Round table puts education at centre of fruitful Asian Century
Date issued: 24 April 2012
Australia's success in realising the opportunities presented by the Asian Century will rest largely on the effectiveness of the education system.
IFRS: Update
Date issued: 5 April 2012
The sixth International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Conference in Malaysia provided an opportunity for international stakeholders, including regulators, standard setting bodies, governments, and CPA Australia to discuss IFRS policy issues.
Business uncertainty an unintended result of Part IVA changes
Date issued: 2 March 2012
Businesses face greater uncertainty and productivity losses as a result of the Australian Government's moves to tighten anti-avoidance provisions in the tax law, CPA Australia has said.
Putting higher education to work
Date issued: 1 March 2012
CPA Australia participated in a higher education seminar organised by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia on Thursday 23 February. The report seminar, Putting Higher Education to Work – Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia, was organised in collaboration with Universiti Tun Abdul Razak and the World Bank to present analytical and policy findings of World Bank's report Putting Higher Education to Work – Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia.
CPA Australia sponsors public sector prize
Date issued: 27 February 2012
CPA Australia congratulates Matt Kendal of the National Water Commission in Canberra, who won the CPA Australia Prize for Leading Public Sector Change at the recent Australia New Zealand School of Government awards ceremony. The ceremony celebrated the outstanding effort of the prize winners.
Start your search engines
Date issued: 27 February 2012
The new search function on the CPA Australia website has gone live, making it easier to get information you need fast.
Tertiary education must raise productivity
Date issued: 21 February 2012
How can we raise productivity and increase prosperity in tertiary education? Leading industry stakeholders keenly debated these topics at a recent Australian Council for Private Education and Training event held in Sydney.
Access economic and political insights for 2012
Date issued: 17 February 2012
CPA Australia is proud to offer its members access to CEDA’s Economic & Political Overview (EPO) for 2012. This pre-eminent publication provides business leaders with an in-depth analysis of Australia’s economic and political environment for the year ahead, with CPA Australia as its National Sponsor.
Risk management and public practice: new standard
Date issued: 30 January 2012
In December 2011, the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board released APES 325 Risk Management for Firms, requiring public practitioners to establish their “risk management framework” by 1 January 2013 (with earlier adoption permitted).
Professional and ethical standards
Date issued: 16 January 2012
Risk management for firms and revised APES 110
The Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board (APESB) has issued APES 325 Risk Management for Firms (PDF) and revised the definition of "public interest entity" in APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (PDF).
INTHEBLACK on twitter
Date issued: 28 November 2011
Follow INTHEBLACK on twitter and ensure you don’t miss a beat from CPA Australia's flagship publication.
Supporting the growth of accounting and auditing in Vietnam
Date issued: 24 November 2011
Robert Thomason, Executive General Manager – Business Development, CPA Australia, recently visited Vietnam to present Recognised Employer Partner certificates to Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Australasian Reporting Awards: entries closing soon
Date issued: 29 November 2011
Receive the recognition your annual report deserves by entering the 2012 Australasian Reporting Awards (ARA). CPA Australia is proud principal sponsor of the ARA awards, with the aim of improving the standard of financial reporting in Australia.
INTHEBLACK wants you
Date issued: 29 November 2011
INTHEBLACK is looking for CPA Australia members to share their experiences and expand on how the CPA designation has assisted them in their career. Members can share their experiences through the following three profiles.
Inaugural award for academics
Date issued: 21 November 2011
CPA Australia congratulates RMIT University and its Cooperative Education Program partners, who were awarded the inaugural CPA Australia and Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-HERT) Excellence in Accounting Teaching Collaboration Award on Thursday10 November. The award recognises partnerships between accounting departments in Australian universities and industry which foster excellence in teaching and improved graduate outcomes.
Code of ethics for accountants: submission
Date issued: 8 November 2011
The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) has issued Exposure Draft Proposed Changes to the Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants Related to Provisions Addressing a Breach of a Requirement of the Code.
Jakarta office now open
Date issued: 7 November 2011
John Cahill FCPA, President, CPA Australia, officially opened CPA Australia’s first office in Indonesia on Monday 31 October.