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Audit firm rotation arrives in NZ, but are we ready for AI?

ANALYSIS: Research shows show that 31 NZX50 companies have had the same audit firm for at least the past decade. Of those, 20 hadn’t changed audit firms in more than 20 years.

Hamish McNicol and Calida Stuart-Menteath Fri, 17 Apr 2026

NBR Focus

The Accountants 2026: PE-backed Teneo plots further NZ expansion

NBR Focus

The Accountants 2026: Selling the ‘sizzle’ of being an accountant

NBR Focus

The Accountants 2026: Reconciling with AI

The NBR Podcast

Podcast #99: The Accountants – Job losses & AI

NBR Focus

The Accountants 2026: $2b industry sheds 1000 jobs in two years

Beehive Banter

Interest rate cut, defence spending, data breach ... let’s go

The Government and Opposition argue about who is responsible for interest rate cuts.

Brent Edwards Sat, 22 Feb 2025

Last Word

It really is time for an aviation market study

ANALYSIS: The Government should heed calls from flyers to direct the ComCom to investigate the competitiveness of domestic aviation.

Calida Stuart-Menteath and Hamish McNicol Fri, 21 Feb 2025

Hunter’s Corner

The delusional optimism of Comvita

ANALYSIS: ‘Accounting irregularities’, resignations, impairments, and breached debt covenants are the mānuka honey company’s reality.

Tim Hunter Fri, 21 Feb 2025

Edwards on Politics

The reality of dealing with Donald Trump

ANALYSIS: New Zealand has to work out when to lean in, and when to shut up.

Brent Edwards Thu, 20 Feb 2025

Margin Call

To infinity, and beyond! AI is the new space race

ANALYSIS: China’s DeepSeek-R1 may have firmly punctured the narrative that AI progress requires infinite spending.

Tim Chesterfield Tue, 18 Feb 2025

Shoeshine

Green hydrogen: The future or a ‘woke fantasy’?

ANALYSIS: Australia had big ambitions to be a green energy superpower based on green hydrogen, but some investors have cold feet and one side of politics is turning hostile.