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6 Reasons To Look at Your Financial Reports
Making time to look over your financial reports each month is an important task for ...
Your business deserves proper management accounts
For a moment, let’s think back to when we were kids and started to read ...
Press Release: ThriveCFO launches debt recovery service
ThriveCFO is proud to announce that they are the first SA Based Accounting Firm that ...
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Individuals can start filing taxes from 1 July 2022
The South African Revenue Services (SARS) has announced that taxpayers will be able to file ...
6 Reasons To Look at Your Financial Reports
Making time to look over your financial reports each month is an important task for ...
Your business deserves proper management accounts
For a moment, let’s think back to when we were kids and started to read ...
Press Release: ThriveCFO launches debt recovery service
ThriveCFO is proud to announce that they are the first SA Based Accounting Firm that ...
7 Ratios Every Business Should Know
There is a saying that says you can only manage what you measurethe only way ...
7 Steps to changing accountants effortlessly
From March each year onwards, we onboard loads of new customers and are always surprised ...
Financial Storytellers – ThriveCFO [Syft Analytics Case Study]
Being an entrepreneur can be frantic. Even if your business is growing organically, your time ...
How working from home could save you tax
What are the qualification requirements? There are four key elements to be eligible to claim ...
Pandemic Preparedness Tips for Your Business
The COVID-19 pandemic has caught most of us off guard. Who would’ve thought that the ...
A Guide to Business Recovery in the pandemic world
As you well know, the COVID-19 pandemic is not just a public health issue, it’s ...
How Small Businesses are Boosting Sales During COVID-19
We started 2020 with optimism and hope that this year's going to be better than ...
Cash vs Profits — The Differences Explained
In business, “the bottom line” gets all the glory. When people talk about the bottom ...
2020 Filing season looking a bit different
Earlier this year, the South African Revenue Services (SARS) announced that in light of its ...
Easy tips to building an online business
More and more people are leaving their office jobs and setting up an online business ...
Methods to try to increase your sales post COVID-19
For most businesses, increasing sales during this time will be very beneficial and may provide ...
How your business can thrive even in a recession
The pains caused by a recession can be excruciating, which is why most of us ...
Press release: Calypso Accounting announces name change to ThriveCFO
"It is a major milestone for the company as the cloud accounting market accelerates. A ...
3 Easy ways to benchmark your business
For many business owners, determining the success of a business comes down to how much ...
How to build a cash war chest when money is tight
Your "war chest" is the financial reserve your business has built up so you can ...
Tips to continue marketing on a shoestring budget
As many business owners are experiencing, the COVID-19 pandemic has created serious financial difficulties for ...
Cost-reduction tactics for small businesses
At a time like this, money is tight for pretty much every business. Cutting costs ...
Five ways to increase your profit
For many small businesses, the best way to improve profitability is to increase turnover, as ...
Top 7 Benefits of Outsourcing Your Accounting
Cloud accounting has been gaining more and more traction over the last few years. It ...
Why cloud accounting is good for business
If you want your business to work smarter and faster, cloud accounting software is a ...
Questions to ask as your small business recovers from COVID-19
As small business owners look to operations after COVID-19, there are some important business questions ...
Battling Through COVID-19: Finance Tips for Business Survival
We’ve heard this before: the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global health and financial crisis ...
8 Steps to Leading People Successfully through Major Change
Change in business is almost always a good thing, but often poor management means that ...
Prepare a business plan for COVID-19 recovery (free template)
You probably didn't factor a global pandemic and national lockdown into your business plan! So ...
Beyond COVID-19 – How to build value in your business
We've said it before and we'll say it again - this has been an extremely ...
Digital at the heart of the business model
"Technology is like electricity. It just is. It is all about how we implement it ...
COVID-19 TERS benefit to assist employers and workers during lockdown
The Minister of Employment and Labour, T.W Nxesi has recently announced measures that the Department ...
Additional tax measures to help businesses during lockdown
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has announced further tax measures to assist businesses and their ...
Covid19 Support for tourism industry
In light of the constraints put upon the tourism and hospitality sectors in order to ...
Corona 2.0 – What does your post-Covid19 look like?
Any one who has been mauled by a wave crashing on top of you would ...
Scaling through tough times with an information product
Regardless of the industry we operate in, we all have a passion for something that ...
