Tricks and traps of advising families: an accountant’s view
People’s longer lifespans are affecting family business succession plans and estate planning. What should advisers do?...
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Productivity is up, why not wages?
Labour productivity has massively outstripped real wages growth in Australia and New Zealand since 2000. Saul Eslake says fixing this broken relationship is a priority for our nations’ economic and...
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Do CA ethics and values produce better leaders?
Outgoing CA ANZ President Jane Stanton FCA says the ethics and values that guide chartered accountants are precious commodities in a world needing leaders...
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Culture is the key to behaviour
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand President Jane Stanton believes the shared ethical framework and values create the CA community’s strong culture...
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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...