 | Key impacts of the 2009 Federal Budget on small and medium sized enterprises
Paul Hockridge, Deloitte partner, will be discussing how Deloitte can help clients understand the impact the 2009 Federal Budget may have on their business. (7 mins 34 secs)
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 | Protecting assets in volatile times
John Downes and Alan Scott, both Deloitte partners, will be discussing what businesses need to do in order to drive best value from their assets. Alan will also touch on what the key areas are that need to be looked at during these volatile times. This podcast will also outline ways to ensure businesses get the best value from their assets. (9 mins 50 secs)
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 | How to Make It New: Fostering a Culture of Innovation in Turbulent Times
Giam Swiegers, chief executive officer, Deloitte Australia, Jim Quigley, chief executive officer, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Ruwayda Ebrahim, partner, Deloitte Southern Africa discuss how organizations looking at long-term sustainability can create a culture of innovation and so develop fresh ideas that create value. (25 mins 13 secs).
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| Managing expectations in volatile times
Alan Scott and John Downes, both Deloitte partners, discuss how these volatile times are affecting staff, customers and financiers. Alan will touch on various ways to drive people to achieve better results in today’s climate. (10 mins 04 secs).
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 | Talking Reward - Managing executive remuneration in volatile times
In this Talking Reward podcast, Stephen Cornwell and Joe Tropeano, leaders of the Deloitte Reward practice here in Australia, discuss the topic of managing remuneration in volatile times. In particular, they discuss how to structure performance-based pay so that it can work in this economic environment and that the same time, address stakeholder issues and expectations. (16 mins 36 secs).
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| Managing costs in volatile times
John Downes and Alan Scott, both Deloitte partners, discuss how growing businesses maintain their bottom line performance by monitoring costs. John will discuss the different types of expenses and some practical ways businesses can better manage their costs in today’s climate. (9 mins 20 secs).
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| Talking reward - driving cost efficiencies in remuneration
In this Talking Reward podcast, Stephen Cornwell and Joe Tropeano, leaders of the Deloitte Reward practice here in Australia, discuss the topic of driving cost efficiencies in executive remuneration and the strategies companies can put into place to achieve this goal. (12 mins 16 secs).
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| Protecting your revenue in volatile times
John Downes and Alan Scott, both Deloitte partners, discuss how growing businesses need to protect their revenue during the current volatile times. John will also outline practical ways businesses can ensure they manage their cash flow and some overall tips to remain competitive. (11 mins 10 secs).
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| Talking Reward - Restoring faith in executive pay
In this Talking Reward podcast, Stephen Cornwell and Joe Tropeano, leaders of the Deloitte Reward practice here in Australia, discuss the issue of restoring faith in executive remuneration. In particular, they examine current stakeholder views and guidelines on remuneration and remuneration models used by companies and organisations. (15 mins 38 secs).
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| The devil is in the delivery: implications of the CPRS for the E&R sector
In this podcast Michael Rath, head of Deloitte’s Energy Industry Group speaks with former CEO of esaa and APPEA, Keith Orchison, about the implications and imperatives for the energy sector under the Federal Government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. (21 mins 57 secs).
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| Innovating for new revenue and efficiencies
In this podcast, Jenny Wilson, who heads up Deloitte’s Innovation Services, talks with Deloitte’s David Pring about the value innovation brings to business in these critical times. They also introduce the new Deloitte Innovation Academy series.. (10 mins 3 secs).
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| Self Organising Maps: Does your methodology give you “the whole picture”?
Deloitte Principal, Matt Kuperholz, says that identifying and analysing key clusters of behaviour within large amounts of data can be significantly restricted by methodology (7 mins 33 secs).
