work out the best advice for their clients. But that ideal is under threat, due to eroding public trust in the counsel of experts...
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Machiavelli Inc: Are corporations psychopaths?
Corporations are legal, but it’s hard to consider them moral. A philosopher asks whether they should be thought of as psychopaths...
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Help large companies do R&D
Recreating the start-up success of Silicon Valley is tough. Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann urges policymakers to encourage R&D inside large companies...
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Higher rates will fight the next economic bubble
Central banks worried about raising interest rates should remember how an earlier bout of interest-rate caution helped create the 2000s asset bubble...
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China's renewable energy revolution
China is to invest US$360b in renewable energy by 2020 and is poised to become a world leader in the field...
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Why CAs must help rebuild trust
As chartered accountants, winning our clients’ trust is central to the success of our work and to the reputation of our profession...
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New Zealand's economy as good as gold
Ask New Zealand’s National Government’s “finance guy” about his vision for the New Zealand economy and Steven Joyce will tell you you’re soaking in it...
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Stress-busting tactics
The best approaches to dealing with stress and anxiety...
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What’s holding up the blockchain?
Much has been said about blockchain when it comes to cryptocurrencies, but we have yet to figure out other uses for it...