New Zealand will not be allowed access to Kyoto-based carbon credits – including certified emission reduction units (CERs) – from 2015.
In December, the COP 18 meeting voted to exclude New Zealand, Canada and Japan from access to the units after all three countries said they would not sign up to the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
And meanwhile, from Deloitte NZ’s just-reported NZ Human Capital Survey, Talent Edge NZ: • Overall, special programmes for attraction, retention and engagement of diverse groups are not common, but most
“New Zealand has been one of the easiest places in the world to incorporate company online,” says DLA Phillips Fox in recent newsletter summarising some key changes to company incorporation.
Despite growing calls from China-based organisations for overseas firms to settle trade in the Chinese currency, the renminbi (RMB), most New Zealand businesses remain firmly wedded to other currencies. Noel
It warms the cockles to see Northland cruise operator Fullers investing in research to discover that stressed-out Auckland workers would like Friday afternoons off to get headstart in the northbound
Global infrastructure design, construction and asset management company, Opus International Consultants, has appointed Gordon Davidson as CFO. He is currently CFO of Kiwibank and has an extensive banking background with
The University of Waikato Management School has created an executive in residence role to engage more with the business sector in areas of growing importance for the region. Former Hamilton
The essence of great leadership can be elusive. But there’s one human quality which, if it takes root, almost always delivers leader’s downfall – arrogance. Arrogance is an otherwise gifted
The causes and consequences of decreasing public trust in business, and what this means for societies and the global economy, was the focus of a public lecture last month at the Victoria Business School in Wellington.
Co-founder and chairman of LesConcierges, the world’s premier provider of global concierge services and solutions, Linda Jenkinson is a founder member of Kea in San Francisco.
No industry has felt the impact of recent disasters like the insurance sector – and every business and householder wears the downstream outcomes. Reg Birchfield talks to KPMG about the outlook for insurance, and its business impact, for at least the next decade.
The transition from executive suite to boardroom doesn’t always work. Margaret Devlin improved theodds through planning, preparation and participation.
The New Zealand Telecommunications Forum (TCF) will bring together world-leading business and technology speakers as part of its inaugural business leaders’ conference, MindStorm, on Thursday April 18 this year.
The New Zealand Telecommunications Forum (TCF) is bringing world-leading business and technology speakers, including ‘big data’ expert, to speak at its inaugural business leaders’ conference, MindStorm, on April 18, 2013.
Pundits and politicians repeatedly exhort New Zealand enterprise to be more innovative. Reg Birchfield examines our innovative capabilities and our global track record and sees some contradictions.
Shareholders will take more notice of board and director performances in 2013, according to the first of two reports by global consultancy Deloitte. And directors will face 10 important governance
Wellington investment company Rangatira has appointed Sophie Haslem and Richard Wilks as non-executive directors to its board. And the board of Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation, the Crown entity that
Two largely-under-the-radar shifts have been going on in the Government over the past year or so. Unlike lot of what the Government has been doing, these may well lead to
Crunch time for cashflow equals tax time for many businesses. A Kiwi firm developed concept of tax financing unique to…
Greater demands on CFOs mean recruiting for the role today is becoming that much tougher. Over the past 10 years shrinking deadlines and heightened market activity have created change in
Asian institutions and perspectives are increasingly shaping the global financial landscape. Ruth Le Pla questions NZ business’ response to the opportunities.
The fraud investigator who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme eight years before it unravelled gives five tips to New Zealand CFOs on how to spot and stop massive fraud. Financial journalist Bernard Hickey reports.
When the PSIS became the Co-operative Bank in 2011 it provided New Zealanders with a banking option stemming from entirely different principles than those that drive our major trading banks.
If you want to have small glimpse of what the future might look like, visit Point England School in Auckland. You can visit them online and view their blogs and
The doors are now open for applicants for the 2013 Cranfield NZ Alumni Scholarship. This offers the opportunity for one of New Zealand’s young executives to complete an MBA at Cranfield School of Management, one of Europe’s top business schools, free of charge and with travel expenses paid.
