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• May 2013 Issue
• analysis
  • ASA Integritax - Member Navigation Guidelines
• Upfront
  • Be honest with yourself
• Develop
  • ANALYSIS: External audit confirmations to go digital
  • ANALYSIS: Tax Matters what is a Voluntary Retrenchment?
  • ANALYSIS: Transfers within equity that affect profit or loss
  • DEVELOP THE WORLD: Top ten companies
  • UP-TO-DATE: The SAICA annual general meeting
  • VIEWPOINT: Do you know what your clients really think?
  • VIEWPOINT: Drawing from the Source
  • VIEWPOINT: Empowering your staff with financial knowledge pays dividends
  • VIEWPOINT: Journaling to succeed
  • VIEWPOINT: Kentucky Fried Nuggets – the importance of the Trade Secret
  • VIEWPOINT: The problem with accounting research
  • VIEWPOINT: What is ‘material' to your company's viability?
  • VIEWPOINT: What value do you add?
• Influence
  • CAREER: Birds of a feather need not flock together
  • IFRS: IFRS review 2013
  • SPECIAL FEATURE: ESG analysis integral to determining the true value of investments
  • SPECIAL FEATURE: Stockpickers have tough choices to make
  • SPECIAL FEATURE: Variations on the Buffett theme
• Lead
  • COVER STORY: The Corporate Entrepreneur
  • ITC RESULTS: 2012 PPE results
  • ITC RESULTS: Excellent results for prospective chartered accountants
  • ITC RESULTS: Qualifying Exam Profiles
  • LIFESTYLE: Supercar Dreaming
• CPD Verifiable Articles
  • ANALYSIS: External audit confirmations to go digital (15min)
  • ANALYSIS: Transfers within equity that affect profit or loss (30min)
  • ANALYSIS: Tax Matters what is a Voluntary Retrenchment? (30min)
  • ASA Integritax - Member Navigation Guidelines (0min)

Below are a list of articles in the focus section. To view a particular article please click on the correct article name and you will be directed to it.

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• Simplifying financial reporting for micro entities (November 2012)
  The IFRS for SMEs has been a remarkable success story with around 80 jurisdictions having already adopted or planning to adopt the 230 page standard.”
• Business planning for 2013 and your golden years (November 2012)
  ...I sold all my business interests at 50 and became financially independent. Liberating!
• The question being: To be or not to be an SMP? (November 2012)
  ...retaining an outdated identity as a traditionally defined SMP may no longer be an option. If their choice is to grow and ‘to be' a success, then these firms require a new business identity, vision and strategy.
• How to take your SMP to new heights? (November 2012)
  ....specialist professionals need develop a pragmatic understanding of entrepreneurship as the art and science of small business growth.
• The revolution underway in internal audits (November 2012)
  There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know, we don't know.
• Strengthening Public Finance (November 2012)
• Accounting Software: Past, Present and Future (October 2012)
  clients have become more technologically savvy and unaccepting of the sort of software defects they once used to tolerate.
• Corporate Cybercrime: Alarm bells should be ringing in the boardroom (October 2012)
  Corporate cybercrime can inflict long-term damage on an organisation's stability and future.
• Technology is reshaping business: Elevate it for digital business (October 2012)
  Enablers may be more evolutionary than revolutionary, but in all instances the potential is there to elevate business through technology.
• Technologies for Generation Y (October 2012)
  Businesses can leverage social media based systems to achieve improved efficiencies but also to distribute intelligence where it's needed the most.

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