Back in August, I gave a presentation for CPA Australia at Royal on the Park, which had as its objectives: How to develop effective reporting mechanisms that ensures data of high integrity and quality Responding to management information needs: how to develop a process that ensures timely response Other key reporting and systems issues that …
The question was asked on the CPA Congress blog, ‘Can accountants really add business value using these type of approaches ? I am sceptical about all of this?’. See the original post here: Online Social Networking. This is how I personally would respond to this question – you may take issue with what I’m saying, …
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I saw a post in an online forum recently asking how to speak in public, and since I’m a critic with Rostrum (a public speaking organisation that is not actually toastmasters), I thought I’d provide a few pointers. It’s actually a lot than you initially think, but you will need to practice, practice, practice. Which …
I note that Dell has just released its UMPC equivalent, the Dell Mini-9. Of course, when you see a new release in the market you’ve just bought into (clearly, I bought the HP2133 Mini-Note), you get a case of buyer’s remorse. However, from what I can tell the Dell is smaller and of course this …
It was with some alarm that I sat down to read my favourite read, ISACA’s monthly IS Control Journal, to discover that ISACA/ITGI is producing another framework to go with the COBIT framework (and it is a framework, I don’t care what anyone else says), and the VAL IT framework: the IT Risk Management Framework. …