In July, a 73-year-old professor will paddle 1 100 kilometres down the Rio Madeira, a tributary of the Amazon River. He aims to try to inspire the commitment of corporate SA to fund a reforestation project in the Brazilian Amazon as well as pioneer a new genre of climate reporting in integrated annual reports Fifty…
Gary Klinkradt CA(SA) is a partner at Klinkradt Chartered Accountants – and on the side, he is an avid artist. He started painting seriously in 2003 and his art is becoming highly sought after and can be found throughout South Africa and also in other parts of the world. Gary loves to paint thick impasto…
When meeting Donné for the first time, it is not difficult to be feel energised by her passion for life and all things International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) related. It is unsurprising, then, that Donné is a committee member of the IASB IC in addition to being the Head of Advisory Services at FirstRand Limited.…
One of the best reasons – for some, the most important reason – to take on a career in the public sector is the chance to make a positive difference in the lives of others. The sector provides many opportunities for CAs(SA) to do this and can allow you to have a direct impact on…
If he had known that accounting would become as deeply and inextricably technology based as it has, the young Chris Badenhorst wouldn’t have had to agonise quite so much over his field of study. In the end he chose accounting but, of course, in the 21st century accounting is no longer just accounting. Rapid technology…
Mbali Precious Mabaso CA(SA) is the founder of and mentor at Isikhuthazi, a programme meant to encourage, educate and empower CTA students, ITC and APC candidates. She is also an audit portfolio manager at Nedbank Group Limited Mbali repeated CTA and APC twice, only passing on her third attempt. That experience has helped her to…
As a Grade 1 pupil, at the age of 6, Erick Liebenberg was sent to school with R1,50 to buy something sweet from the tuck shop. He returned with a can of Coke, two bags of sweets and R2,75 in his pocket … An entrepreneur at that stage? Probably not. Creative? Most definitely! And today,…
After more than 50 years on the stock exchange, David Shapiro CA(SA), chief global equity strategist at Sasfin Securities, shows no signs of slowing down or retiring ‘What lockdown showed me is that I don’t want to retire, because you miss that connection with people,’ says David. ‘Investing is not difficult. Managing your client’s expectations…
COOL NEW GADGETS OPPO Reno7 Z 5G The OPPO Reno7 Z 5G is available in stylish super-sleek rainbow spectrum and cosmic black and weighs 173 g. It features a new ultra-slim retro design and comes with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB ROM as standard. On the front of the smartphone, a 6,4-inch Amoled…
We look at an often-overlooked section of the Companies Act and its implications for directors of financially distressed companies Business rescue has been an integral part of the South African legal and restructuring landscape for more than a decade and has since its inception served as an effective means through which financially distressed companies may…