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| Analytic Insights: Bringing business insights through analytic investigation
How do businesses derive the insight they need from the financial data to make fast and accurate business decisions? Deloitte Director, Blair Richards, helps companies get the right data to the right person at the right time. This means companies can then spend more time where it is really needed – in analysing and interpreting their information. (10 mins 56 secs)
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 | Deregulation of Victoria's retail energy
Analytic The Victorian Minister for Energy, the Hon Peter Batchelor, discusses the deregulation of the state’s retail energy market with Deloitte’s Energy lead partner Michael Rath, and the Executive Director of the Energy Retailers Association of Australia, Cameron O’Reilly. (16 mins 3 secs)
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| Converting data into action
Analytic Insights Partner, Dale Deluca, says the challenge for most large organisations is creating actionable insights from a vast volume of data. Listen to his podcast discussing how Deloitte helped a client create competitive advantage in credit processing. (9 mins 6 secs)
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| Talking reward - the new realities of performance-based pay
In this Talking Reward podcast, Jonathan Finlay and Stephen Cornwell, Deloitte Reward partners, look at what companies are doing about their compensation programs in this volatile market. They discuss how they can put more rigour behind the selection and calibration of performance metrics linked to pay. (10 mins 55 secs)
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| Talking reward - don't leave executive compensation risks to chance
In this Talking Reward podcast, Stephen Cornwell and Joe Tropeano, leaders of the Deloitte Reward practice here in Australia, discuss how companies can manage the governance and reputational risks inherent in communicating with stakeholders, and the market at large, around director and executive compensation. (9 mins 17 secs)
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| From finance to leadership
Peter Scott, Chairman of the board of Sinclair Knight Merz, Director on the boards of Stockland and Perpetual speaks about the path that CFOs need to take to transition into CEOs or board members. (18 mins 25 secs)
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| What will be the cost of not knowing?
Make the most of existing data assets in volatile times says Anthony Viel, Deloitte’s Analytic Insights partner in this 14 minute podcast discussion with Partner Mark Woodley. (14 mins 22 secs)
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| Mastering finance in government
A new Deloitte global study shows that the demands being placed on public sector finance departments have changed, creating an opportunity to operate at a more strategic level and drive the change agenda. Donal Graham, Deloitte Consulting partner reviews the findings and implications of the study. (8 mins 40 secs)
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| Venturous Australia – building strength in innovation
How government and business need to invest in, renew, re-imagine and restart innovation in Australia is the topic of the radical report - Venturous Australia – discussed here by author and National Innovation Review Chairman Dr Terry Cutler and Gerhard Vorster Managing Partner Consulting and leader of Innovation at Deloitte. (15 mins 51 secs)
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| The new security paradigm
Listen to Adel Melek, Deloitte Global Leader in Security and Privacy Services, discuss with Tommy Viljoen, Head of Deloitte Australia Security and Privacy practice, the emerging security paradigm. (20min 30 sec)
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| What keeps a good Chief Financial Officer awake at night?
Being responsible for one of the biggest Government budgets in Australia may keep some people awake at night, but not Ken Dixon. Listen as the Chief Financial Officer of New South Wales Department of Education and Training discusses how he deals with some of the big challenges facing his Department. (24 min 58 sec)
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| Multi-channel marketing: building customer relevancy
In this podcast Kasey Lobaugh, US Head of Multi-channel retail and Jenny Wilson, Partner Eclipse discuss the Australian Retail environment. Kasey speaks about his experience in multi-channel retail in America and his understanding of the Australian market. (11 min 18 sec)
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| Innovation beyond new inventions
In this podcast Gerhard Vorster, Managing Partner Deloitte Consulting, Narelle Kennedy, Chief Executive of the Australian Business Foundation and Dr James Bradfield Moody, General Manager, International Development for CSIRO discuss ‘the next wave’ of innovation: ‘Beyond New Inventions’. (19 min 9 sec)
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| Justifying executive compensation in the current environment
Chris Biermann, one of Deloitte’s Assurance & Advisory Partners, talks with Alexandra Moule, a Senior Associate with commercial law firm Freehills, about the current environment in which companies have to prepare a remuneration report and the key messages that companies should consider in framing their reports. (9 min 11 sec)
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| Professional services available online
Peter Williams, CEO of Deloitte Digital, talks to Michael Tarlinton about Deloitte Digital and how Deloitte is pioneering the delivery of professional services online. (8 min 29 sec)
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| ASIC’s perspective on the credit crunch and June financial reporting – an interview with Doug Niven
Debbie Hankey talks with Doug Niven, Deputy Chief Accountant with ASIC, about the upcoming June reporting season, including the financial reporting implications of the global credit crunch and ASIC's key focus areas. (18 minutes 37 seconds)
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| Simplifying tax: Reducing the tax burden on small to medium-sized enterprises
In this podcast Ali Noroozi, Tax Counsel for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and Alexis Kokkinos, Deloitte Tax Partner, discuss their joint entity flow-through report and the solution to the complexities and compliance costs of the taxation regime for small business it offers. (10 min 3 sec)
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| The state of Australia's superannuation industry since RSE licensing
Deloitte partner Richard Rassi and Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia’s Head of Audit, Andrew Stringer, discuss the issues raised by their survey of governance practices in Australia’s $1.2 trillion superannuation industry. (13 min 31 sec)
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| AASB 7 – a trap for young players?