Sovereign CEO Charles Anderson tells Vicki Jayne why he thinks business as usual is no longer an option – and how business is taking a lead in creating more sustainable societies.
Rhys Bateman is product marketer for accounting and payroll software provider MYOB.
Big data is one of the top three technology trends for 2013, along with mobility and fibre. NZ Management’s April magazine is The Technology Issue and will focus on these three with a cover story on big data: transforming data into business advantage.
The rise and rise of American investment guru Warren Buffett as seen, largely through the eyes of Fortune magazine writer Carol Loomis, who tracked his career from its earliest years
What do Captain Kidd, pirate radio jocks, net hackers and the manipulators of DNA have in common? According to French academics Rodolphe Durand and Jean-Philippe Vergne, their actions helped foretell
Margaret Devlin: model of new governance Financial sector reforms Rediscovering capex Running carefully with the bulls
The Money Issue The CFO & spotting fraud: We’re not as safe as we think we are. The fraud investigator who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme eight
Central banks which endorse it make simple case for quantitative easing (QE): if they print billions or trillions more of currency, the existing stock will be worth less and so
There might be mayhem in the corporate sphere with number of high profile receiverships and staff cuts but the Auckland Chamber of Commerce’s first Business Confidence Survey for the year,
Technology has been given bad rap as contributor to the western world’s expanding girth. We spend an increasing amount of time sitting and less time doing. We text, tweet, email
Online accounting software company Xero has appointed Amanda Armstrong as New Zealand general manager. Most recently consulting to Lexis Nexis, Armstrong has in-depth accounting industry experience having spent over 20
March 3-8 Company Directors Course. Wellington. Institute of Directors. iod.org.nz 4 Influencing and Persuading Skills. University of Auckland Executive Education. exec.auckland.ac.nz 4-5 Facilitation Skills. Wellington. NZIM. nzim.co.nz 4-6 Four Quadrant
It’s now six years since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and chief financial officers are taking stock of what’s changed and what’s next. Apart from finance companies,
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) last week released its compliance focus for 2013 which outlines FMA’s priority areas for monitoring and surveillance over the next year.
BusinessNZ cocktail party to celebrate getting “back to the grindstone” for 2013 1 Jennifer Moxon (IBM New Zealand) and Jeremy Harding (Business Central). 2 Sir Christopher Harris (North Pacific Securities)
The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) has released the latest results from its Global Entrepreneur Indicator research project, a biannual survey of business owners from around the world. The survey focuses in part on performance-related metrics, such as jobs, profits and debt loads and partly on business climate, including access to capital and predictions on the economy.
A special discount on this year’s Higher Education Summit, to be held on 20-21 March at the Aotea Convention Centre, Auckland, is being offered to NZ Management magazine readers. The discounted fee is $995 +GST and is available until this Friday March 8, and if you book two delegates a third can attend free.
An Auckland Chamber of Commerce confidence survey – the first for 2013 covering responses from over 1100 firms in the region – shows dramatic lift in confidence reports Chamber CEO
Hold on tight, 2013 will be “year of adaptation” to rapidly evolving global capital markets landscape. So says Deloitte in its 2013 Capital Markets Outlook report. Subtitled “It’s the end
While Generation Y values innovation in an employer, only 26 percent of those in recent Deloitte survey believe their current organisation’s leaders encourage practices that foster innovation. Seventy-eight percent of
In the first collaboration of its type in New Zealand, IBM opened its multi-million dollar Delivery Centre at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland in February. The centre will prepare
If they fall seriously ill, 45 percent of business decision makers would be unable to pay all their expenses and maintain their lifestyle just four weeks after sick leave and
• SEEK New Job Ad Index up 3.9% on January 2012 • Auckland and Canterbury lead new job ad growth Data released by Seek in February revealed new job ads
Dear editor Congratulations on your excellent special annual issue (Jan/Feb 2013) in which business and thought leaders share their insights on the year ahead. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and
