Category law
Australia: Greenhouse gas emissions data available
On 26 February 2016 the Australian Clean Energy Regulator released the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) data for 2014-15. Australian corporations that meet certain thresholds are required to report annually on their emissions and energy consumption to the Clean Energy Regulator. While about 60 per cent of Australia’s total emissions are said to be reflected […]
Company Board Composition: Gender as Diversity
Posturing about the balance between men and women on company Boards continues. The European Union is taking the matter seriously at last. The European Parliament is pressing ahead, with proposals which might become law, to enforce a 40% quota for female non-executive directors on the Boards of large companies. Its aim is to improve the […]
Reducing the gap between practice and academia – the Chinese solution
Considerable effort is spent on making the messages of academic work understandable to non-academics who are not privy to the languages academics need to use to stay in the academic hierarchy. In accounting, Singleton-Green revved up the debate in an article ‘..why doesn’t accounting research make a greater contribution to debates on accounting policy?’ Kaplan […]
When do you ditch a strategic partner? Universities, lawyers, auditors and accountants please note.
The sanctity of free speech by academics has yet again been challenged reports David Mathews in “University of Warwick gags critic of ‘authoritarian’ sector”, the Times Higher Education, 19 June 2014. The University of Warwick seems to be more than lethargic in its communication process in relation to a professor allegedly prevented from speaking at […]
Roger Burritt 