Darryn Rundell, one of Deloitte’s Accounting Technical Partners, talks with Richard Hayes, Senior Manager Financial Reporting Global Markets at ANZ, about the challenges and practical considerations of adopting AASB 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures. (12 min 47 sec)
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| The IFRS experiment – comparing and contrasting the Australian and European perspectives
Bruce Porter talks with Stig Enevoldsen, Chairman of the Technical Expert Group of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG), about the experience with IFRS in Europe and Australia and the key IFRS challenges moving forward. (17 min 56 sec)
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| Talking reward: Remuneration benchmarking - the tricks & traps
Joe Tropeano and Stephen Cornwell are joined for the first time by Sydney-based partner Jonathan Finlay to discuss the topical issue of benchmarking executive remuneration. (11 min 10 sec)
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| Industry Associations can help members achieve AML/CTF compliance
Philip Joe-Low, Marketing Director for Deloitte’s online anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing tool, discusses the challenges and opportunities for industry associations in helping their members achieve compliance with the new AML/CTF legislation. (14 min 43 sec)
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| Key issues facing the global energy and resources industry
Phil Hopwood, leader for Deloitte Australia’s energy, infrastructure & resources team and Chris Nicholson, Deloitte’s global leader for energy and resources discuss the key issues facing the global energy and resources industry, and predictions and forecasts for the future. (12 min 10 sec)
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| Talking reward – what’s in store for incentive pay design?
Listen to Stephen Cornwell and Joe Tropeano, Deloitte Reward Partners, discuss where incentive pay design is heading in Australia and how performance alignment is driving this change. (17 min 30 sec)
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| How will the new business combination accounting requirements affect you?
Deloitte partners Stephen Ferris and Debbie Hankey discuss the recent amendments made by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to accounting for mergers, acquisitions and similar transactions and what C-level executives need to do to prepare for the changes. (12 min 10 sec)
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 | South Dragons go green with Deloitte
In this entertaining podcast Duncan Buckeridge, Deloitte’s Sustainability Services partner chats with Ryan Gardiner, General Manager of the South Dragons and Ron Loborec, Deloitte ERS partner leading the carbon footprint audit. (21 min 19 sec)
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 | Internal and external financing
Craig Holland, Tax partner of Deloitte’s middle market division presents the final of an eight-part series about the Art of Business Succession. Craig discusses internal and external financing options to enable a succession plan to become a reality. (11 min 00 sec)
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 | Talking reward - executive remuneration: the governance debacle
Joe Tropeano and Stephen Cornwell, Deloitte Rewards partners discuss what they see as the governance debacle unfolding around executive remuneration which has been witnessed during AGM season. (16 min 54 sec)
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| | A new direction for the NSW power sector?
Ron Loborec, head of Deloitte’s Energy, Infrastructure & Resources industry team talks to Tony Owen, Professor of Energy Economics at Curtin University about the options considered and recommendations made in his report to the NSW Government into future additional electricity supply in NSW. (17 min 28 sec)
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 | e-Health: Benefits and challenges
Alan Eckstein and Adam Powick, partners in Deloitte Consulting have a discussion with Andrew Howard, CIO of the Victorian Department of Human Services, about the topical subject of e-Health. What is e-Health? What does it mean for consumers? What are the challenges? (16 min 57 sec)
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| | The role of the adviser
Craig Holland, Tax partner of Deloitte’s middle market division, discusses the different roles advisers can have to help anticipate and identify potential problems which may otherwise be overlooked. (5 mins 9 sec)
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| | Talking reward – remuneration and the critical workforce
