Before I delve into when your payday is, let us first discuss trying to spread your disposable income over a full month. If that statement on its own makes you nervous or confused, we have got bigger problems than I had anticipated. What I have witnessed is that payday comes and everyone is in the…
Growing up in the dusty streets of Limpopo Matome Moholola could not think beyond the prevailing circumstances: inadequate schooling, infrastructure, and limited career choices. But in a Grade 7 accounting class this all changed. He tells us his story Though our teacher then had a vague idea of the chartered accountancy profession, I purposed in…
I think I could almost write a book on what I and my team have seen in the past four years of performing B-BBEE verification engagements for around 350 companies. One word that keeps coming back to my mind is INTENT. No matter how things are legally structured, management’s true intentions normally become clear over…
2017 WHERE TO FOR INVESTORS? REALISING THE POTENTIAL OF AFRICA’S ECONOMIES HEDGE FUNDS: FRIEND OR FOE? WHY BUY ART? WHERE TO FOR INVESTORS? In today’s interconnected, fast-changing world, you need deep investment insights to make the connections between many seemingly unconnected factors. Kevin Lings and Vaughan Henkel takes a look at a range of…
What differentiates you usurps your qualification According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report, less than five years from now 5 million jobs will have been lost to automation. Technological advances in robotics and machine learning, for example, will also create new jobs and change the skills that employers need from human workers.…
THE FUTURE OF DYNAMIC BUSINESS LEADERSHIP As we move towards an increasingly digitised, interconnected world, the challenge of delivering relevant and innovative thinking within professional education programmes accordingly increases too. Given our rich history, South Africa is uniquely poised to offer thought leadership perspectives that embody local thinking within international contexts. Within the University of…
‘Maybe we have been doing it all wrong. Maybe we have totally lost the plot and gone off in the wrong direction,’ writes Mvelo Hlophe, a student from the University of Cape Town (UCT). He won the 2016 Student Leadership Summit for his insightful and solution-driven #Feesmustfall essay Twenty-two years post Apartheid, people are still…
Hayley Barker Hoogwerf explores the revised requirements of the 800 series of assurance pronouncements effected in consequence of the issue of the new and revised auditor reporting standards, including practical considerations auditors must be cognisant of in the performance of these specialised standards engagements The so-called special considerations reporting standards, namely International Standards on Auditing…
Shining South African role model manages ‘by embarrassment’ In December 2010, a host of accolades was encapsulated in the conferment by Stellenbosch University on Whitey Basson of the degree Doctor in Commerce (DComm) honoris causa. The degree recognised Basson’s outstanding leadership qualities; his excellent achievements as a business leader and job creator; and his continued…
One of the most sought-after skills as a speaker is knowing how to be engaging on stage and being able to hold the audience’s attention from start to finish. It should not matter if you are the first speaker on the agenda or the last speaker on a Friday afternoon; if you implement some basics…