FRAUD auditing should be more widely embraced in Australia to combat rising levels of corporate fraud says corporate fraud expert and Orna Management managing director John Westall.
Mt Grace Resources NL has signed a licensing agreement with Magnesium Developments International to licence the Heggie metallothermic technology for the production of magnesium metal from calcined magnesia.
Government initiatives to assist small business with GST compliance are a welcome relief, but more support is needed, warns the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants.
FUNDING of community services, facilities and projects, roads, dual use paths and drainage have received high priority in the City of Bunbury’s $28 million budget for 1999/2000.
THE pure water market in Australia is growing at between 20 per cent to 30 per cent a year, according to Billabong Water Quality Management director Richard Patterson.
Encouraging drill results by Gold Mines of Sardinia Limited have provided a confidence boost for the company’s plans to develop a major gold project in Sardinia.
THE WA Government’s handling of the forestry debate is one of the factors destroying small business support for its policies, the latest Yellow Pages Small Business Index has found.
IN A recent article published in the Australian Financial Review entitled Trade in phony eyes doesn’t add up, journalist John Davidson unwraps the duplicitous nature of some Internet advertising behaviour.
THE hydrocarbon prospective San Joaquin Basin in the United States continues to figure high on the exploration schedule of Victoria Petroleum NL, which holds a 63.3 per cent direct and indirect stake in the California hydrocarbon real estate.
GOLD miner Troy Resources NL has moved strongly to boost its gold earnings and take over 100 per cent ownership of the Mt Klemptz tenements in the Sandstone area of Western Australia.
Bibendum surprises on many fronts. Surprise, because I did not come to it with high expectations yet left delighted and wondering why people aren’t queuing around the corner to get in.
BRIDGETOWN-Greenbushes Shire Council’s investigation into the feasibility of co-locating a range of community, education and sporting facilities has won the backing of the South West Development Commission.
CORPORATE fraud affects more than 50 per cent of Australian companies and costs between $15 billion and $20 billion a year, according to the latest national KPMG National Fraud Survey.
Despite the downturn in exploration during the June quarter, Helix Resources NL has maintained its geological and geochemical evaluations in Western Australia and South Australia.
A NEW community consultative committee has been established to help Premier Richard Court with economic and social developments in the lower South West.
The president of the world’s largest alumina producer has challenged accountants to help the resources industry come to grips with the concept of the environmental balance sheet.
