Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 9. April 24 1978
Accountancy Department in "Export Strategies"
Accountancy Department in "Export Strategies"
Export Strategies, the theme of Victoria University's 25th Advanced Accountancy Seminar will be held at the Victoria University on 12 and 13 May 1978. The Seminar will be formally opened by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. D.B.C. Taylor and will commence with a keynote address by the Minister of Overseas Trade and the Deputy Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Mr. B. E. Talboys.
It will then move straight into discussion on the level and structure of international trade, led by Mr. I. L. G. Stewart, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Stewart, in his paper, will examine the major factors which determine the basic routes of the modern pattern of international trade, and the internationalisation of markets.
Victoria University's Professor W. Winiata, former Chairman of the International Business Programme at the University of British Columbia, and an authority on international finance, will deliver a paper on finance in international trade. Professor Winiata will discuss the financial mechanism for settlement, and pricing and currency problems in international trade.
Saturday's programme will feature a contribution from Dr. S.J. Sawicki, a staff member of the Department of Accountancy and the Seminar convenor. The paper is entitled "Ecologic Approach to Export," with emphasis on interrelationships between products, consumers and the environmental variations in the political, cultural, economic and institutional factors in export markets. Dr. Sawicki also describes the broader issues of the relationship between the expansion of trade and the industrialisation and market strategies and economic development in less developed countries, and the role of multinational corporations.
This will be followed by four papers on the commercial law aspects of exporting by specialist legal staff of the Accountancy Department. Paper I, by Mr. CM. Arthur, is entitled "Evolving Incentives". The Government has already foreshadowed certain radical new paths which export incentives (tax or otherwise) are likely to take. Has commerce yet come to terms with the "future shock" this will entail? All previous thinking on tax incentives may now be obsolete...
Mr. F. Donovan gives Paper II which refers to the importance of certain insurance contracts in relations to exports, and mentions recent developments which may affect traditional insurance arrangements. Paper III, by Mr. R. B. McLuskie, considers aspects of international contracts and arbitration as well as standard terms and some problems encountered by New Zealand exporters. Mr. G.J. Anderson gives the fourth paper, which looks at some problems of industrial relations in an export context and discuss some implications of the export drive for the labour force.
Significant issues in each paper will be discussed by commentators who will represent commercial, professional, academic and governmental areas of interest. The commentators are Dr. I.D. Ball, Dr. I.G. Bertram (Victoria University), Mr. B.H. Smith, General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, and Mr. E.H. Moston, New Zealand Society of Accountants.
The final feature of the Seminar will be a two-hour Open Forum, chaired by Mr. E. Millar, Deputy Managing Director of Dalgety (N.Z.) Ltd., who will introduce a panel of lead-in speakers drawn from the export oriented business community. The lead-in speakers include representatives from the Department of Trade and Industry; financial institutions; the New Zealand Society of Accountants; the Institute of Economic Research; two Trade Commisioners attached to diplomatic legations in Wellington, who will explain technical formalities of exporting in two different major trading blocks; and University students who who will focus discussion on environmental issues of industrial exporting.
Further inquiries concerning the Seminar should be addressed to Dr. S. J. Sawicki, Department of Accountancy, Victoria University of Wellington. Phone 721—000 Ext. 924. Enrolment forms can be obtained from the Secretary, Department of Accountancy, Ext. 912, or Private Bag, V.U.W.