Westpac Essays

Westpac Strategies Internal Audit • Group Assurance is Westpac’s internal audit • Covers the governance, risk management and internal control frameworks of Westpac and our wholly owned subsidiaries • access to all of our entities, and conducts audits and reviews following a risk-based planning approach, the outline for which has been approved by the Board Audit Committee External Audit • Our external auditor is PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) • Provide an independent opinion that our financial reports

An employee must not damage the employer’s business due to disclosure employer’s information during the period of employment; Gooley v Westpac Banking Corp. In contrast, an employee may suffer from physically and emotionally damage due to the breach of duty by an employer: Malik and Mahmud v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA; Burazin v Blacktown City Guardian Pty Ltd. In Thomson

confidence • changes in economic conditions, consumer spending, saving and borrowing habits in Australia, New Zealand and in other countries in which Westpac or its customers or counterparties conduct their operations and our ability to maintain or to increase market share and control expenses; • geographic competitors in the business areas in which Westpac conducts its operations; • reliability and security of Westpac’s technology and risks associated with changes to technology systems information

As it can be seen, Westpac implements a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) integrating financial, environment and social dimensions into their organisation model and strategies. In addition, to address the issues identified under the three sustainability strategies, Westpac has developed ten objectives: (Appendix 1: Sustainability Objectives and Scorecard 2012) Societal change 1. Ensure our workforce

interest, the economic or political importance/ influence of entity, and the financial characteristics of entity. The greater extent of above characteristics, the greater possibility of dependent users. Kosta Bros arranged large debt arrangements with Westpac Bank and Commonwealth, and it had considerable asset then, therefore the financial characteristics can be

In the next few paragraphs I will be talking about The Commonwealth Bank, an Australian company that has gone into a foreign market. Any business faces challenges that I will be highlighting and also the challenges that The Commonwealth Bank faced. I will also highlight the points that The Commonwealth Bank benefited from. The Commonwealth Bank is Australia's driving supplier of financial services and related administrations including retail banking, premium keeping money, business banking, institutional

On the seventh of February 2009, the Black Saturday Bushfire burnt across the state of Victoria. The most devastating bushfire in the Australian history. It is considered to be one of the deadliest fires to burn in Australia as it managed to burn down over 4500-square-kilometres of land, destroy 2029 homes, kill 173 people, injure 5000 people and kill thousands of animals. Individuals, groups and government stood together to help the victims in any possible way. They did so by donating money individually

Sydney city district in streets that are known today as George Street, Macquarie Place and Macquarie Street. Mary’s great achievements during her business life include when she was one of the people that founded the bank of NSW, which today is called Westpac and another accomplishment was in 1825 when she was announced as one of the governors of the Sydney Grammar school which is now known as the Sydney boy’s grammar school. Mary also participated in Charity works and she also took interest in the Anglican