CPA Australia

Looking for a different way to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival? 🏮✨

Join us for the Moonlight & Wellness Networking Experience, a unique blend of tradition, health, and professional connection.

Here is what awaits you:

🔹 Discover practical TCM-inspired wellness practices to boost your daily routine
🔹 Create your own herbal sachet and nasal inhaler to keep
🔹 Savour a mooncake tasting
🔹 Meet like-minded professionals in a relaxed, welcoming setting

Come solo or bring a friend - everyone walks away with new connections and a wellness kit.

📅 21 September | 6.30pm – 9pm SGT
📍 CPA Australia, Singapore Office
🎟️ Members: $8 | Non-members: $15

Spots are limited. 👉 Register by 15 September: https://bit.ly/4hZFyOy

As emerging technologies continue to reshape the business landscape, understanding innovation has become a strategic imperative for finance and business professionals.

More than 40 CPA Australia members from Hong Kong and South China recently gathered in Shenzhen for an immersive exploration of the technologies redefining our future. Visits to Shenzhen Intellifusion Technologies, EngineAI Robotics and BYD offered members a deeper understanding of artificial intelligence, smart city applications, intelligent automation and advanced manufacturing.

Highlights included a sharing session with Dr Alex Deng, Director, Senior Vice President, CFO, HRVP and Board Secretary of Shenzhen Intellifusion Technologies Co., Ltd., as well as live robotics demonstrations and BYD's battery safety and extreme cold charging tests.

What truly elevated the tour experience was the quality of connection. The tour fostered valuable cross-sector dialogue and strategic reflection on the trends unfolding across the Greater Bay Area, and our role in shaping them.

Elevate your skills this September with our Hong Kong professional development workshops.

Explore practical and timely topics designed to help you stay ahead in today's evolving business landscape, from optimising tax savings and understanding interest income taxation to navigating HKFRS 16 Leases and leveraging OpenClawAI to enhance productivity.

📅 Register now: https://bit.ly/4bUsepZ

CFO Josie Pane learnt a sharp career lesson 21 years ago. 💡

And it’s helped define her leadership ever since.

“One day I was speaking with the CEO about how things were being done,” she tells INTHEBLACK.

“There were some problems, and as I was relatively young and new to such a leadership role, I thought he might deal with the problems I raised.”

The CEO’s response shook her.

“Instead, he said, ‘You need to confront those problems and go and address them. You do not get the corner office without doing such things’.

“That very much resonated with me.

“You cannot be in a leadership position without tackling some of the hard stuff, or without approaching people and communicating effectively with them.”

Today, this dynamic FCPA is guiding HVP Plantations. 🌲

And this comes with its own challenges. When your revenue relies on trees that take 25 years to grow, natural disasters become an almost existential risk.

That danger became a reality during the Walwa-Mt Lawson bushfire in January 2026, which burned about 10,800 hectares of the Shelley pine plantation in North-East Victoria. 🔥

“That sort of disaster really changes a business like this,” recalls Pane.

“There were many customers we were going to supply from that plantation crop, and it is not as simple as just replanting it.

“The value loss after an event like that is quite heavy. In addition, we needed to salvage the burnt trees that still had useful timber inside and pay the cost of clearing areas that could not be salvaged for replanting.

“These are big dents in our balance sheet and in our profit and loss.”

Pane’s leadership approach is built on transparency, empathy and accountability. 📈

Learn more about her story, how it’s shaped her leadership and what you can take from this CFO's career journey. 👉 https://bit.ly/4cr6bbs

✨ We delivered!!

CPA Australia is pleased to have delivered two customised training programs for BERNAS Malaysia.🌾

Both sessions saw strong participation from the Financial Management and Financial Reporting teams alongside participants from Cost Management, Operations, Corporate Planning & Performance, Quality Assurance, Concession Management, and Financial Governance & Treasury, reflecting the organisation's commitment to strengthening financial capabilities and adopting technology-enabled reporting practices across the organisation.

As an HRDC-approved training provider, CPA Australia's customised learning solutions are designed to address specific training needs while building capabilities across functions.

If your organisation is looking to strengthen finance capabilities, navigate reporting requirements or accelerate AI adoption, we'd be delighted to explore how we can support your priorities.🤝🏻

For enquiries on customised learning solutions, contact [email protected]