On the big days of this month’s earnings season, The Australian Financial Review’s Chanticleer columnists James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald have extracted the gold from the key profit results.

AM: It was IDP Education’s first year without Andrew Barkla calling the shots, and the transition to new chief executive Tennealle O’Shannessy seems to have gone pretty well. O’Shannessy is best known in the market as the former boss of Adore Beauty, but before that she was in charge of SEEK’s learning division.