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Added: 15/11/2011
Be aware of all the latest developments with employment law in relation to the changes brought about from the Employment Relations Act and Holiday Act. Includes notation regarding the KiwiSaver and Compulsory Employer Contributions.
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Phil brings you thoughts regarding New Zealand; the dependency on foreign savings for its investment capital. Read his insights regarding:Economic Outlook Commercial Property Checklist for Banks Definition of commercial property lending Philosophy behind Banks’ Property Lending Policies The current trends around Accessibility and cost of funding Refinancing and the renewal of debt funding facilities in the current market
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INTRODUCTION One of the guiding forces of modern democratic societies is to ensure that those who govern do so in the best interests of the people whom they govern. As such they should ideally be representative of those people, and this representation should be current. Regular elections by enfranchised voters are the most commonly accepted means of ensuring such representative government.However, often the percentage of the eligible population that votes is disappointingly low, and the result is that the mandate of the elected government becomes questionable resulting in a lack of trust in their decisions. Gaining voter participation is thus a primary objective of the organizers of such elections.
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An all encompassing synopsis of how Napier City Council has utilised a staged approach in their website development, all in mind with the view of the user, load time of site and accessibility.
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Specialist environmental law firm Atkins Holm Majurey and international environmental consultants ERM NZ Ltd were appointed by MED to undertake the high-level review set out in the Review Report. This paper includes a large number of extracts from the Review Report including the purpose, methodology and discussion of a number of agencies with responsibilities for regulating different parts of offshore petroleum operations. Recommendations for Improvement are listed along with recent changes and reviews – all for the purpose of getting health and safety right in the offshore petroleum sector.
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Sally highlights how FMCG is a data rich environment and this can reveal insights to be used across your business. For example, pricing decisions, range planning, managing stock. Expand your use of customer analytics beyond direct marketing and customer loyalty.
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I was very pleased to be invited to speak at this conference today. At Statistics New Zealand our whole reason for being is the creation of an informed society; a society that uses information to inform its decisions, monitor its progress, create knowledge, inform its debates, and anticipate its future. We are therefore very interested in data being used to inform the development and implementation of policy that works and improves the well-being of New Zealand, its communities, and its people. I have been asked to talk about how smarter data can be a policy enabler. To do this I will discuss how policy making can benefit from smarter data; provide examples of where smart data been applied successfully; and talk about what do we need to realise this vision.
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The political environment for policy making and its effect on good policy advice; this paper includes 1. A “big-picture” context (global, domestic & economical) 2. The political and policy context if National leads government post 2011 3. Labour’s main points of difference 4. Some big contextual drivers of change in public services 5. Colin’s personal view of the future of the public sector.
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The IssueFinancial reporting for Public Benefit Entities (PBEs) has got increasingly complex over the past few years. This has been due to a variety of reasons: New Financial Reporting StandardsThe introduction of New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards (NZ IFRS) has significantly increased both the complexity and volume of financial reporting for PBEs.
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Added: 15/11/2011
Read all about Benchmarking methodology and which type to implement for your organisation; be it a disciplined approach or informal. This paper also questions how Benchmarking will develop in the future two decades.
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