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David Walker

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Corporate governance's new trend: profit over planet - publicaccountant.com.au

Corporate governance's new trend: profit over planet - publicaccountant.com.au

Institute of Public Accountants — The focus of corporate governance appears to be shifting in response to tough conditions, with social licence to operate no longer the main priority for boards.
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Some philosophy is probably fraud; let's try to find it

Some philosophy is probably fraud; let's try to find it

Club Troppo — If scientific fraud represents five per cent of scientific papers, we might well expect that we have a great deal of philosophic fraud as well. But in philosophy, how can we detect the fraudsters? ...
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Future Made in Australia: Will it make Australian manufacturing great again? - publicaccountant.c...

Future Made in Australia: Will it make Australian manufacturing great again? - publicaccountant.c...

Institute of Public Accountants — The Federal Government's $22.7 billion Future Made in Australia program has been lauded for its ambition and attacked for a lack of accountability. We find out whether it will revive Australian manufacturing.
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The Rise of The CEO's Chief of Staff

The Rise of The CEO's Chief of Staff

The CEO Magazine (Australia) — The Rise of The CEO's Chief of Staff
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Shorewalker DMS - Why reports matter

Shorewalker DMS - Why reports matter

shorewalker.net — This episode of the Shorewalker On Reports podcast looks at a foundational question: why do we bother to create public reports at all?
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Shorewalker DMS - Paul Cairney's Law: Everyone ignores information

Shorewalker DMS - Paul Cairney's Law: Everyone ignores information

shorewalker.net — Professor Paul Cairney says that even when we produce solutions to complex problems, our biggest problem is often getting people to really notice those answers.
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What the Nobel Prize tells us about economics * David Walker

What the Nobel Prize tells us about economics * David Walker

Inside Story — This year's winner is another challenge to critics of the youngest of the prizes
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The Gruen transformation: How the Australian Statistician is reshaping data, insights and policy-...

The Gruen transformation: How the Australian Statistician is reshaping data, insights and policy-...

Institute of Public Accountants — ABS chief David Gruen used COVID to create great change, gathering new data and uniting data from other sources, to enable insights that inform policy.
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The mark of a taxman

The mark of a taxman

Institute of Public Accountants — Ten years into the job, Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan has just unveiled his vision for a technology-driven future and, when it comes to critics of the ATO, remains as animated as ever. In early September 2022, COVID finally found Chris Jordan. Australia's twelfth Tax Commissioner had been going i
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Glad tidings for 2018

Glad tidings for 2018

The CEO Magazine (Australia) — The Christmas season reminds Christians and non-Christians alike to give thanks for the year at its close. And despite what is frequently claimed, the global population lives in what looks like the best of times.
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Chris Jordan's Tax Office - The Big End of Town and beyond

Chris Jordan's Tax Office - The Big End of Town and beyond

Acuity Magazine — Anyone who accepts the job of tax commissioner will face doubters. When Chris Jordan FCA took the role in 2012, he recalls with a grin: "I had a lot of friends and colleagues quite helpfully saying: 'Are you mad?
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Sahil Merchant - from Mag Nation to McKinsey

Sahil Merchant - from Mag Nation to McKinsey

INTHEBLACK — Sahil Merchant's entrepreneurial skills were sharpened by his experience at Mag Nation. Now at McKinsey, he's at the leading edge of its new style of management consulting. By David Walker Sahil Merchant's entrepreneurial streak may have its roots in early misfortune.
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Beyond the GFC - Where to next

Beyond the GFC - Where to next

Acuity Magazine — In 2008, economic historian Niall Ferguson wrote and presented a television show about how finance had evolved up to the global financial crisis -"an explanation of the crisis disguised as a financial history of the world", as he calls it.
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Seven ways to retain what you read

Seven ways to retain what you read

Acuity Magazine — Experts say the trick to remembering what you've read is to practise recalling it on demand. Pamela Paul, editor of the prestigious New York Times Book Review, recently revealed an all-too-believable truth about her inexact memories of what she has read in books. "I remember the book itself," she told The Atlantic.
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Catching up on intangibles

Catching up on intangibles

Acuity Magazine — There are things that can drop on your foot: anvils, skyscraper girders, motherboards, to name a few. And then there are things that can't, such as the Game of Thrones plot, the workforce's training in the Toyota Production Method, and your company's research and development.
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Blockchain technology - can it really deliver?

Blockchain technology - can it really deliver?

INTHEBLACK — The slow progress with blockchain technology has led to doubts about whether it will ever deliver on its promise. Its advocates remain convinced that blockchain will perform valuable roles, but its critics are questioning its value and saying there are better, faster options.
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What about Theranos?

What about Theranos?

The CEO Magazine (Australia) — It's now more than a year since Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was indicted on 11 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. And now her business career has been set out in a new documentary movie, The Inventor, we can draw some tentative conclusions about the Theranos collapse.
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The stranger things that threaten Netflix

The stranger things that threaten Netflix

The CEO Magazine (Australia) — Is there a more admirable recent business triumph than Netflix? Founder Reed Hastings built a video distribution empire by using a subscription model for DVD rentals. Then, around 2010, he destroyed that video business, along with everyone else's, by jumping to streaming just at the right moment.
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5 things to do in root cause analysis

5 things to do in root cause analysis

Acuity Magazine — STORY David Walker ILLUSTRATION James Hancock The discipline of asking why is at the core of root cause analysis. BDO Australia's national leader for audit quality, Jane Bowen CA, says the key lesson of her time using the technique is "not to stop too soon". Practitioners must "get beneath the surface level reasons," she says.
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Trade policy: Global prosperity might be at stake this month

Trade policy: Global prosperity might be at stake this month

The CEO Magazine (Australia) — Look, this column's about trade policy. Sorry. Trade's a tough subject, devoid of jokes or even mildly amusing anecdotes. If you want to skip to something about stand-up comedians, I won't blame you. On the other hand, if you didn't click the comedian link yet, here's the thing: trade underlies most human prosperity.
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Why MAGA may save the 2024 Moon bid

Why MAGA may save the 2024 Moon bid

The CEO Magazine (Australia) — Next month, we will celebrate 50 years since people first walked on the Moon. The event is probably the third most important in the history of space exploration - behind Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin's flight - but its US origins and ready supply of images make it the most celebrated.
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Digital tax: what happens when the taxman takes on the cloud?

Digital tax: what happens when the taxman takes on the cloud?

INTHEBLACK — As digital businesses grow globally, individual countries are seeking to tax either the profits or the turnover generated within their own borders – and that’s where the international tax arguments begin.
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Election pundits: Time to learn more about polls

Election pundits: Time to learn more about polls

The CEO Magazine (Australia) — "Polling is broken." That was the heading on an Australian newspaper article by pollster John Utting, a few days after the Australian election that everyone so famously failed to predict. "Should anyone trust a political poll ever again?" That was a post-election headline in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Australian Election 2019: How to keep your perspective

Australian Election 2019: How to keep your perspective

The CEO Magazine (Australia) — Australians have entered the world of the Post-Election and it's a weird place to loiter; gangs of Coalition supporters dancing on the ceiling in their RM Williams boots; bitter clusters of Labor and Greens voters tweeting that Australians are a hopeless, rotten mob. It's not pretty.
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