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Archive for October 2011


Cut costs to win customers

Opinion | Cutting costs need not be solely efficiency-driven. Some of the most successful returns have come from businesses that trimmed costs while tapping into new markets.

Ready for a wave of standards changes?

The GFC has led to a tsunami of accounting changes that has just crested the horizon. If you haven’t already, Kim Heng and Malgosia Aitchison recommend you start running now.

Dear prudence

The new black in gearing ratios is sub 40 per cent as many corporate treasuries tighten their risk management. But debt is increasingly sourced offshore despite calls in the GFC to cultivate local debt investors.

Q&A;: Matthew Johnson, UBS strategist

Why UBS believes Greece will default and what that means for Australian business.