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Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... through our finance those vendors are able to offer streamlined finance which meets business needs of the end customer for a cash-flow positive, or cash-flow neutral transaction that they can actually then take advantage of. With the implicit government ...

ASX100 CEO pay, bonuses decline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Overall, the average cash pay for CEOs of top ASX100 listed companies has declined by nearly 9% from 2010 levels, which the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) attributes to a "more mature conversation" between shareholders and boards. ...

City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... have a seven year simple payback. When financed over 10 years, as the current product allows, the project becomes becomes cash neutral in the first year.... faced with financing the same project with traditional debt, over 3 years, the debt service obligations ...

Accountancy profession a driver of corporate sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... that. If I'm an accountant, thinking about capital investment decisions, I have my traditional set of tools - discounted cash flow, whatever it is. I don't know how IR or GRI is going to help internally- they're there to help the external decision."

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... methodologies work and adapt their practices accordingly," Armstrong said. "It's not must as simple as turning existing projects into cash. What we've found in China - in one project, we turned pig waste into methane at a household level. That required ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... debt markets, terms have been shortened to three years and you're pushing for five years. But some of these projects aren't cash positive until year seven, so there's no way to make the numbers work that way. An EUA can remedy that." Meanwhile, the South ...

Australian Ethical Investments faces EGM board spill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... company said in its half-year report reflected the experience "in the broader managed fund market as investors transition to cash and term deposits. Despite the decrease in inflows, up-front fee revenue improved based on the superannuation performance." ...

Investors require more corporate ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... intensive assets, we have accounting policies in place, such as impairment of assets," he said. "You have to look at the future cash flow. Now there are a lot of assumptions that go into those, and we have to look carefully at the assumptions. Are they ...

FlexiGroup joins Low Carbon Australia on financing program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... heating and cooling, which will allow businesses to introduce efficiency measures without capital outlay or putting a strain on cash flow," said John DeLano, FlexiGroup managing director and CEO. "[B]y upgrading your traditional office overhead fluorescent ...

Integrated reporting to provide analysis, innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... social and governance (ESG) factors, could provide investors with information that will assist them in evaluating future cash flows. "The answer may be to provide a much more holistic information offering to investors to enable them to make much more ...