Jeffrey Knapp

ASIC company data should be open and free – even Malcolm Turnbull agrees

21 Sep 2016

Keeping public information about companies locked up behind paywalls and maintained by private interests is not in the public interest, writes Jeffrey Knapp.

The ugly story of Dick Smith, from float to failure

11 Mar 2016

There is a lot for senators to pore over in the float and failure of Dick Smith, writes Jeffrey Knapp.

Big four accounting firms avoid scrutiny in multinational tax avoidance

25 Feb 2016

Australia's big four accounting firms need to support transparency in what they do, not just in what they say, says Jeffrey Knapp.

The stupidest excuse for non-disclosure ever

01 Oct 2015

The notion that revealing how much big companies pay in tax might expose their CEOs to kidnapping is just one of the more colourful arguments in a litany of bogus excuses for non-disclosure, writes Jeffrey Knapp.

The journalist and the forensic accountant

08 Sep 2015

Something is slowly killing our tax base, but what? UNSW’s Jeffrey Knapp and Fairfax’s Michael West are on the case.

They want us to worry about debt and the deficit: the real crisis is disclosure

13 Apr 2015

Debt and deficit will continue until the worst of all the disasters is attended to: the disclosure disaster, writes Jeffrey Knapp.

Regulators turn a blind eye to financial reporting failures

10 May 2013

Hancock Prospecting's financial reporting practices are questionable, but what is more disconcerting is how little ASIC does to enforce the reporting requirements of the Corporations Act, writes Jeffrey Knapp.

Waterhouse company: ASIC drops the ball

02 May 2013

There is no excuse for the pattern of black holes in the financial records of Australian companies, including online betting companies, writes Jeffrey Knapp.