SAICA Thought Leadership Paper Publication B-BBEE: insightful corporate reporting South Africa has not yet realised the badly needed growth for effective transformation to take place, stating that sustainable and economic transformation can only be attained if Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) receives widespread support from all sectors of business. B-BBEE remains a vital transformation policy…
Running a business involves time-consuming admin and management tasks that are nonetheless crucial to staying competitive. Cloud-based technology lets you outsource the headaches, writes Daniel Marcus The worldwide web has changed the ways in which businesses communicate with consumers. But did you know it has also changed the very ways in which business owners run…
Ilke Meissner examines the requirements of broad-based employee share plans and their comparison to the proposed terms for shares to be held under trust in terms of the Companies Act The provisions regulating broad-based employee share schemes in the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 play an important role in encouraging employee participation in companies.1…
In August Paul Druckman will be visiting South Africa for the first time in his capacity as chief executive officer of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). Leigh Roberts spoke to him Integrated reporting may well be considered de rigeur in South Africa, but things are quickly catching up in the rest of the world.…
With the economy being so unpredictable at present, leaving investors unsure and taking even economists by surprise, one cannot help feeling rather cautious as to what the best approach is regarding investments, let alone whose advice to follow With interest rates currently at a multi-decade low in South Africa, many investors have been enticed to…
It gives us the greatest honour to announce the names of 35 of the most outstanding young CAs(SA) in South Africa. They have been handpicked not only for their exceptional career achievements and abilities but also for how they actively are giving back to the community and the less fortunate – and ultimately for the…
Johan Scheepers discusses the evolution of banking regulation and the new leverage ratio as an additional tool to understanding banks’ and banking groups’ risk Banking as a business was originally practised in the ancient empires of Babylon, Assyria and Judea. The first “modern” bank was the Bank of Venice, which was founded in 1157. Two…
Organisations go to great lengths to implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and for very good reasons. ERP systems such as Oracle or SAP support data centralisation and eliminate islands of information caused by software applications that do not communicate with each other. Despite these compelling reasons and the overall benefits of ERP systems in…
Have you looked at your cellphone bill lately? Not a cursory look, but a really good look at what you are actually being charged for? You will notice that the offerings of the service providers have expanded and now include free talk minutes, data, and SMS or MMS. This may not come as a surprise,…
A large number of businesses are still using outdated accounting software solutions that were developed using legacy software that was discontinued many years ago. Not only can it compromise one’s business, but it could also pose a massive threat to business executives who recommend this software to their clients. More importantly, it could result in…