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I had a good time reading this article, not the article itself, but the comments at the bottom. The number of disillusioned people posting astounded me! Always good to get a balanced view in light of the propaganda floating around...

http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3F57FEDF-F5D1A45D/cpa/hs.xsl/1017_23040_ENA_HTML.htm There is also a link to the original source, where one respondent has expressed doubts. I guess the question I'm asking is how they define "Investment Banker"

I was wondering if anyone had opinions on this and specific issues like: Do you think its better to cover all the work set for that tutorial at a rushed and superficial level, or to cover most of the important aspects very well (i.e. explain it slowly in a way everyone understands) and let the...

The Commonwealth bank board has decided to recommend PwC to shareholders. Whilst the decision is ultimately up to the Shareholders at the next AGM, this is considered a mere formality. Looks like theres still a long while to go before KPMG overtakes PwC by revenue...

Hi I was wondering: What factors and considerations makes you choose your major in Commerce (e.g. economics, accounting, finance, Bus Systems, HR, Marketing, Management, Actuarial, Econometrics etc)? I was gonna use a poll but then I thought there are numerous factors people considered...

Dunno if this is light/offbeat news but: Fair? Unfair? Last line: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=165551

Does anyone know where we can purchase games that production of have stopped. (In my case, particularly Star Trek: Bridge Commander) (Besides Ebay, and at a reasonable price unlike the $70 or so for like a 5-10 year old game on Amazon.com)

In Australia, is it true that IB Analysts are offered 2 year contracts, after which vast majority are kicked out and a few good ones are asked to stay on as Associates? I know this happens in the U.S., but the Australian culture of IBs seems a bit different. I heard Mac does that, (rumour...

Does anyone know why there are tons of Indians/Sri Lankans love doing I.T., Engineering, Medicine, Accounting etc. but hardly anybody doing Law, Arts, Science, Economics etc.? Is it a cultural thing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnA9Lu58oHc ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha don't forget to read all the disparaging comments. By the way, if you didn't realise "tute"=institute ahahahahaha (there should be also a link to the (even worse) HKICPA Firing Donald Trump video on...

Having seen many suicide anecdotes RE: HSC/VCE over the past few days I think its important people understand the (as many more enlightened people have explained countless times in the other threads) THE HSC IS NOT IMPORTANT IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF YOUR LIFE. NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR...

I've noticed lately that a lot of us so called generation Y are really into bigger things for employment (i.e. Big 4, Top tier Banks etc) I wonder why is this the case? Theres an impression that smaller joints are more boring, but does this mean that there will be noone willing to work at...

Is anyone here currently in the Army Reserves? I plan to join but not sure about some things like the frequency of the basic training sessions at ARTC (i.e. do they run every month, every two months, every year etc.) Its hard to also get information about the exact requirements regarding...

lol this is amazing, the federal and state government bodies are trying to outdo one another with salaries Remember how ASIC was offering 58K + performance bonuses for Accounting or Law graduates...

I noticed most of us are Financial Accounting/Audit/Public Accounting aspirants. Is anyone interested in management accounting? Ironically, judging by CA/CPA/CMA/CIMA course content it seems management accounting is more related to "Finance" than Financial Accounting is. For instance in...

this is one of the most informative articles I have ever read, and looks at a lot of the stuff beyond the CA and CPA like the CFA, ACCA, CIMA qualifications I think its really relevant to people wanting to become Finance Directors and CFOs http://www.cfoasia.com/archives/200512-13.htm

I notice uni's differ between 4 year undergraduate double degrees and 5 year undergraduate double degrees hey do you guys think its better to do a four year degree in commerce and something else (doing 2 years equivalent of commerce subjects) or a five year commerce and someting degrees (doing...

I was reading the AFR yesterday and it has on the frontpage stuff about lawyers salaries at the big firms approaching $1.5 million as if it was a big deal. It also mentioned some of the smaller top tier firm Equity Partner salaries mostly were up to the 700K mark (I think) (sorry I left the...

Check it out, $1.8 million lol (yes $1,800,000) thats the highest I've ever seen in a published job ad. (yes I know its not the highest salary someone can get...) (though its probably a mistake (look at how much they say they offer in the actual ad), not even some of the CFOs of ASX50 get...

lol this is pretty old now, but the 2 pimpest play movies are great!!! 1 is for the 2002/03 feature and one is for 2004, based on the Pimpest play awards on sclegacy.com (http://www.sclegacy.com/features) great for SC lovers. (note:BIG Downloads 100MB+ each, and the sites are in some other...