Last year this time I wrote that you should take an entrepreneurial view of your organisation and start experimenting and breaking stuff. Why? Because if you don’t foster a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, you’re going to get left behind. If you thought 2017 was fast-paced and disruptive, hold onto your seats as we enter…
We are coming to the end of the third tax year in which tax-free savings (TFSAs) have been punted, after their introduction on 1 March 2015. If you are already making use of this vehicle, great. If not, and you are getting annoyed that you are always being told about it come February, perhaps listen…
The learning journey to a CA(SA) is clear. Training contracts have abundant learning opportunities and professional environments provide role-based learning opportunities. Entrepreneurial learning is self-driven and determined on immediate skill requirements to sustain business As the professional journey evolves, the ‘formal’ learning opportunities become fewer and a ‘self-driven’ learning approach is imperative. Self-driven learning is…
Any Rolls-Royce is expected to be perfect in every way and the all-new Dawn surely does live up to this expectation − or does it? This new convertible from Rolls-Royce slots in above the Ghost and the Wraith but below the Phantom. It is not a replacement of the outgoing Drophead but a new model…
The information age we are living in has drastically changed our lives. Many of us were born in a time when the Internet, smartphones and social media were unimaginable. The speed of development and benefits of technology had surpassed the imagination of all who lived before the change of the century. In the same way,…
For the new CEO of BP South Africa integrity and remaining true to her value system keeps the first woman to head a multinational oil company in South Africa grounded Chartered Accountant Priscillah Mabelane, who has recently been appointed as the CEO of BP Southern Africa, has built her career success on authenticity, courage and…
After her articles at PwC Sunninghill, Pholoso Masilela grabbed the opportunity of a secondment in London within the Energy Department at EY LLP. Her role was that of assistant manager with a client portfolio of several energy companies, her primary client being BP Plc (a FTSE 100 Company) On her return to South Africa in…
Financial statements of public sector entities that are similar in nature, have the same or similar users, and apply the Standards of GRAP would present information in the same way. Right? The Accounting Standards Board (ASB) recently undertook research on the presentation of information in the statement of financial performance. This results from feedback from…
Threat trends we can expect in 2018 Organisations across the board have been plagued by a number of high-profile breaches in 2017, and it’s only going to get worse. Cyber threats are set to worsen, and enterprises find themselves having to deal with complex technologies, sophisticated malware, floods of data, increasingly stringent regulation and a…
In September 2017, Karin French, Chair of the Quality Control Task Force (Task Force), presented a webinar which provided an overview of the proposals that the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) are considering in relation to the IAASB Project: Revisions to Quality Control for Firms. This is a high-level overview of the webinar…