As professional advisors to business clients, there is a tendency to focus upon the technical and legalistic aspects of merger and acquisition transactions. Accountants are required to analyse the financial position of the target and lawyers are required to analyse the legal position of the target. A great deal of time and effort is often…
Details2009While we wait patiently for our winter of financial discontent to be made glorious summer, searching eagerly for credible signs of green shoots and wondering which letter of the economic alphabet – V, W,U or, horror upon horrors, L – will most aptly describe the shape of the current recession, we know that Merger &…
DetailsThe International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has issued proposals to amend IAS 32(AC 125) – Financial Instruments: Presentation. The purpose of the amendment is to clarify the classification of instruments that give the holders the right to acquire an entity’s own equity instruments at a fixed price (rights issue) when that price is stated in…
DetailsIntegritax, 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…
DetailsSo 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…
DetailsOur 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…
DetailsFor 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…
DetailsOne 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…
DetailsFROM THE PEN Have You Heard? If you are, as I am, somewhat challenged by the wonders of new science and technological advances, then South Africa’s launch of the low-orbit microsatellite, SumbandilaSat, is sure to intrigue even the most hardened non-scientific being. We are all aware of the impact climate change has had on our…
DetailsThe primary requirements for a credible valuation are a stable historical earnings stream, a clear outlook for future earnings, low volatility and good proxies to be used as comparisons. Current market conditions both locally and globally have only served to complicate private and public equity valuations, which are tricky exercises at the best of times.…
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