Integritax, SAICA’s monthly tax newsletter, came about as a result of the efforts of the first Project Director: Tax, the late Len Norval, wanting to start a Tax Faculty in the early 1990s, for SAICA members, along the lines of a similar offering by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. A separate…
So you hear that SAICA is changing its current training model and already you have pushed the panic button. As a trainee or a university professor you don’t know what this will really mean to you or how it will impact on your goal of becoming a CA(SA). You ask yourself why change a winning…
Our focus this month is our SAICA Regional presidents. We ask them questions ranging from elections of their boards, challenges and successes, and their strategic roles in implementing SAICA’s vision. To view the full version of the interviews, please visit www.accountancysa.org.za. Tim Odell ACA, CA(SA), is the Chairman of SAICA UK Region. What is the…
For some years now the role of the compliance officer and conceivably the concept of compliance risk (which is also known as legal risk) were associated with the financial services industry. Many people might have thought that only laws impacting on this industry have to be complied with. This perception could as well have been…
One of South Africa’s most daunting educational challenges is to ensure that the average student entering university has a foundation sufficiently strong to handle the demands of university life. With a view to contributing meaningfully to meeting that challenge, SAICA has accredited 13 universities to deliver the chartered accountancy [CA(SA)] programme comprising BCom and the…