Hear from two experts as they discuss how to find opportunities and what skills and qualities you need to be appointed to a board. Listen now.
Discover a fascinating discussion with Kris Fothergill FCPA and his colleague, covering tips for working remotely and how to combine work and adventure.
Meet singer-songwriter and entrepreneur Holly Rankin, who tells you how she works with her accountant to grow her businesses and career. Listen now.
Discover how cloud technology for audit is evolving, the tools available, and the potential challenges of implementing a cloud system. Listen now.
Join our policy experts for a discussion of the budget papers, covering implications for the accounting profession and more. Listen now.
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Knowing what a cell contains can be useful when developing your formulas. Excel has a collection of IS functions that can help.
Join our expert guest to get an inside view to the Aged Care Royal Commission, plus key changes you should be prepared for. Listen now.
Dynamic charts allow the user to make selections that are automatically updated in the chart. In this Podcast episode Neale Blackwood CPA, examine how to use range names to convert a static chart in a dynamic one.
As part of our Career Skills Revisited re-release podcast series, learn what it takes to land a Board role in your career by hearing the stories and lessons from Claire Braund, co-founder and Executive Director of Woman on Boards.
Join our guests to learn how they have used accounting and finance skills to grow their careers in both accounting and other roles. Listen now.
Join our experts as they discuss why transfer pricing seems to be a perennial risk for the ATO, and how you should respond to a risk review. Listen now.
Hear from ASIC’s Chief Accountant on the key findings from ASIC's audit inspection report. Listen now.
Slicers are an easy-to-use filter interface for pivot tables. In this podcast episode that is part of the Excel Yourself series, Neale Blackwood CPA will take us through about how to use slicers on formatted tables in Microsoft Excel.
In this podcast episode, our expert guests discuss the findings from the report, plus explain the directors’ and audit committees’ roles in audit quality. Listen now.
Our expert guests use current real-life cyber insurance claims to demonstrate the risks faced by public practitioners. Listen now.
Discover how e-invoicing will help your business grow faster, covering improved transparency and efficiency, fewer errors, cash flow benefits, and more.
Discover how to work with the ATO on complex issues, covering the risks of being unprepared for compliance activity and when to seek expert assistance.
Part of our Excel Yourself series about skills you should know in Microsoft Excel for your day to day use. In this episode learn about small data sets. Excel is not a database, but it can handle small datasets. These can be useful for data that isn’t available in existing databases, but is still required for reports or dashboards. This podcast looks at how to convert a data entry layout that is easy to input, into a layout that works best with PivotTables and other reports. The solution uses Power Query and is very flexible.
In our ongoing series of podcasts about Microsoft Excel, did you know you can create your own functions in Excel? In this podcast we look at three functions (called User Defined Functions or UDF’s) that you can create to improve Excel’s functionality. One function returns the username. The next determines if a cell contains a date. The last function allows you to split text and extract specific entries based on a delimiter character. This is handy for codes that have a set structure.
As accounting firms embrace digital transformation, the new technologies are changing the skills early-career accountants need to succeed. Our guests discuss the findings from a research report, revealing five ways technology is changing accounting skills. Listen now.
In this re-release episode, originally released in July 2020, Simon Eassom discusses how having a micro-credential on your resume demonstrates specialised skills that employers can trust. He covers why you’ll start to see the rise of importance of micro-credentials in our education system, why they give an employer a third-party validation of your skills, and why micro-credentials can fill a skills gap from entry level to the C-suite.
Join two experts to discover which components of annual reports users consider important, and the key decisions they make from the report. Listen now.
Using current professional indemnity insurance claims as examples, in this podcast episode Drew Fenton CPA and Kevin Nhan discuss the risks public practitioners face if they operate outside of their mandate and areas of expertise.
Guest: Kevin Nhan, Service Manager, Professional Lines Claims, QBE
Host: Drew Fenton CPA, Managing Director, Fenton Green and co
In this podcast episode, you’ll hear from Doug Niven, ASIC’s chief accountant, on their approach to regulation and support in the COVID-19 environment. Niven will discuss ASIC’s focus areas for financial reporting in the current economic environment, as well as their frequently asked questions, to assist preparers and auditors tackle some of the challenges that could arise from COVID-19 related impacts. Listen now.