Last year Australian and New Zealand businesses were defrauded to the tune of A$373 million. The average theft was more than A$3 million. According to KPMG’s Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Survey, the major frauds occurred because of... read more

In his 14 years in Japan, Paul Butler worked his way up from a financial accountant to finance director roles and attributes much of his success to his ability to speak the local language. Butler worked as a finance director for a couple of... read more

Are the managers at the company you work for holding lots of unusually secretive meetings? Are there mysterious consultants wandering about the place? Have you noticed that recently no one’s been telling you anything? Maybe it’s... read more

In February this year internet giant Yahoo! dismayed productivity experts by announcing that its employees would no longer be allowed to work from home. Not only was it bucking an accelerating trend, but flying in the face of several academic... read more

Finance professionals in Singapore and Hong Kong are more likely to receive a bonus than their counterparts in Australia, according to data released by eFinancialCareers, the global career network for investment banking, asset management and... read more

For the second year running, INTHEBLACK invited nominations for high achievers aged under 40 for the Young Business Leaders list. The result is a group of remarkable young professionals, as varied in their fields as they are geographically... read more

Pay rises are expected at the top end of the accounting and finance market in 2013, the latest Global Salary Survey from recruitment consultancy Robert Walters shows. The survey, covering 24 countries, found that finance directors are expected to... read more

For people who take a glass-half-full view of where the Australian economy is heading, the latest employment figures are good news. The addition of 71,500 net new jobs in February was the strongest monthly result in 13 years and way above most... read more

Employment prospects for finance and accounting professionals in the public sector have dimmed as government departments trim their budgets. Keith Cantlie, chief executive of Canberra, Australia-based recruitment firm Cantlie, says there is still... read more

In the finance and accounting sectors, 2013 will be a year of doing more with less. Fewer employees will be replaced when they leave work, more roles will be consolidated and pay rises will mostly be modest, according to Hudson Salary &... read more

As far as communication coaching goes, much of the focus these days is on how to communicate in the digital realm. Yet the art of verbal communication is still alive and well. If anything, in an era saturated with electronic communications that... read more

With about 200 million professionals on the LinkedIn network, there is no reason why your business shouldn’t be joining the more than 2.6 million companies worldwide with a LinkedIn Company Page. If you haven’t already set one up for... read more

A generation ago, classified ads were the way to find jobs. Then it was online advertising boards. Today, the professional network LinkedIn is widely used by jobseekers and employers alike. Indeed, many vacancies never even make it to market,... read more

It’s hard enough to get the resume right on your home turf – when you apply for a job in another country you’ve got a whole new set of challenges. Not only do you have to consider company culture; you also have to research the... read more

You and your colleagues work long hours. In gratitude, on Valentine’s Day, the company sends a gift to your long-suffering partners as a way of saying thank you. Sound far-fetched? Sydney-based recruitment company TRC Group did just that.... read more

Recruiters who aren’t adding smartphones and tablets to their marketing mix risk losing relevance to job candidates who have ditched computers for handheld devices, says US social recruiting expert Jeremy Langhans. Recently appointed head of... read more

Colourful billionaire Clive Palmer created headlines – and some very happy employees – when he handed out A$10 million worth of gifts to staff at his Townsville nickel refinery in 2010. The rewards included a fleet of 55... read more

Asia has become the world’s hotspot for expatriate wealth. Half of the top 10 preferred expat destinations are in the region, according to HSBC’s Expat Explorer research. This bodes well for the growing Australian populations in these... read more

In today’s digital age, social media platforms are increasingly important as recruitment tools. Unlike other social media we use on a daily basis, however, the purpose of the professional network LinkedIn is to showcase career achievements,... read more

Listen to the podcast.   Opportunities for senior finance leaders are dwindling in Australia according to Peter Antonius, Managing Director of Resources Global Professionals, who sees a shift in senior roles from Australia to Asia. These... read more

If you find that retaining your best staff is an increasingly difficult challenge, you’re not alone. Business leaders everywhere are struggling with the idea that, in spite of the uncertain economic environment, top performers are... read more

There are obvious clues that it’s time to move on from your current position: that gut-churning feeling when Sunday night rolls around and you have to face another Monday; the bullying supervisor who happens to be the cousin of the CEO; or... read more

Bill Tynan is the kind of man who makes other men envious. For a start, he lives in the aptly named Mount Beauty in Australia’s Victorian Alps: surrounded by state forest and overlooking the Kiewa River sits the Bogong Estate Winery that he... read more

Performance reviews are a fact of modern-day work life, even if the jury is out on whether they actually work. Kevin Jarvis, New South Wales director of global recruiting firm Robert Half, says performance reviews work well if done properly.... read more

Australian employees must adapt to new ways of working and forego their attachment to permanent employment to ensure they’ll have a job in 20 years’ time, according to a well-known futurist. Kevin Wheeler, founder and director of the... read more