Before 1956, there was little way for aviation experts to learn from flight accidents except to comb through the wreckage. Enter Dr David Warren who, while working at the Aeronautical Research Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia, invented one of... 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

With the world continuing to battle severe economic headwinds, we’re looking for global and sovereign country leaders to step up their economic and management accountability. While the International Monetary Fund has stressed the importance... read more

By Daniel KahnemanFarrar, Straus and Giroux, A$23Ten years ago Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for economics; the surprising thing is that he is not an economist, but a behavioural psychologist. This book brings together his work in both fields.... read more

Ethics are a core part of a public servant’s job. Whether expressed as a Code of Conduct or Code of Ethics, employees of all Commonwealth and state agencies, of most local governments, of statutory government enterprises and of some tertiary... read more

CPA Australia and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) have renewed their Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) in a move that has reinvigorated cooperation between the two bodies to encourage international take-up of... read more

The 2012 Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) conference runs from 3 - 5 July in Liverpool, England. The conference – which addresses issues around government reporting, auditing, financial management and more... read more