People working in the USA are often employed at will, meaning that they are not protected from dismissal by their contracts. Although this can be worrisome, Martin believes this flexibility helps to create many work opportunities in the USA (the unemployment rate is only around 4%). Martin Pittorino tells us more. Please read the full interview…
In the past two decades, growth rates in the united states have fallen to half of what they were in the middle of the 20th century. the share of income accruing to the top 1% has nearly doubled since the 1970s, while the share of income going to all workers has fallen by nearly 10%.…
People around the globe are more connected to each other than ever before. Information, communication, and money are being exchanged at lightning speed. Goods and services produced in one part of the world are increasingly available in all parts of the world. It’s incredible the way the global economy has recovered from the 2008 financial…
Matt Knight (MK) from SAICA spoke to Carrick Wealth Director of Corporate and Client Solutions Anthony Palmer CA(SA) and Sion Gelgor CA(SA), Wealth Specialist at Carrick, about retirement planning in South Africa and offshore and asked them, first, about saving money. Hope is a false plan. The reality is that we are all retiring later,…
It’s impossible for anyone today to give a precise vision of how the next ten − much less five − years will unfold in the field of AI. That’s not to say that it’s impossible to make broad predictions about AI’s impact in the coming years and decades. Our aim here is different: to make…
The global economy has necessitated working across cultures and navigating the complexities of diversity. Leaders often focus on endless ‘tasks’ and neglect the ‘process’ of achieving those tasks. Organisation development practitioners are skilled in assisting leaders to attend to ‘process’. Read Paolo’s full article by fast-tracking here.
After a board meeting held in December 2017, the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) issued a feedback statement to inform stakeholders of the key messages received in response to their outreach activities relating to emerging forms of external reporting (EER). This article provides an overview of the feedback statement. Read the full article…
Why are we not saving enough for our retirement? I say ‘we’ because, according to National Treasury, 94% of the population isn’t. I think that is a big enough majority to use the collective ‘we’. Therefore, listen up! Fast track to Gizelle’s article here.
Being able to focus helps us succeed. Whether it’s focusing inward and attuning ourselves to our intuitions and values, or outward and navigating the world around us, honing our attention is a valuable asset. When we can’t focus at work because of distractions, it may lead us to feel stressed about not being productive, which…
He’s an Iron Man athlete; she has purple hair and tattoos. At first glance, they appear to be the archetypal odd couple. But what Gary and Naomi Swartz share is a passion for accounting – that’s what brought them together when they first met in 1997, when they were both doing their articles at Deloitte.…