Thanks for waiting as Paul and David co-ordinated their COVID-19 responses to clients over the week. This episode was recorded Week ended 6 March, don't worry we'll get up to date next week! 

BEST ON GROUND

Paul Meissner

• Finally some practical rather than fear based information. Great Jacinda Ardern video, these infographics and a blog from Gusto’s Will Lopez. 

• https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/03/watch-health-experts-join-jacinda-ardern-to-dispel-some-coronavirus-covid-19-myths.html 

• https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/covid-19-coronavirus-infographic-datapack/

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wlopezjr_an-employers-guide-to-navigating-coronavirus-activity-6643188048160964608-Eg1X  

David Boyar

• Follow Anthony Pratt on Twitter - NOW!

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anthonyjpratt_activity-6642814189863874560-ckBb/ 

• Tips for working from home (with or without corona virus)

• https://www.instagram.com/p/B9hFplfAu7P/?igshid=17n629udacfu2 

• How do you recruit a BD role for your firm? Surely the Firms BDM needs to be an accountant. 

• https://www.seek.com.au/job/41134304

WORST ON GROUND

Paul Meissner 

• IWB Marketing, is IWD becoming the new Valentines Day type of Hallmark holiday? Marketed awards and cupcakes? What about real discussions and real change where required.   

• In The Guardian Alexandra Topping observed IWD “is in danger of becoming little more than a corporate Valentine’s Day, with companies jumping on the bandwagon to whitewash their brands rather than promote women’s equality”.

• https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-last-thing-women-need-is-iwd-a-corporate-version-of-mothers-day/ 

• Justin Kan’s hybrid legal software and law firm startup Atrium is shutting down today after failing to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a traditional law firm, the CEO tells TechCrunch exclusively. The startup has now laid off all its employees, which totaled just over 100. It will return some of its $75.5 million in funding to investors, including Series B lead Andreessen Horowitz. The separate Atrium law firm will continue to operate.

• https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/03/atrium-shuts-down/?

• KPMG retakes independence exam amid cheating scandal. 

• All 600-odd KPMG Australia partners and more than 5900 client-facing staff will be forced to resit the consulting firm's internal independence exam amid an investigation into cheating on the annual assessment.

• The firm has taken the unprecedented step after a whistleblower complaint that model answers to the 20-question multiple choice exam at the end of the course were being improperly shared.

• https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/kpmg-retakes-independence-exam-amid-cheating-scandal-20200308-p547xn 

David Boyar

• We’re having the wrong conversation about Scott Cam’s 300k pay packet.

• https://twitter.com/DavidBoyar/status/1237308986975760384?s=20 

• Can we ban banks saying they are open for business?

• https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/josh-frydenberg-meets-bank-bosses-over-coronavirus-hit-20200311-p548xj.html

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From the Trenches is brought to you by Paul Meissner from Freedom Mentoring and David Boyar from Change GPS. Proudly sponsored by BGL and The Outsourced Accountant.