Joe Tropeano and Stephen Cornwell, Deloitte Reward Partners, discuss the importance of aligning the remuneration strategy to attract, retain and engage the critical workforce with the greatest impact on shareholder value. (10 mins 52 sec)
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 | Using SMS technology for school communication
Listen to Deloitte Corporate Finance Partner, David Hill speak with MGM Wireless CEO, Mark Fortunatow about the overseas legislation that has contributed to the success of his firm's specialisation; helping schools improve their communication to parents by text messaging. (11 mins 03 sec)
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 | B-free's road to success
Listen to Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 program partner Julia Bickerstaff speak with B-free's Managing Director, Jeff Rogers and CEO, Lisa Fletcher. They discuss the value of alliances and partnerships, as well as how awards such as the Deloitte Rising Star award has helped them on their road to success. (16 mins 25 sec)
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 | Michele Timms talks tactics, team preparation and top competition…
To mark the launch of the 2007/2008 NBL season, basketball legend Michele Timms chats to Melbourne sporting personality Glenn Manton. (28 mins 45 sec)
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| | Family dynamics and governance
Craig Holland, Tax partner of Deloitte’s middle market division talks to John Downes, Deloitte Growth Solutions partner about the dynamics at work that, if managed properly, have the potential to elevate family harmony and the legacy to new heights or, if ignored, to unravel the business. (9 mins 28 sec)
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| | Growing Unwired
In part one of our Technology Fast 50 podcast series, Julia Bickerstaff, Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Leader speaks with David Spence, CEO Unwired about the growth of the company over the last few years and the challenges David sees ahead. (6 mins 53 sec)
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| | Talking Reward – Reward Governance, a continuing focus
Listen to Joe Tropeano and Stephen Cornwell, Deloitte Reward Partners, discuss the implications of recent amendments to the ASX Corporate Governance Principles for future executive remuneration design. (11 mins 52 sec)
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.jpg) | Another shakeup in financial reporting – the AASB’s differential reporting proposals
Listen to Melissa Perry and Stephen Gustafson discuss the Australian Accounting Standards Board’s proposals around a revised differential reporting regime and the possible introduction of an ‘IFRS for SME’ Standard in Australia. (24 mins 26 sec)
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 | Economic and trade sanctions – the cost of international business
Graham Dillon and Julie Beesley discuss the increasing reach of global regulators and practical ways that Australian organisations can avoid becoming enmeshed in costly disputes. (13 mins 24 sec)
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| | Tax issues in business succession
Craig Holland talks to John Downes, Deloitte Growth Solutions partner about the different taxes that can apply throughout a business succession. (9 mins 24 sec)
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 | ASX Corporate Governance Principles
Listen to Deloitte partner, Craig Mitchell, and Eric Mayne, Chair, ASX Corporate Governance Council, discuss the revised ASX Corporate Governance Principles and how they will impact your company. (34 mins 14 sec)
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 | Optimising offshoring operations
Listen to Deloitte partners, Warren Green and Fraser Ross, and Commonwealth Bank’s Chief Information Officer, Michael Harte discuss issues facing Australian financial institutions in the offshoring debate. (32 mins 33 sec)
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| | Talking Reward – retention, the forgotten aspect of reward
Listen to Joe Tropeano and Stephen Cornwell, Deloitte’s Reward Partners, discuss how companies are recognising that retention is just as important as rewarding for performance. (10 mins 47 sec)
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| | Legacy
Craig Holland talks to John Downes about fostering the business legacy, with emphasis on management development, ownership transfer techniques and shareholder agreements.
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 | Innovation – the catalyst for growth
Listen to Serg Duchini speak with Professor Robin Batterham about the importance of innovation and some of the practical issues associated with fostering innovation in an organisation. (15 mins 46 sec)
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 | Green light for a further round of energy industry reform?
