November 2013

I recently read an article about Jeremy Stoppelman (the founder of Yelp) and how he succeeded by doing things his way. Stoppelman also features prominently on this year’s Fortune list of top 40 young business stars. When Stoppelman was applying to Harvard Business School in 2003, he asked his boss at PayPal, Elon Musk, to…

CFO Survey

The latest revenue standard proposes a single, complete revenue recognition model applicable to all contracts with customers. Deloitte is proud to present an abstract of our 6th Deloitte CFO Survey to you. This year our survey was extended to include chief financial officers (CFOs) operating in five African countries (Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa and…

INFLUENCE: SPECIAL FEATURE FORENSIC ACCOUNTING: Demystifying Forensic Audit service

“Recently, MTN was defrauded of millions of rands in air time by a Russian hacker, which highlighted the issue of managing IT-related fraud.” Protecting reputation and asset value from the onslaught of cybercrime Forensic audit services such as forensic accounting, investigative and legal services are often swathed in an air of mystery. Even the most…

VIEWPOINT: The all year Annual Report

“The financial year-end comes and goes, so now the financial department knuckles down to its yearly wrap-up while the other departments compile their results.” Use the annual report as a management tool and ease the year-end pain The second of South Africa’s bi-annual reporting ‘silly seasons’ ends in early October. Like me, hundreds of weary…