Archive for October, 2009

Spaghetti unravelled: how income varies with age

Watch Professor Stephen Jenkins present the Downing Lecture
Knowledge of how income varies with age on average, and the extent to which individual trajectories differ from an average profile, is relevant to many aspects of social policy making.

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Foenander Public Lecture 2009: What Makes for Meaningful Work in the 21st Century?

Watch the Foenander Public Lecture 2009
Australians are giving more and more time to paid work. Many employees draw much meaning in their lives from their paid work whether it is from their pay, the tasks they do, the difference these tasks make to others or their communities, the skills they exercise, the things they make or learn, or the relationships, laughs or social connection work brings.

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70th Annual CPA Lecture : Professor Mary Barth (Stanford University)

Accounting Research and Global Financial ReportingThe presenter, Professor Mary Barth, is a member of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Her research focuses on financial accounting and reporting issues, particularly topics of interest to accounting standard setters. This lecture considers the various financial reporting issues that the IASB has had to evaluate in recent times [...]

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