By Pam Graham of NZPA Wellington, Aug 24 NZPA - Years ago in the lectures of Professor Don Trow at Victoria University we used to debate the merits of which profit in a set of accounts to look at.

By Pam Graham of NZPA Wellington, May 28 NZPA - The business community is welcoming the Government's "no surprises" budget though some said it was not tough enough.

By Pam Graham of NZPA Wellington, May 8 NZPA - Businessman Ross Townshend admits there's an element of a "not in my backyard" position in his opposition to a wind farm in the Waikato.

By Pam Graham of NZPA Wellington, April 3 NZPA - Passengers from cruise ships and North Islanders are filling the carriages on Otago's Taieri Gorge Railway, even in the depths of a recession said to be crunching tourism businesses.

By Pam Graham of NZPA Wellington, March 6 NZPA - ANZ National Bank's institutional business, which includes its dealing room, has upped its earnings by 87 percent in volatile markets while the retail bank posted a loss.

By Pam Graham of NZPA Wellington, March 4 NZPA - Volatile financial markets have helped fell the world's biggest banks but have also been the source of record profits for bank dealing rooms, including in New Zealand.

by Pam Graham of NZPA Wellington, Feb 11 NZPA - The Government faces some big investment decisions in the Interislander ferry business it now owns at a time when ferry passenger numbers are tumbling.

By Pam Graham of NZPA Wellington, Feb 11 NZPA - The Government was advised on taking office that $2 billion needed to be spent on rail over five years. About $1b of that can be funded from state-owned KiwiRail's revenue.

By Pam Graham of NZPA Wellington, Feb 9 NZPA - Melbourne-based logistics billionaire Lindsay Fox is keeping in touch with arrangements to help fire victims at home while in Wellington for an Apec Business Advisory Council meeting in Wellington from today.

By Pam Graham of NZPA Wellington, Feb 2 NZPA - Dubai-based Emirates flies the first scheduled Airbus A380 into Auckland today, upping the anti on the trans-Tasman route and the chances of cheap flights.