Mark Beyer

THE Federal Government’s revised corporate law reforms have received a cautious welcome from accountants, auditors and company directors.

BURSWOOD shareholders will get a chance to have their say on new shareholder, Kerry Packer’s Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, when the gaming company holds its annual general meeting later this month.

Western Australia’s major non-bank lenders should be thriving in the midst of a booming housing market, but Mark Beyer finds a mixed record.  

A SURVEY of small business has found that many organisations fail to regularly implement simple debtor management practices.

NOT many businesses have a client base as diverse as Oakvale Capital. Its clients range from international grocery group Foodland and mineral sands miner Iluka to health fund HBF, the Qantas staff credit union and the Congregation of Christian Brothers.

PERTH’S newest set of barristers’ chambers, to be known as Garns-worthy Chambers, will be officially opened on Friday.

Dozens of talented young people leave Perth every year for the excitement and opportunity of bigger cities. But there is also a steady flow of returnees. What brings them back? And how do they cope with ‘Dullsville’? Mark Beyer reports.

THE rising value of the Australian dollar risks putting a big dent in the State Government’s budget figures, Treasurer Eric Ripper said this week.

FOR corporate lawyers Geoffrey Grice and Rupert Lewi, the return to Perth has been smoother than for many other professionals.