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24 Feb 2020 Small business

Podcasts have become one of the most popular ways for people to stay abreast of trends and issues while building their base of specialist knowledge. They have the advantage of offering analysis and insights in accessible form – even while travelling, driving or commuting.

Opening the vault on Excel, part 8

Excel expert Neale Blackwood CPA began writing his monthly Excel Yourself column in INTHEBLACK magazine in 2002. He recently “opened the vault” on those early articles to review the information and add newer and easier solutions or built-in functions. This month: Contents sheets, General Purpose Macros and more.

10 Feb 2020 Excel Yourself

Singapore’s Budget 2020 is focused on assisting business and the broader community to manage the immediate challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Singapore Budget seeks transformation and growth through partnerships

The Singapore government has unveiled a budget for 2020 that is not only focused on assisting business and the broader community manage the impacts of the coronavirus, but also seeks to enable Singapore’s transformation and growth through stronger partnerships, deepening enterprise capabilities and developing the people.

18 Feb 2020 BUDGET 2020 Economics

9 brilliant business ideas for 2020

Short on inspiration? Check out these 9 ideas to jumpstart your creative thinking in the workplace.

12 Feb 2020 Workplace Technology

Can we measure wellbeing and happiness and apply those measures to public policy, and how much of a change can a wellbeing perspective make to the world?

01 Feb 2020 Economics

How to measure the economics of happiness

Measuring economic policies by their effect on total wellbeing might make people's lives better - but a great many politicians will need convincing.

Financial abuse is a hidden and subtle form of family violence that often has dire consequences for its victims.

The accountant's role in stamping out financial abuse

It's concealed, insidious, has the power to destroy lives and is always intentional. How do accountants recognise financial abuse, and when they do, what can be done?

01 Feb 2020 Accounting INPRACTICE

Hong Kong’s skyline shrouded in a thick haze of pollution, October 2018.

ESG on the radar

Regulators continue to debate the tax treatment of digital currencies, while governments wrestle with how the public sector should report and be audited.

01 Feb 2020 Economics Accounting

A CPA Australia submission to the IASB calls for formal guidance and illustrative examples on how lease incentives should be dealt with under IFRS 16.

Understanding lease incentives

Lease incentives take many forms, and that's causing some confusion for practitioners applying the new accounting standard on leasing.

01 Feb 2020 Accounting

Work Smart

One thing all the scientists agree on is that our brains aren’t designed to handle more than one task at a time.

01 Feb 2020 Workplace

Why deep focus, not multitasking, should be your mantra

The pace and pressure of work have turned us all into multitaskers. However, studies suggest this is an inefficient way of working. So how can we create a culture of deep focus?