Once upon a time there was an accountable government, and other fairy tales. The theme for this month’s issue is transparency and accountability in government, a good thing is that everybody wants. But what we want and what we get are not always the same thing. It’s depressing, frankly. So let’s tell a fairy tale…
Only insure what you can’t afford to lose. My most valuable possession, by far, is my wedding ring. In my eyes, it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I designed it myself, while my husband (fiancé at the time) bank-rolled it. Meeting the requirements of being worth at least 3x his monthly salary; it’s…
Is differentiated reporting for investors and other stakeholders the way to go? Just the other day I was having a contemplative beer or two with a sustainability adviser who sometimes collaborates with me on annual reports. As the wordsmith, I assemble and tell the company value-creation story, where he’s a veteran CA(SA) who adeptly crunches…
Dress and groom yourself to display the authentic you – and win people over. It has been scientifically proven that you are judged within the first few seconds of meeting someone new, based on many levels of information stored in the brain, as explained in Malcolm Gladwell’s book ‘Blink’. What scores highest on the impression…
According to a recent survey South African businesses are seriously impacted by political instability, poor government service delivery and crime. Sixty-seven per cent of South African privately held businesses are putting off investment decisions owing to uncertainty about the future political direction of the country. Responses to other survey questions show that 48% of business…
Read Accountancy SA on your tablet You’ve requested that we develop a tool through which you can read and store previous issues of Accountancy SA in a library on your tablet. We are happy to share with you how to do it. If you want to download the Digital Magazine to your iPad or Android…