Many people could order a glass of wine in French, but they would need to be more au fait with the language to conduct business. For most native English speakers, trying to master workplace or negotiating skills in Mandarin or Korean seems... read more

The Seventh International Financial Reporting Standards Regional (IFRS) Policy Forum, held in Hong Kong from 5-6 June, considered a number of innovative changes to financial reporting. The conference attracted an audience of more than 200... read more

Investors assessing the recent reporting season of publicly listed companies will base their opinions of corporate performance largely on a handful of key numbers, all expressed in dollar terms and all dealing with the most recent financial year.... read more

They cost more, are harder to train and less flexible. They’re also more likely to quit, resistant to change and injury-prone. These are just some of the views tarnishing mature age workers with the same brush and, depending on the... read more

Woodside Petroleum has taken out the 2013 Report of the Year Award for Listed Companies at the Australasian Reporting Awards (ARA) held recently in Melbourne, Australia. A recipient of a number of ARA Gold Awards in previous years, Woodside... read more

One of the great advantages of having a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) is not only the control you have but the ability to buy assets that most superannuation funds don’t have access to. One great example is artwork. There are many... read more

Sustainability is a prolific business buzzword these days, but it means different things to different people and their businesses. Meet eight sustainability champions – individuals who are nourishing people, planet and profit with their... read more

It’s fair to say Rhys Knight was nervous when he decided to take a sabbatical. At 34, his first baby was due and his wife was urging him to quit work to spend some quality time with the family. “The idea of it was scary. I’d... read more

Nearly two-thirds of workers rate their boss either average or horrible, ­according to a study by employment website www.careerone.com.au. The rest of the survey paints a ­similar picture: 61 per cent claimed to have been bullied by a... read more

Infamous last words. If you’re lucky, that nice warm feeling may last right up to when you start looking for a new job, Cameron Cooper writes. Today, a more forthright social media generation doesn’t always follow the script. When... read more

The British tax system, up to 2009, was straining under the weight of late payments. For years Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) had sent letters to those with tax debts. They threatened legal action and warned of interest penalties... read more

ENTHUSIASTIC DRIVERS of finely engineered luxury cars well know those moments when driver, machine and road become one. As buyers of such cars, however, they’ll also know when passionate purchaser meets salivating finance manager and... read more

“Attempted murderer escapes psychiatric hospital” said a news headline recently. In my mind I pictured the man who would fit the headline. Then I saw the photo. The escapee was a young woman. This was a good lesson for me on my... read more

All registered charities will be required to complete and lodge an AIS for the year ending 30 June 2013 onwards. Jon Reid is Director of Reporting and Red Tape Reduction at the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). Reid will... read more

An analysis of changes in volume for Google search terms related to finance reveals patterns that could be interpreted as early-warning signs of stock market moves. Tobias Preis of Warwick Business School, Helen Susannah Moat of University College... read more

There aren’t many people who can say they’ve never worked with a difficult person. Sure, we all have our off days, but there are some people who are consistently that little bit harder to deal with, whether because they’re... read more

The global economy is definitely looking up in the short term, according to the 730 senior institutional investors who shared their expectations in latest The Economist magazine’s Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) study of investor... read more

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Corporations and businesses across the globe are increasingly feeling the pressure to address a wider range of environmental and social issues in their corporate reporting frameworks. The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) conference, held in... read more

Kelly Baker-Jamieson, the entrepreneur behind the “edible bouquet” company Edible Blooms, lives by the motto, “You miss 100 per cent of the shots you never take”. The quote, famously said by ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky,... read more

You sent in your resume, went off for the interview, and got the job. Great. But it’s a couple of years later and your career is going nowhere or, worse still, your employer might be looking to get rid of you. It’s time to either... read more

This is part three in a four-part series. Next week: Are there toxic personalities in your workplace? How to deal with tricky people on the job. More often than not, mental health issues in the workplace can be circumvented – or at least... read more

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has released its report on statutory oversight of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). A key focus of the inquiry was audit quality in Australia and... read more

Our hearts go out to all those affected by Ford’s coming closure. Confronting a somewhat uncertain future, this is a wake-up call for how we create and sustain jobs through enhanced skills, innovative workplaces and entrepreneurial... read more

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” So said the philosopher Plato, but he might equally have been talking about working in a modern-day office, where turf... read more