ASA November Issue 2026
In this Issue
“From Hustle to Hope” This November edition of Accountancy SA places entrepreneurship at the centre, exploring what it takes to build sustainable businesses, navigate change and create meaningful impact. The issue also marks Movember, with personal stories focused on health, wellness, resilience and the importance of making wellbeing a priority.
The cover story,“Keeping it in the Family,” features Jarryd Lahoud and Keegan Lahoud, whose family has grown iTalk from a five-person business into a 2 500-strong operation. Their story explores entrepreneurship, family leadership, learning from failure and the values that have helped build a sustainable business.
The Movember Special Feature shares two powerful perspectives on personal wellbeing. Rabesh Sukrajh reflects on leaving corporate life to pursue purposeful work centred on health and wellness, while Yashiren Naidoo shares his remarkable journey from being unable to run 200 metres to overcoming heart failure and completing three consecutive Comrades ultramarathons.
The Feature section explores AI and machine learning in credit risk and collections, investment costs, global career mobility, the future of the CA(SA) qualification and the rise of Agentic AI. It also celebrates entrepreneurs emerging from The Hope Factory’s Entrepreneurship Skills Flagship Programme and the impact of targeted entrepreneurial development.
The Focus section on Entrepreneurship looks at the realities of building stronger, more sustainable businesses, from strengthening franchise networks and embedding sustainability into SMMEs to helping business owners move beyond “firefighter mode” through stronger leadership, systems and teams.
The Recommend section provides practical perspectives on infrastructure valuation, responsible use of AI, sustainability in accounting education, choosing the right training path, board accountability under King V and the evolving corporate governance and regulatory environment.
The issue concludes with Integritax, covering tax assessment prescription, interest deductibility, the UK Venture Capital Trust Scheme, Carbon Tax, transfer pricing and intangibles, SARS verification, place of effective management, digital tax administration, deceased estates, capital gains tax, GAAR developments and VAT deregistration.
