Businesses that fail to address potential digital risks may face damage, fines, loss of market share or loss of revenue.

Fixed interest returned 0.78% over the quarter ending 31 March 2012 while cash returned 1.12%.

Uncertainty has returned to the US commercial real estate industry, according to 2011 State of the Market Survey.

Article discusses Medium Density Housing code that is now scheduled to commence in July 2020.

Agility is key to thriving in a volatile and complex global landscape, through a flexible organisational structure.

Councils could take advantage of collaborative arrangements with stakeholders to facilitate development and innovation.

The initial judgment was against investors in the class action against companies and directors in the Timbercorp group.

It is clear that enclosed public places within strata schemes are required to be smoke-free under the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000. An owners corporation is responsible for ensuring that common areas that are enclosed public places such as main entrances, thoroughfares and car parks are smoke free. What is not so clear is the law surrounding smoke drift issues arising from smoking in your own private residential unit.

Tabcorp Holdings Limited has announced further investment into Star City Casino. In a move that will add an additional $285 million investment into the casino's redevelopment (taking total capital expenditure to $860 million), Tabcorp's plan is to reinvent the casino as a new Asian hub for high-rollers.

The changes may include better protection for dealers by general prohibitions on unfair contracts and unfair conduct.

Franchisors have to operate their businesses within a complex, ever growing regulatory environment.

Under the R&D incentive, applicants can now obtain an incentive where parts of the R&D activities are conducted overseas.

The following guidelines can help your school to achieve improved analysis and reporting of financial forecast reports.

Compliance is a critical issue for franchise systems. Franchisors all understand the importance of system compliance, but the importance of maintaining legal compliance is often overlooked.

GS018 means that the form of audit report for franchisors to support their financial positions may not be sufficient.

Whilst establishing a trust is simple, it is often not done properly.

Australian based franchisors with international operations may be able to partially recover the cost of IP protection under a recent amendment to the Export Market Development Grants scheme from 1 July 2009.

The Franchise Council of Australia has responded in detail to the thorough and quite extensive recommendation of the recent franchising inquiries in Western Australia and South Australia as a precursor to preparing its submission to the proposed Federal Government inquiry into franchising.

If the Federal Code states that "good faith" is implied in each franchise agreement, this would codify the existing law.

Although both deal with selling of intellectual properties to third parties, franchising has a greater deal of control.