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David McLean

David McLean

American film actor

Aug 19, 2026

DavidHOST
12:47
Mm-hmm
12:47
... stock book.
12:48
Now, that might be a notebook, or that might be on the phone, or they'll have a record and, and most people are pretty good at knowing what they've got in a paddock.
12:55
They've got those counts.
12:56
That, that piece of information's usually really well known, where the first thing we need to do is we need to take that information about how many animals you've got in a mob now compared to how many animals you've got in a mob 12 months ago, or in 12 months' time, depending on whether we're budgeting or monitoring a- or measuring actuals, is to know how do we get from that number to the new number, and that's where a stock f- we, we use the term stock flow as opposed to reconciliation.
13:19
They can be similar things depending on how it's laid out.
13:22
The stock flow tells you how you got from one number to the other.

45 MINS LATER

DavidHOST
58:52
Mm-hmm.
9:51
So I don't actually know what it actually achieves.
9:55
David? Yeah, I mean, your points are all valid.
9:58
And if you look at a case by case, you know, each role, you can think everything's fine.
10:05
And in fact, in my previous job, we did that.
10:07
We said everyone we think has paid the same for the same work.
10:11
But there's a number of factors that this does highlight.
10:15
There are things that, you know, in some organisations, I mean, retail and financial services, Frontline jobs are often filled by women, but less women came through to management roles.
13:33
Have you been in a corporate environment where gender pay gap reporting has been instituted and worked?

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