Aside from the importance of the legal requirements for an audit, the undertaking of the audit itself provides valuable insight and give an organisation an eage’s eye view of their financial performance and position; critical for informed decision-making. It is therefore imperative that CAs(SA) perform this duty with diligence, accuracy and transparency in order to…
In this issue we speak to some of the top achievers and among other issues, they share their exams tips, why they chose the CA(SA) route, and how they celebrated their results. Susanna Lucia Huyser (Anlu) First year of articles at Deloitte, Johannesburg What does this achievement mean to you and how did you celebrate?…
The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) congratulates the 2 279 candidates who achieved success in the January 2023 Initial Test of Competence (ITC). This equates to an overall pass rate of 75%. The ITC serves as the first of two SAICA qualifying examinations. It assesses how well a candidate can apply the technical…
There was always an outside chance that Nonkululeko Gobodo would go for broke, scouting around for big names in ghost-writing and editing, but when it came to the crunch, she plucked up the courage and wrote the book herself. At the age of 60, Nonkululeko Gobodo, with no prior experience, decided to launch her writing…
Marriage and accounting are two very different things, but they can be related in certain ways. Marriage is a legal and social union between two people, often based on love, companionship, and mutual support. Accounting, on the other hand, is a system of recording, analysing and reporting financial transactions. Div and Jana Lamprecht show us…
Sandile Mnguni CA(SA) was born and bred on the South Coast where his family used to run community shops. This ignited an immense passion within him for numbers and in Grade 11 he decided he would become a chartered accountant. However, it was easier said than done, and due to limited finances meant attending university…
Siyamdumisa Vilakazi AGA(SA) was seconded as CFO to the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) when the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Ms Thoko Didiza, had to put in place a new team to stabilise the troubled land entity. Siyamdumisa Vilakazi dreams of a society where ethical behaviour is normalised as opposed to corruption;…
Although he came from humble beginnings, Imran Vanker CA(SA) made the most of every opportunity that came his way and today he is a governance, audit, and management specialist with broad experience in private practice and public sector auditing in South Africa and at the United Nations and has forged a path to an illustrious…
Five ways you can take your small business marketing and communications to the next level in 2023 Just like the ocean and its tides, if one gets caught in a current, one can choose to move with it or get tired fighting it and get pulled out to sea. In the same way one can…
For those South Africans wondering how they’ll afford school fees as well as a new season’s wardrobe, ‘buy now, pay later’ solutions are a true boon. One such solution, Float, is doing things a little differently. Paul Masson, the company’s back-end brains, explains how. Paul Masson is the kind of guy who puts his hand…