Latest Auditing Podcast Episodes
A deep dive into challenges with the property market
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - April 25, 2024 21:51 - 25 minutesMany conversations are being held about housing and property and Scott O'Neill, the managing director of Rethink Investing, covers a range of issues in this conversation. He touches on the property market, challenges for new entrants and what people need to do to set themselves up. Hosted on A...
An Australian Greens' perspective on the public service, government procurement and regulation
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - April 12, 2024 06:54 - 30 minutesSenator Barbara Pocock represents the Australian Greens in the Senate, and she is heavily involved in kicking the tyres of professional services firms as a member of two parliamentary committees. Pocock shares her perspectives on where the Greens think the public service should head as well as ho...
EP127 Energizing Change: Advocates Power Up Policy at the RESNET Policy Forum With Robert Pegues and Carl Chidlow
RESTalk - April 01, 2024 14:11 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings"Advocacy is the mirror reflecting the voices of the community into the corridors of power." - Unknown In today’s podcast we cover the topic of advocacy and public policy in the context of the residential energy sector learning from our guests Robert Pegues, General Manager of Technical Deli...
EP126 From Audits to Advocacy: Trailblazing Women in Energy Efficiency with Sharla Riead and Emelie Cuppernell-Glitch
RESTalk - March 25, 2024 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." - Estée Lauder We welcome Sharla Riead, Lead Instructor at Energy Smart Institute and Emelie Cuppernell Glitch, VP Programs at Performance Systems Development to focusing on the recognition of women in the HERS (Home Energy Rating System)...
A cross bench perspective from the Senate with the ACT's David Pocock
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - March 13, 2024 23:35 - 28 minutesConsultants and procurement have been at the forefront of parliamentary scrutiny in Australia with and one of the participants in the process of looking at this is Senator David Pocock. He talks in this episode about the various issues the committees are concerned about as well as the issues unde...
Ep. 69: PEEC's 1Q 2024 meeting: AI, private equity, and more
Ethically Speaking - February 23, 2024 15:57 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsListen as Toni Lee-Andrews and staff of the AICPA Professional Ethics Division fill you in on what happened at this quarter's open meeting. You can find the full meeting agenda here. Topics include: Section 529 plans Private equity investment in firms Artificial intelligence Simult...
EP125 QA in Your Pocket How a Mobile App is Empowering RESNET HERS Ratings with Cassandra Wright, Leo Jansen and Billy Giblin
RESTalk - February 12, 2024 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe best way to predict your future is to create it. - Abraham Lincoln Data is king, they say. How can the RESNET Quality Assurance (QA) app's data insights revolutionize how we rate energy-efficient homes? Imagine a world where getting your home energy rating was made easier by us...
EP124 RESNET’s audacious goal for 2028 and supporting initiatives with Steve Baden and Mark Johnson
RESTalk - January 15, 2024 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsTime is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. - Jesse Jackson The advent of a new year naturally brings broader thinking, more introspection, and the creation of future goals. What future goal has RESNET’s board recently adopted? Wh...
A view on the Israel-Gaza conflict
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - January 09, 2024 02:43 - 17 minutesKenneth Katzman is a national security expert from the Soufan Center in the United States who has spent many decades studying the Middle East, its politics, and American foreign policy as it relates to the region. He shares his take in this podcast on the Israel-Gaza conflict and what he believes...
What factors contributed to the shootings in Wieambilla in December 2022?
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - January 08, 2024 22:52 - 25 minutesAuthor John Kerr has a suite of true crime publications to his hame and his most recent book, The Wieambilla Shootings, sets out his take on the death of two police officers and a Wieambilla local when they were gunned down by conspiracy theorists. Kerr talks about the book and some of the implic...
2023 - the year of kicking consulting firm tyres
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - December 20, 2023 04:49 - 24 minutesAustralian Greens' upper house representative Abigail Boyd has cooked up a storm in the NSW parliament as the chair of a committee looking at the way in which consultants are used by the government. The committee is due to report in the new year with only a handful of hearings left. Boyd tells To...
EP123 The Best of RESTalk 2023 with Bill Spohn
RESTalk - December 11, 2023 12:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThat’s the funny thing about time. It is only in looking back that it’s easy to connect the dots. To see exactly why everything needed to happen the way that it did. - Rebecca Serle 11 episodes, 11 topics, 17 different guests and over 5 hours of RES-Talking in 2023! We covered a lot...
Ep. 68: PEEC's 4Q 2023 meeting: Updates on national and international ethics projects
Ethically Speaking - November 15, 2023 14:35 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIf you were unable to observe PEEC's 4Q meeting, you can listen to an overview from Toni Lee-Andrews and staff of the Professional Ethics Division. The 2-day meeting was packed with project updates and included PEEC's approval of changes to the Code of Professional Conduct related to public inte...
EP122 Best Practices in Construction Technology Education with Michael Lee, Texarkana College
RESTalk - November 13, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhatever good things we build end up building us. -Jim Rohn In today’s episode we chat with Michael Lee coordinator of the Construction Technology Program at Texarkana College in Texarkana, TX. We learn of his back story which led him to this role. He thoughtfully describes the app...
