This reporting season, take the earnings figure with a grain of salt when the CEO has outsized influence.
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Research shows investors could have been misled just by the order of information in financial reports.
Australian companies are increasingly using non-standard metrics in their financial reports. It would be better for investors if they didn’t.
Greek and Roman historians were also known to fudge or fabricate their time in the field.
Once on the fringe of institutional investors’ considerations, reporting on environmental, social and governance related issues is now common practice among major listed companies. But the quality and…
Hopping from a A$250 million net profit for the 2010/11 financial year to a A$245 million net loss next period can make any CEO skip a few heartbeats, but this doesn’t deter Qantas chief executive Alan…
Newspapers love a bold, standout headline. But not when it is about them and the news is bad. Fairfax Media today announced its annual results with a whopping headline figure of a net loss after tax of…
It’s reporting season and the interest in executive pay is heating up again. Alan Joyce is the latest CEO to forgo a bonus, joining a growing number of high profile business leaders including Rio Tinto’s…
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