July 2018

It has become a global phenomenon measuring Tax Freedom Day, the day up to which you work to pay your taxes – only after Tax Freedom Day do you start working for yourself. In 2018 it takes us South Africans 133 days or 39% of our working time to pay our taxes. Generally, the trend […]

Life, as we all know, is full of risk. Things go wrong all the time, in business and in our personal lives. As Machiavelli pointed out 500 years ago “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but in calculating risk and acting decisively”. We share some thoughts

“XBRL” may sound like a new Star Wars Droid, but in fact it’s a global standard for exchanging and reporting business information, and our CIPC (Companies and Intellectual Property Commission) requires you to use it from 1 July for all Annual Financial Statements. Let’s take a look at how XBRL works, what its benefits are