The writer's craft and the state of contemporary discourse in the public square
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - October 22, 2023 03:44 - 32 minutesJournalist, author and broadcaster Justin Smith speaks about his three books written in recent years including his most recent yarn, called Good as Gold, and he touches on the things that inspire him as a writer. He gives us a unique perspective into his work as well as a broader chat about the ...
What the heck are these sustainability standards? And where do they come from?
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - October 17, 2023 06:07 - 35 minutesThere are corporations and other entities that will be doing their best to understand and implement new standards for narrative disclosure. Sue Lloyd is the deputy chair of the Interational Sustainability Standards Board, and she provides a helicopter view of what this process for setting standar...
EP121 Back Together and Stronger, the RESNET 2023 Conference with Clara Hedrick & Emma Bennett
RESTalk - October 09, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsComing together is a beginning, keeping together is progress; working together is success. -Edward Everett Hale On today’s podcast we welcome Clara Hedrick and Emma Bennett to give us up to date and inside information about the Upcoming RESNET conference: Nov 15-17, 2023 in San Diego, CA...
Mute the noisy galahs in the Voice debate
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - September 24, 2023 09:23 - 24 minutesThe Hallway is a boutique advertising agency that had a great idea and its chief creative office Simon Lee tells Tom Ravlic how this idea - an ad to try to get respectful conversation happening on the Voice - came about. The ad features a kangaroo, an emu, and some noisy galahs. Listen ot the pod...
EP120 Energy Efficient Homebuilding at Scale with Robert Broad of AMH Development
RESTalk - September 18, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good. -Jochen Zeitz In this episode of the RESTalk podcast we are joined by Robert Broad, Senior Vice President of Development at AMH (NYSE: AMH), where he oversees new home and community development operations ...
Boyd and the NSW edition of consultants behaving badly
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - August 31, 2023 02:35 - 35 minutesThe Commonwealth Parliament has been looking at consultants but it is not the only legislature in the country giving the public service and its outsourced brains a good look. Australian Greens' Abigail Boyd is a member of the NSW Upper House. She is the chair of a committee looking closely at how...
Psychosocial hazards in the workplace
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - August 31, 2023 00:15 - 18 minutesRehab Management chief executive officer Renee Thronton spends her time looking at workplace issues and she joins Tom Ravlic to explain what the new WorkSafe rules are around the issues of making a workplace psycholofically as well as physically safe for employees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
More on consultants behaving badly .... a view from Senator Pocock
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - August 24, 2023 23:43 - 24 minutesConsulting and accounting firms have been under fire for much of 2023 thanks to the curiosity about their operations expressed by the individuals such as Senator Barbara Pocock, a member of a committee considering what to do with consulting practices that receive government contracts. She updates...
What is a sustainability standard?
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - August 16, 2023 08:05 - 29 minutesEY sustainability expert Matt Nelson - also a member of the Australian Accounting Standards Board - explains what sustainability standards are and what you might be able to expect from companies that report sustainability information. This is an emerging area and anybody with investments in compa...
EP119 RESNET appoints a new ESG Advisory Group with Matthew Cooper, PEG
RESTalk - August 14, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It is a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance. -Ban Ki-moon ESG has become an integral factor in the financial world. The Struct...
Ep. 67: PEEC's 3Q meeting: AI, sustainability, changes to the code and more
Ethically Speaking - August 10, 2023 19:37 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDid you miss this week's meeting of the Professional Ethics Executive Committee? Not to worry. You can catch the highlights here with Toni Lee-Andrews, director of the AICPA Professional Ethics Division and other staff. You'll hear mention of beneficial ownership information reporting and you...
Secret State ... insight into a Four Corners report
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - August 06, 2023 14:01 - 21 minutesFour Corners joiurnalist Angus Grigg takes us on a deep dive into the Secret State report and what he and the team found when they went looking at the way in which consultants had embedded themselves in the ecosystem in Australia's national capital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Investigating and reporting on war crimes ...
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - August 06, 2023 06:26 - 16 minutesJournalist Nick McKenzie has been responsible for breakking some of the biggest stories but none more so that the one that led to a marathon defamation case involving Victoria Cross winner, Ben Roberts Smith, and allegations of war crimes. Nick outlines some of the challenges that played out repo...
EP118 Santa Fe's Habitat for Humanity Homes achieve HERS-ZERO scores with Rob Lochner and David Best
RESTalk - July 10, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” -Albert Schweitzer Habitat for Humanity’s mission is to help families build and improve places to call home. In the process developing strong and stable communities with affordable housing. Often household u...
Why does a Senator get interested in audit?
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic - June 20, 2023 07:49 - 22 minutesSenator Deborah O'Neill represents the State of NSW in the Australian Senate but is also the chair of the powerful corporations and financial services committee in the Commonwealth Parliament. She got interested in audit a few years back and kick started an inquiry but she's now in the middle of ...
EP117 Learning more about the HERS Index and Texas House Bill 3215 with James Rodriguez and Ned Munoz
RESTalk - June 12, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“The trend is your friend.” -Mark Zweig With Texas as the leading state in new home starts, we can expect some housing trends first to arise there. Why was House Bill 3215 developed and enacted in Texas? What entities and organizations participated in developing the language in the ...
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