CPA Australia: Speakers and Resources
CPA Australia provide a range of activities and resources to add interest to your Year 10 to 12 classroom. A variety of options follow.
evo TV with leaders in business, politics and the community
Alex Malley, CEO of CPA Australia hosts an online TV program on evo TV with leaders in business, politics and the community. The conversations are about personal stories, insights and motivations. His first guests to air in September 2010 are David Gonski and Mark Bouris. Called The Bottom Line, it received a great write-up in The Financial Review.
The program is made available weekly to CPA Australia's 130,000 members globally, their corporate stakeholders, the university sector, complementary member bodies, the full suite of evo TV's corporate database and is freely available to the general public.
The Bottom Line is a great educational tool, particularly for VCE Business Managment but also for a range of activities you might undertake in Year 10 (including civics and citizenship, entrepreneurship etc.)
VCTA members can register (at no cost) for the full interview series. Simply click on the link below and enter your name and email details. Each week you will receive an email with the interview.
Click here for the link to register (and instant free access).
Make sure you:
1. tick the The Bottom Line box
2. and untick other boxes if you do not wish to receive other programs
3. Then click Register, a small box at the bottom.
CPA Australia speakers for your classroom
Would you like to have someone representing CPA Australia speak with your students? Typically they will come in and speak about their career, industry, job and journey.
There is a contact for many regions across the state. The regional contacts are members themselves and are happy to receive queries from their local schools. To view the list of state-wide contacts click here.
The ABC of a corporate collapse: a free DVD
The collapse of ABC Learning, once the world's largest child care provider, is the subject of The ABC of a corporate collapse, a CPA Australia DVD.
'ABC Learning's rise and spectacular fall is an example of what happens when a company ignores the fundamentals of sound accounting,' CPA Australia CEO Alex Malley said at the launch in Sydney, Australia in February 2010.
'There is immense value in this story being brought to life for accounting and business students. The video not only covers the fundamental flaws in the company's accounting but the ethical and corporate governance issues that contributed to its demise. It shows what can happen if these go unchecked.'
The case study is available publicly on CPA Australia's YouTube channel.
To order a copy of the DVD series, please email your name, school and address to passport@cpaaustralia.com.au
Supplementary material including detailed financial accounts and other supporting material is available on CPA Australia’s website
Real Business magazine
BY CPA Australia, this finance, accounting and business magazine catering specifically caters for students including tertiary students. Real Business gives students information on different roles, industries and organisations around the world. This publication also provides career support information tailored for students.
Real Business is available online. Read current and past issues in the interactive online format. You can share pages with your students, search the issue for the story you want and click straight through to websites or emails in articles.
To access Real Business online click here.
To receive hard copies of the magazine – published three times a year – you can join CPA Passport as a business educator. For more information visit www.cpaaustralia.com.au/students and click Join CPA Passport.
