About a year ago, I was invited by Brad Stokes to talk on the Agile Uprising podcast about the criteria of determining whether software (or other intangibles) that you are building is capitalisable. A year on, I find that this question of whether a piece of software is capitalisable is still an enigma to a[…]
It’s interesting for me to reflect on why I decided to learn about Scrum. It was 2015 and I was a fresh AGSM MBA graduate, who got a tap on the shoulder by my then mentor Lourdes Duggineni, who asked me the question every person who completes a major goal in their life should ask[…]
On the 29th June, at 4:30pm, just before the books close for the financial year, I found myself waiting. Then, at nearly 5pm, I receive a flood of information from various stakeholders that affect year end and which was requested earlier in the month. Here is when my stress levels hit the roof and anger[…]
In March, earlier this year, as COVID-19 and its reality was becoming evident, I was at Kev Ryan‘s The Future Advisor conference in Noosa. Almost surreally, as I recall now, we were discussing what and how Accountants need to change to ensure we survive and thrive in the coming storm. And then chaos hit. Within[…]
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been receiving questions around the impact of COVID-19 on projects. As our community grapples with surges in uncertainty and debate, as well as the virus’s flow-on effects – we wanted to share the top 3 topics we’re discussing and how to approach them. (Please note – that just as[…]
Coming up on the 4th May 2020, CA ANZ will be hosting a very different Accounting Conference for the first time – it will be pre-recorded with Live Q&A to follow each talk with any speaker you choose. This kind of intimate approach is exactly what I’d call an agile way to working through our current challenges[…]
Dina Gofman is a lover of the arts and always wanted to support the industry in a much more significant manner. Being an accountant by trade, Dina wanted a calculated and direct impact, and so several years ago when the opportunity to join the Board of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) came[…]
When companies invest in projects that are supposed to reduce the size of their workforce either due to automation or offshoring, the language used often seems somewhat devoid of empathy. Job loss impacts people on a very raw and direct way, and deserves the gravity of being thoroughly considered with the right criteria rather than[…]