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It’s not just management on the run, it’s really poor PR management (if not plain old pig-headed ignorance ) to let the issue play out the way it has , after the fiasco CPA has already had along similar lines with Tyrone “8 days a week” Carlin. They should have been on the front foot on the issue of...

No need to rush. Its not as if they are accountable to anybody !

Hope is not a strategy. Especially when CPA has a majority of disinterested/self-interested members who cannot be arsed to take issue with a leadership group that has been getting rich at their expense for over a decade, and delivering very little in return. And when we have a useless AICD and ASIC ...

I certainly appreciate the articles being posted here, as I don’t have an AFR subscription - thank you

I just hope for the sake of the future of the CPA designation that this AGM vote doesn’t suffer from the low voter turnouts and member apathy of the past that allowed us to get into this mess in the first place. Of which I readily admit I was one. Good luck Brett.

Hubris and arrogance are alive and well at Southbank if Mr Drum thinks his organisation has a shred of credibility or moral compass required to pontificate on board behaviour and ASIC enforcement.

The latest issue of ITB actually , finally , published a letter from a member expressing their disappointment with the past events at CPA Australia, the lack of pursuing accountability, and the need to restore the brand.

Memo to the Editors: too little, too late.

They do not want to uncover anymore skeletons. They do not want any more bad press. They just want to move forward. As I have been saying since the Independent Review Interim Report, and Peter Wilson’s “that’s your problem” utterances....this here is the fatal flaw in the ill-conceived, inwardly-lo...

When there is no accountability and transparency in an accounting organisation, we’re all ****ed. This whole drama to date sends a terrible message to accountants everywhere about how they look at financial and ethical issues in their day to day employment . Why should I be fair and independent ? Ea...

Last time I met Malley, back in about 2015, he told me what a great guy Tyrone Carlin was. Look how great he has proved to be. Great at getting his snout in the trough, but not much else that has been reported. I certainly struggle to find any reporting of his achievements on behalf of CPA members. ...

Go back and look at any past post of mine on the subject. I think I was the first one to raise that a forensic audit should happen AND I asked for one in my first letter to the Board way before Malley was punted (never did get an answer to that letter but I know it was circulated inside CPA) The new...

Well if voting for people who vote for other people works so well why has the Representative Council failed so badly. I am assuming this is not a rhetorical question. The answer seems to be - - the rep council is not elected by Members directly. There is a call for nominations from the divisional c...

I think you are being a bit harsh allseeingeye. Brett, first off let’s not conflate two different issues. As for harsh ....may I suggest recalibrating your harshometer mate! At least I can make my point without having a frothy-mouthed spray at other posters (you may not have seen those , and they a...

If you have a look at the boarding pass it says seat 1c...that is not economy on any qantas flight.. So ms bowen saying it is an economy flight is treating us as idiots :lol: 😈 geoffrt0019 - Would you like to see my two first class international boarding passes from Sydney to Doha with Qatar in Jan...

Gonna frame mine. I have two spare frames with CPA and FCPA toilet paper in them currently; something about “Integrity” written on them but I am not sure what that means anymore.

Why did the old board see the need to rush through a clause right before their term ended last year, a clause allowing for CPA Advice directors to have their legal fees covered by CPA Australia ? Is this because they could see grounds for legal action related to directors duties? Everyway you look a...

Some people have criticised me for not renewing this year , but frankly Joe’s latest missive is exactly what I thought would happen, and I don’t want to be professionally associated with this any longer.. I am glad he has picked up on a point I have made previously - CPA is a relatively low risk bus...

https://www.ifa.com.au/news/18759-accountants-lament-2017-industry-scandals#ccomment-content-18759 Members of the accounting industry have reflected on some of the scandals that have rocked their profession in 2017, with the CPA Australia Advice saga chief among them. ifa sister title Accountants Da...

Grenfell fire: KPMG quits inquiry amid conflict of interest furore http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42598976#share-tools I was about to type “at least some accountants recognise a conflict of interest when they trip over it”. On reading the article again, it of course took activist pressure to do it...

The most charitable thing that I can say about the new Chairman , and indeed the selection committee, is that they are coming across as arrogant fools who are not equipped to manage external relationships with their member base or the public at large. Peter may well have had no contact with Malley i...