One Stop Update for Accountants in the Public Sector 20 April 2009, Wellington. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Statistics; Balance sheets are integrally involved in the greatest economic crisis in our lifetime. So while my remit is to provide the conference with an economic context to its deliberations, I have to engage with accountancy….
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Is the Government tipping the balance away from consumers? Listener: 18 April 2009 Keywords: Business & Finance; Some years ago I was involved in a merger case before the Commerce Commission. The chief executives of the firms involved did not know whether to co-operate, which was the (desired) outcome if the commission…
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Listener: 4 April, 2009. Keywords: Regulation & Taxation; At a recent conference sponsored by the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Taxation Research, the first two expert speakers each had 25 years’ experience in taxation reform, one in Australia, the other New Zealand. But if they haven’t got it right after a combined 50…
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