The response of governments worldwide to the COVID-19 pandemic was strong and swift, with many businesses unprepared for economic lockdown. How can businesses reimagine and reinvent once the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted?
In this podcast episode, Mike Sewell FCPA discusses the types of businesses who have experienced high demand throughout - or due to - the COVID-19 pandemic, and some of the challenges they face. He provides practical ways businesses can manage a temporary spike in demand, and offers lessons other businesses can learn from these high growth businesses. Listen now.
Guest: Mike Sewell FCPA, Business Advisor, The Entrepreneurs’ Programme.
Host: Gavan Ord, Manager – Business and Investment Policy, CPA Australia.
The response of governments worldwide to the COVID-19 pandemic was strong and swift, with many businesses unprepared for economic lockdown. How can businesses best recover in the current climate?
In this podcast episode, Mike Sewell FCPA discusses practical ways businesses who have been, or are about to be, hit by substantial revenue reduction due COVID-19 lockdowns can react. He offers lessons learnt from businesses who have already been through the crisis of their work and clients diminishing, and what businesses can do to prepare and act to ensure survival.
Guest: Mike Sewell FCPA, Business Advisor, The Entrepreneurs’ Programme.
Host: Gavan Ord, Manager – Business and Investment Policy, CPA Australia.
The response of governments worldwide to the COVID-19 pandemic was strong and swift, with many businesses unprepared for economic lockdown. How can businesses best respond to the current climate?
In part one of the Roadmap to Recovery podcast series, Mike Sewell FCPA discusses how businesses have responded to the COVID-19 crisis, and how they are recovering. He provides practical tips to improve the cash position of a business, suggestions for how business should approach the recovery phase, and how to reconsider strategy for the post-COVID-19 environment. Listen now.
Practical tips for tax time, including potential issues around JobKeeper payments, preparing for an earlier tax time & how to manage workflow. Listen now.
Discover how COVID-19 has accelerated projects on central bank digital currencies, including technical design options and the role of the private sector.
Discover what Australia might look like post-pandemic, why accounting skills are crucial, and Salt’s best advice for young professionals. Listen now.
Learn how to charge clients for services, how to assist with JobKeeper, how to segment your client base and how to align staff to communicate consistently.
Discover why the JobKeeper package is a lifesaver for businesses and the economy, the challenges eligible businesses face and how to prepare. Listen now.
In this podcast episode, Claire Braund, co-founder and Executive Director of Women on Boards, shares her incredible career success story. Braund is a social entrepreneur who co-founded Women on Boards in 2006 and has been at the helm of the company ever since, growing it to 22,000 women across Australia from its head office in Gosford on the Central Coast. Braund discusses the challenges she faced in the Board ‘universe’ and how to take that next step in your career to secure a board position. Braund is in conversation with Louise Roberts FCPA, Deputy Chair of the Victorian Women’s CPA Committee.
The CPA Australia Victorian Small & Medium Enterprise Committee brings you a continued discussion on real estate.
This week: current commercial real estate trends and investment considerations along with the impact of COVID-19.
Listen to Bobby Papadopoulos CPA, SME Liaison, who hosts William Young CPA, Head of Australia, China Orient Summit Capital.
Strategic leadership – what is it and can you learn it?
CPA Australia’s ongoing Career Skills Revisited series takes a look back at popular episodes offering useful tips on improving your skills in the workplace. This week: Danette Fenton-Menzies, director of learning at Magical Learning talks about what defines strategic leadership, why it’s so important and the tools you need in terms of support. Listen now.
This brand-new series looks at the opportunities and challenges facing small businesses today. In this week’s episode we hear from Brenton Ellis CPA, Director of Melbourne-based accounting firm The Gild Group. The Gild Group specialises in key industries such as music and entertainment, and has offices in Melbourne and Manila. Ellis shares some of the insights he’s gleaned from changing careers and launching his own firm. Listen to his story.
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has developed a unique report on measures of audit quality in addition to its audit inspection findings. ASIC’s Doug Niven sits down with CPA Australia and explains the measures ASIC has identified and how he expects them to stimulate discussion and evolve over time as data becomes available.
In our ongoing career skills revisited podcast series where we feature an interesting career-based episode you may have missed: Clare Mann, Managing Director of Communicate31, and Tao de Haas, Registered Clinical Psychotherapist, Social Ecologist and Executive Coach, discuss team building, mentoring and coaching in the workplace.
In the first full length CPA Australia Podcast for 2020, hear from IASB Board member Ann Tarca where she and Ram Subramanian, Policy Adviser – Reporting at CPA Australia where they discuss the current and also future developments in IFRS.
In this first mini episode of the CPA Australia Podcast for 2020, Excel expert Neale Blackwood CPA discusses Data Validation. Excel has a built-in Data Validation feature that you can use to limit and control entries that go into certain cells. Hear all about how and why to use this feature in this mini-episode.
ASIC’s audit inspection report found an increase in negative findings and so is commencing new initiatives aimed at improving audit quality. Doug Niven, Senior Executive leader for Financial Reporting and Audit at ASIC, explains to Claire Grayston from CPA Australia the basis of those findings and what ASIC’s new key initiatives involve. Doug also explains why the report now provides greater transparency by including individual results for the “Big 4” firms.
As Fintech plays a significant role in the future of the banking and finance sector, we go behind the scenes in this CPA Australia Podcast episode to speak to two CPAs about what it is like to work for two of the most successful Fintech brands in Australia respectively.
How much influence can directors and audit committees have over the quality of the external audit? Hear how directors can get the most out of their company’s audit from Jacco Moison at the NZ Financial Markets Authority, as he speaks with Claire Grayston from CPA Australia. The FMA has updated Audit Quality – A Director’s Guide which explains the director’s role in influencing audit quality, focussing on FMC reporting entities.
In this podcast episode, Peter Johnson FCPA discusses why he chose to specialise in self-managed super funds (SMSF), what makes them so popular and where he sees the future of accounting heading.
In this podcast episode, Paul Ho FCPA provides an insight into China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA), including the impact of blockchain. Paul discusses his role in the project and how his skills and knowledge as a CPA have helped him get to where he is today.
In this podcast episode, Jacquetta Griggs FCPA discusses the importance of professional development in helping the accounting industry stay ahead of the curve, including how her skills and knowledge as a CPA have helped her get to where she is today.
Following release of the FMA’s Audit Quality Monitoring Report, Jacco Moison highlights the FMA’s key findings in six focus areas as well as auditor independence and the level of non-assurance services being provided to audit clients. The FMA compare the audit quality monitoring findings with their survey of investors on perceptions of audit quality and reflect on the inquiries on audit underway on other jurisdictions.