COVID-19 early thoughts - office real estate market trends and investment considerations
CPA Australia Podcast
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.
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ATO explain their SMSF Auditor 2019 compliance program findings and 2020 focus areas
CPA Australia Podcast
Kellie Grant, Director at the ATO, explains what the ATO has found in its reviews of Self-managed Superannuation Fund (SMSF) auditors in the 2019 compliance program and why many of those SMSF auditors were referred to ASIC. The ATO’s 2019 program focussed on the top 100 auditors and high-risk auditors. Kellie explains what the ATO’s focus is for the 2020 program, along with other audit quality initiatives and targeted compliance programs they are running. This is essential listening not only for SMSF auditors, but also for SMSF trustees, their tax agents and accountants. Guest: Kellie...
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Implementing IFRS 16/AASB 16 Leases: are preparers ready?
CPA Australia Podcast
This week’s episode of the CPA Australia Podcast is a discussion of the preliminary findings from the CPA Australia funded research conducted by University of Melbourne into market-readiness in implementing the new accounting standard AASB 16/IFRS 16 Leases. Listeners may obtain a better understanding of how well the market is adapting to the new accounting standard on leases, some of the challenges associated with its implementation and how these challenges may be overcome. Guest: Professor Michael Davern of the University of Melbourne and Host: Ram Subramanian, Policy Advisor – Reporting...
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Career Skills Revisited: Excel’s functions and features
CPA Australia Podcast
Do you have gaps in your Excel knowledge? Have you missed an INTHEBLACK tutorial in the past 10 years? In this week’s CPA Australia podcast, INTHEBLACK’s Excel expert Neal Blackwood CPA revisits Microsoft Excel’s new functions and features that have come out over the last decade. Learn about the ribbon interface, the customisable quick access toolbar, XLSX and XLSM file types, and more. Listen now.
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Career Skills Revisited: Your Strategic Finance Skills
CPA Australia Podcast
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.
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Small Business Stories: Growing The Gild Group
CPA Australia Podcast
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.
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Understanding ASIC’s report on audit quality measures
CPA Australia Podcast
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.
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Career Skills Revisited – Team building, mentoring & coaching in the workplace
CPA Australia Podcast
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.
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Current and future developments in IFRS
CPA Australia Podcast
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.
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Excel Mini Episode: Data Validation
CPA Australia Podcast
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.
info_outlineA brief discussion of some of the key features of IFRS 9 and what it means for financial statements of entities that are not in the financial services sector.