What got us here, may not get us there
A week into #lockdown, and the reality of the unknown has set in. We all ...
Covid19 update – How do I claim UIF?
We've been on #lockdown for a week now and the reality of business cash flow ...
Application guidelines for coronavirus assistance to South African SMEs
Business owners are bombarded with information from all sides, so we have summarised the different ...
Covid19 Lockdown – Your business first aid kit
We've all figured out what to do to keep ourselves busy with under lockdown. Luckily ...
4 Tips for Getting Your Business Through Tough Times
No doubt that we are facing unique challenges at the moment and we can be ...
Can you trust your bookkeeping data?
We are super chuffed to be part of this drive towards cleaner data and ...
Business owner first! Accountant second.
Luan gets the opportunity to talk about one of the principles he firmly believes in. ...
COVID19 Lockdown – What about my staff?
COVID-19 Lockdown – 27 March to 16 April 2020 Please note: The information provided in ...
How to manage a cash crisis
No doubt that some businesses have already felt the pinch of cash slowing down. Others ...
Finding cash in your business
"Luan, the ones with cash in the bank will get through this", rings in my ...
13 Must have tools for remote working
It’s no secret the world of work is transforming rapidly. Team collaboration is no longer ...
How to manage a remote team
Most businesses have now been forced to either shut down or figure out how they ...
Coping with employees working remotely full-time
The office as we know it is undergoing a massive change. According to a recent ...
Ways to prepare your business for employees working remotely
The office as we know it is undergoing a massive change. According to a recent ...
Case Study: Outdated bookkeeping holding your business back?
One of the biggest frustrations we as business owners can all relate to? The discipline ...
Budget or Cash Flow Forecast – which is best?
Planning for the future is essential for business success. Yet still, none of us ...
Do you have your financial GPS ready?
Since budgeting allows you to create a spending plan for your money, it ensures that you will ...
Diagnostic: 7 Ways poor cash flow is killing your business
Poor cash flow is when the incoming cash flow is insufficient to meet the outgoing ...
Provisional Tax Demystified
August and February are provisional tax months and everywhere we go we are bombarded with ...
Cash flow forecasting – your secret weapon
Maybe you know that you should be, but aren't already doing a cash flow forecast? ...
8 Steps to avoid the small business grim reaper
Almost 50% of small businesses list cash flow as their biggest source of stress ...
5 Critical steps to truly understanding your business
Claiming ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse for the lack of performance of your ...
10 Tips For Daily Cashflow Management
Whether you have just started out or been in business for a while, you've come ...
We’ll take you from chaos to control in 5 easy steps
During the last 36 months we've helped a hundred plus businesses transform how they ...
Track your critical numbers for a successful business
To track your critical numbers is the golden key to a successful business. ...
7 Ratios Every Business Should Know
There are some key ratios every business should know to understand the viability and health ...
5 Surefire Ways to Increase Your Profit Margins
The best way to fatten your bank balance as a small-business owner is to increase ...
8 Signs you desperately need an accountant
Hiring an accountant has become somewhat of a grudge purchase, but trust as when we ...
Is your accountant talking digital business strategy?
“But it’s my accountants we’re talking about – they need to give me the numbers. ...
Why your business deserves a new accountant
Until as recent as two years ago, I can recall how much effort it took ...
Why your business needs the cloud
Business owners across the world marvel and quiver simultaneously at the mere speed at which ...
2015 Filing Season for individuals kicked off
1 July 2015 announced the start of the 2015 filing season for Individuals. ...
Why cloud accounting is good for business
If you want your business to work smarter and faster, cloud accounting software is a ...
Introducing the SARS IT14SD form
SARS introduced a new supplementary declaration – known as an IT14SD – in which the ...
Should I invest in a Retirement Annuity
Tax deductions have become a talking point ever since Trevor Manual’s 13-year term as Finance ...
How does a small business pay less tax
Many businesses are classified or are being labeled as Small to Medium sized enterprises (SME’s). ...
How To Manage By The Numbers
We all have some relationship to money, and it is usually instilled upon us from ...
Special Tax Breaks Available To Hotels, Guesthouses And B&B’s
Do you own, or have you ever thought of opening a guesthouse or bed and ...
Companies You Can Choose From When Starting Your New Business
In South Africa, all companies used to be governed by The Companies Act, of 1973. ...