Deloitte energy markets leader Patricia Boyce talks with Bill Scales, AO, chairman of the recent Energy Reform Implementation Group. (12 mins 33 sec)
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| | Personal wealth management
Craig Holland talks to John Downes about the impact succession plans will have on business owners’ personal financial situation and the financial condition of other key stakeholders. (9 mins 3 sec)
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 | Learnings on fraud
Listen to Frank O'Toole and Holly Tucker discuss their experiences in relation to global fraud and corruption. (17 mins 27 sec)
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 | Innovation and creativity
Damien Tampling and Liz Ann McGregor discuss the parallels that exist in the world of art and the corporate world. (20 mins 25 sec)
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 | Fraud and corruption control programs
Listen to Holly Tucker, Deloitte Forensic Manager, as she explains the importance of fraud and corruption control programs in the workplace environment. (14 mins 12 sec)
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| | Supply chain integrity risks
Frank O'Toole and Nick Robinson, Forensic China practice leader, discuss the supply chain integrity risks affecting Australian businesses that operate offshore, especially in China. (14 mins 10 secs)
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| | Talking Reward – how private equity activity is affecting remuneration
Listen to Joe Tropeano and Stephen Cornwell, Deloitte’s Reward Partners discuss how the rising level of private equity activity is impacting the way remuneration is packaged. (10 mins 51 secs)
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| | Business continuity and growth
Craig Holland, Tax partner of our middle market division talks to John Downes about the various elements that are to be incorporated into an overall succession plan. (7 mins 11 secs)
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 | Identity fraud
John Alfano, Deloitte Forensic Director explains the trends and issues facing companies around identity fraud. (16 mins 45 secs)
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 | Superannuation - part two
Listen to Andy Briggs, Superannuation specialist, discuss some of the main changes and opportunities for contributing money into superannuation under the transitional rules only available to 30 June 2007 and other important issues. (17 mins 33 secs)
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 | Whistleblowing hotline
Hugh Mosley, Deloitte Forensic partner, discusses the importance of a whistleblowing hotline in the workplace and what to look for when choosing a provider. (13 mins 26 secs)
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 | Managing fraud and other misconduct
Kelvin Kenney, a Director in our investigations team discusses the ways to manage fraud and other misconduct as well as preventative action to reduce fraud risk. (14 mins 6 secs)
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| | The art is in the planning
Craig Holland, Tax partner of Deloitte’s middle market division, discusses the issues surrounding succession planning such as why you need one and the importance of goal-setting. (7 mins 56 secs)
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 | Fostering organisational innovation
Listen to John Meacock, Managing Partner NSW, and Jenny Wilson, an Eclipse partner, who is leading Deloitte’s innovation push, talk about it here! (16 mins 53 secs)
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| | International bribery and corruption
Listen to Frank O’Toole, Investigations & Risk Partner at Deloitte Forensic discuss with Holly Tucker, Forensic Manager why Australia needs to heighten awareness in this space now. (17 mins 06 secs)
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 | Global asset management industry outlook
Listen to Sarah Woodhouse, our lead wealth management partner and unit pricing specialist, Andy Young, discuss the issues faced by the wealth management sector in Australia. (19 mins 08 secs)
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 | Global banking industry outlook
Listen to Gerry Schipper, our lead banking partner and Bob Contri, Deloitte's global financial services consulting partner discuss banking and asset management. (15 mins 12 secs)
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| | Reality of innovation - unzipped
Julia Bickerstaff, Deloitte Growth Solutions Partner and Narelle Kennedy, Chief Executive of Australian Business Foundation ‘unzip’ innovation in the Australian middle market. (13 mins 12 secs)
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 | Serving the ageing citizen – a conversation looking at the issues of an ageing population
Listen to Julie Priest, partner of health and life sciences and Greg Pellegrino, Deloitte’s global managing director for the public sector, discuss Australia's ageing population. (18 mins 20 secs)
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 | Strategic Plans – should I have one and why?
Hear Tim Gullifer, Growth Solutions partner and John Downes, Growth Solutions director discuss how strategic plans can be common sense guides for fast growing businesses. (6 mins 42 secs)
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 | JPMorgan Deloitte General Insurance Industry Survey
Paul Franks, Partner, Financial Services and Elaine Collins, Partner, Trowbridge Deloitte, bring to life the results of the 2006 JP Morgan Deloitte General Insurance survey. (15 mins 22 secs)
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| | Superannuation - part one
Listen to Andy Briggs, Superannuation specialist, discuss some of the main changes and opportunities arising from the far reaching changes currently before Parliament. (9mins 51 secs)
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| | The nuclear option - a conversation with Ziggy Switkowski
Listen to our National Leader for Energy Infrastructure and Resources, Ron Loborec talk with Dr Ziggy Switkowski regarding climate change and nuclear power as one of a range of alternative energy sources for Australia. (32mins 31 secs)
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| | AMLcheck™
Listen to General Manager of AMLcheck™, John Alfano, as he discusses why small and mid tier organisations need to be concerned about AML compliance. (7mins 32 secs)
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 | 10 key lessons from overseas AML/CTF project implementation
Chris Cass, Forensic AML partner, will take you through the key lessons he has learnt from his experiences overseas in AML/CTF implementation. (17 mins 15 secs)
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| | AML/CTF reforms - managing shareholder value
Chris Cass, Forensic AML partner, discusses the value of AML/CTF programs to organisations. Listen and learn about who will have an interest in the effect of these programs. (10 mins 2 secs)
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