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[…]
The way we approach financial project value is broken. It’s largely a collection of guesswork, inaccurate numbers and top-down maintenance. As a result, too many projects have failed, are struggling, and nearly all could be improved to find true value. For the past year, we’ve been working on a Project Accounting Framework to change this.[…]
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[…]