With only three months to go until the new and revised auditor reporting standards become effective, are you ready to be part of a change that has been dubbed as the most significant and visible change in auditing in recent history? By Willie Botha and Hayley Barker Hoogwerf In January 2015 the International Auditing and…
The current economic climate has placed many South Africans under financial strain. As a way to cut costs, some people may even consider reducing or stopping monthly insurance premiums. However, this can be a costly mistake as it leaves them exposed to potentially even greater financial risk in the future. Instead, people should rather approach…
FORD B-MAX TITANIUM I am not sure where or how Ford came up with the concept or rather the name of ‘B-Max’ for this vehicle, but my kids could not stop comparing it to Baymax from the movie Big Hero 6. To be quite honest, there is no comparison between a marshmallow balloon-type robot with…
Transformation: accelerating the vision forward The Top 10 challenges to B-BBEE Boost your B-BBEE score TRANSFORMATION ACCELERATING THE VISION FORWARD While an unacceptably high number of South Africans are still not participating in the economy, there is another issue at hand ‒ women are just not managing to break through the glass ceiling and simply…
Directors and managers may now be held criminally liable and be jailed for cartel conduct, although criminal liability provisions do not apply to cartel conduct engaged in before 1 May 2016. By Gomolemo Kekesi and Elisha Bhugwandeen Until 30 April 2016, the penalty for cartel conduct was an administrative fine imposed on firms.1 But as…
The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) envisage that the disclosure of audit tenure will lead to greater transparency regarding the number of years of the association between audit firms and audit clients, thus strengthening auditor independence in South Africa. By Franeli Bredell Audit regulators globally aim to protect the interests of investors and other…
Charl de Villiers Johnathan Dillon Alta-Mari Grebe Carlo Botha George Diab Huzaifah Elias Chantelle Loots Tumi Hlongwane Waseem-Ahmed Carrim Johan Ferreira Raymond Ledwaba Faraimose (Mose) Kutadzaushe Louw Barnardt Siyanda Gule Graeme Marais Greg Magid Liaan Kretzchmar CHARL DE VILLIERS, 31 CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, STELLAR CAPITAL PARTNERS LIMITED Ideally, Charl de Villiers would have wanted to…
I met a new partner at the firm I was working at a few years ago along the corridor. He looked quite young that when he asked me for directions to a meeting room, that I happened to be going to as well, I thought he was a new manager. I soon found out he…
I have a couple of friends who work in the retail industry and the one ‘perk’ that comes with that is the very generous staff discounts. So much so, that it seems to succeed in convincing such employees that it would never make sense to leave the employment of said retailer. From the company’s perspective,…
Your brain makes decisions either by taking its time or through mental shortcuts based on past experience. As a speaker, if you present too much information, your audience will take longer to make a decision. Most speakers make the mistake of overwhelming their audience by using complicated PowerPoint slides. DESIGNING IMPACTFUL POWERPOINT SLIDES Choose simple…
