Are you financially fit?
How often do you sit back and critically look at your finances? Or are you so busy making a living and building a career that you never find time to assess your personal financial wellbeing? READ ARTICLE
Accountancy as Heroism
The financial health of South Africa’s cities and towns is worse than ever before, with only 18 out of 257 municipalities getting clean audit reports for the 2017/18 financial year. Surely it’s long past time to introduce more transparency into our government spending. READ ARTICLE
Advice: Learning support systems
Organisations are great at providing learning opportunities under the guise of leadership development. These ‘events’ are generally an opportunity to build a deeper, trusted relationship with colleagues and the development of personal leadership attributes. And thereafter, you launch back into the reality of your daily life, somewhat ‘changed’ READ ARTICLE
Playing our part in the transformation of the audit industry
As our industry starts to pick up the pieces of its somewhat tarnished public image and resultant trust deficit, we look up to you to join the drive to help restore the reputation and the trust the public once bestowed on our noble profession. READ ARTICLE
The deteriorating state of municipal finances
Points to an urgent need for professionalisation Decreases in the number of clean audits, high levels of irregular expenditure and deterioration in the financial health of municipalities are only a few of the matters reported by the Auditor-General that point to the need for urgent attention in municipal finance management. READ ARTICLE
I am playing my part, are you?
Nadine Thomas, the CFO of Brand South Africa that was established in 2002 to help create a positive and compelling brand image for the country, says working for the public good is immensely rewarding. Nadine is also the chairperson of the SAICA Gauteng Public Sector Committee. READ ARTICLE
SDGs: True upliftment
Musa Ndlovu’s story is an inspiring one. It’s the full-circle story of a newly qualified chartered accountant (CA(SA), who relocated just weeks ago to pursue an exciting career opportunity. Rewinding the hands of time, he was also the recipient of the SAICA’s Thuthuka Bursary Fund after his successful participation in the South African Maths Olympiad…
Why you need to ditch workplace jargon
Have you ever opened a company’s website and read for a few seconds, then wondered, ‘What do these people actually do?’ Workplace jargon is everywhere. We hear it every day and we probably use it every day. But we tend to forget that we’ve each built up subject matter expertise in our own areas of…
South Africa’s Corporate Meltdown
The temptation is to jump to the conclusion that South African business is fraught with malfeasance, but thisanalysis seeks to illustrate that while there has no doubt been unethical behaviour, the majority of failures have been through a combination of bad luck, tough conditions, one-off unanticipated events and poor judgement. READ ARTICLE
SAICA’s assistance to government regarding Eskom’s restructuring
The SAICA Board has agreed to a request from the Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, and the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, for SAICA to assist Government with the restructuring of its Eskom business through the establishment of the office of the Chief Restructuring Officer. SAICA will put together a team of specialists lead…