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THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: SOME ACCOUNTING FEATURES

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. What I am [...]

20th April 2009 | Comments Closed

COMPETING INTERESTS

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 approved the merger, [...]

18th April 2009 | Comments Closed

FAIR MEANS OR FOUL? Discussions about tax reform are ignoring some crucial issues.

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 [...]

4th April 2009 | Comments Closed