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With concerns over the economy in China and the United States abating, as well as strong balance sheets and cash flows, CFOs are more confident to take on more risk and help deliver growth in their organisations, according to Deloitte’s latest Quarterly CFO Survey.
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The online education sector is growing at a rapid pace internationally. According to research undertaken by analysts at IBISWorld, the sector is one of the top five growing industries, worth $5bn in annual revenue in Australia. It employs nearly 20,000 people and is also expected to outperform the overall economy through 2017-2018.
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Spending on risk management IT is expected to slow, as financial sector budgets remain low and organisations shift investments to new areas.
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The Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board (APESB) is looking to help professional accountants manage the various risks associated with outsourcing through new management guidelines.
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Businesses should be questioning the effectiveness of their risk management practices and budgeting in order to find new ways of improving profitability in the continually dour economic climate, Ernst & Young claims.
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A group of New Zealand organisations responsible for critical infrastructure have established voluntary standards for the security of such systems against digital attack.
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The Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) is embarking on two new research projects in a bid to better inform debate and policy around liquidity and risk in Australia and worldwide.
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Successful IT projects can help generate large returns for organizations, but they can also be fraught with risk. Those who convert strategy into execution using business process management (BPM) capabilities will get the most benefit from their IT projects. In fact, many companies can realize immediate and lasting improvements in IT and people-based initiatives when they use a management discipline called value-driven BPM.
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An economist believes Australia may face a recession in 2014 unless interest rates and the dollar both fall sharply.
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Like Lloyd’s Names during the bad old days, non-executive directors have traditionally been seen as either mates of the chairman or key shareholders, titled duffers invited in to bring respectability to the company letterhead or placemen designed to give the executives an easy ride.
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Tim Harcourt’s a smart guy. He’s the chief economist at Australia’s Austrade and has a very acute sense of export opportunity for Australian businesses both big and small. In an interview he used Donald Horne’s title The Lucky Country to underscore how, this time, we have made our luck by forging great linkages with Asia-Indo China; where Indonesia, India, China are all expecting 8-9 per cent growth rates for 2012.
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Property as an asset class dovetails right into an Australian investors psyche as Australians are true believers in brick and mortar. It’s not just a belief but it’s a trust that over time, property will appreciate.
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The hype associated with enterprise cloud computing is slowly dissipating, very slowly.
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As a CFO overseeing your organisation’s transition to Cloud computing, how can you ensure your cloud initiatives delivers on its promises over the medium and long term? Focusing on the short term is the comparatively easy part. Enterprise Risk Management is often one of the key accountabilities for the CFO, and an uncontrolled shift to the cloud could expose you and your organisation to unacceptable risks.
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Calculating the impact of a carbon tax is relatively easy if you are one of the 500 ‘polluters’; it is more problematic if you are one of the remaining 2 million Australian businesses
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In the great quest to measure any company's essential value there's one big question we try not to think too much about: How do we put a value on invention, or, to be more specific, a value on future invention?
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Privacy advocates concerned over threat to personal data
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In the first of a series of articles on the top 10 risks facing CFOs we take a look at regulation - the number one risk to business.
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Rates of fraud dipped slightly this year, according to Kroll's report. But, increasingly, it is being committed by folks right under your nose.
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In the second in a series of articles on the top 10 risks facing CFOs, we take a look at cost cutting
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The fifth in a series of in-depth features on sector specific challenges facing CFOs
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