Shaping Your Financial Future
Most business owners have a lack of financial understanding in their businesses and so leave ...
NEW VAT Submission Deadline – Make Sure You Don’t Miss It
Value Added Tax (VAT), for most of the Small Business market is payable every second ...
To Trust Or Not To Trust – Final Installment
In the last three installments we have introduced you to the importance of having a ...
2013 Annual PAYE Reconciliation – Are you ready?
SARS has announced the opening of the 2013 Annual PAYE reconciliation filing season – All ...
6 Easy Steps To Beat The December Cash flow Blues
With the festive season around the corner, spirits are lifting and we are all looking ...
28 Tweetable Stats About Small Businesses Then vs. Now
In most small businesses it is really important to obtain some industry benchmarks and know ...
SARS Employment tax incentive
1 January 2014 not only saw the dawning of a new year but also ...
To Trust Or Not To Trust – Part 2
In the previous edition we touched base on the different options you as business owners ...
File your tax return – Silly season now open!
Our quick 10 point reference guide will enable you to file your tax return early ...
How To Transfer A Property Without Paying Tax
The Draft 2009 Taxation Laws Amendments Bill issued on 4 June 2009 contains a proposal ...
3 Easy Steps To Ensure The Survival Of Your Business
Everyone owning a business weighs up the scales of risk and reward on a daily ...
Budget Speech 2013 – How it affects you
Minister Pravin Gordhan recently held the new National Budget Speech for 2013. This is a ...
Compensation Fund admits system is shambolic
Compensation Fund admits system is shambolic By Wiseman Khuzwayo Despite a promise last year by ...
Important Notes For Newly Appointed Directors
The new Companies Act, 71 of 2008 has numerous changes for the appointment, resignation, removal, ...
5 Reasons Why You Could Fail A SARS VAT Audit
When submitting your VAT return, according to certain parameters, SARS now has the discretion to ...
Income Tax Act Benefiting Public Benefit Organisations (PBO’s)
Public Benefit Organisations (PBO’s) are established to conduct activities which benefit the general public. Due ...
Buy-sell agreements – Part 2
In the last week’s article, we introduced you to the concept of buy-sell agreements. In ...
Keep The Cash Flowing
Cash flow is one of the major concerns that keeps small business owners awake at ...
The Pitfalls Of Turnover Tax
One would have to applaud government for finally realising that they would have to take ...
Individual Taxpayers! Expenses you are allowed to deduct
You need to submit your tax return and don't know which expenses you are allowed ...
Buy-and-sell agreements – Part 1
The 1st in a 3 part series, this article will introduce you to buy-and-sell agreements ...
How To Better Manage Your Cash
Think of cash as the fuel that runs your business. Lacking cash can leave you ...
How far back can I claim pre-trade expenses?
A very common question was raised in the boardroom last week during a consultation ...
What Does Residential Property, Sex And Tax Have In Common?
It is not every day that these three 3 phrases are used in the same ...
Beware These Four Statutory Deduction Pitfalls On Your Payroll
When a business acts as an employer, there are certain statutory requirements that the business ...
Individual Taxpayers! Expenses you are allowed to deduct. (Part 2)
In the previous article we discussed the first set of allowable deductions on your personal ...
The ‘know how’ of Travel Allowances
Similar to last week's article on Subsistence Allowances, we thought it wise to share this ...
Your Payroll System Needs To Be Updated With New UIF Limits
The employee contributes 1% towards UIF and the employer contributes another 1% on behalf of ...
A refresher on Subsistence Allowances
We recently had numerous questions regarding subsistence allowances from customers restructuring their employees’ salary packages ...
How to set up a credit push SARS payment?
Starting 4 September 2013, debit pull transactions on eFiling will be phased out and discontinued. ...
2 Step Guide To Maternity Leave
Every female worker knows that she’s entitled to maternity leave. We however realized from the ...
To Trust Or Not To Trust – Part 3
In the previous two editions we highlighted the risks that every small business owner faces, ...
Love Your Budget
Okay, let’s be real. Most business owners don’t create budgets.
This is understandable. It is also ...
Buy-sell agreements – Part 3
In the previous 2 articles, we touched base on the overview of the importance of ...
To Trust Or Not To Trust – Part 1
In this first of a four part series, we highlight the importance of protecting your ...
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