Overview 

In response to the current pandemic, three great minds in the financial sector are coming together for a full discussion on the expected negative economic growth. The panel will discuss how this new economy will create enormous challenges to business entities and individuals. Further, they will present options on how SMEs can grow sustainably with the support and help of their accountants and auditors.

The webinar serves as an information sharing platform on options to assist auditors and accountants to expand and improve their service delivery in satisfying short, medium and long-term needs.

Join Christeen van Jaarsveld, Piet De Jongh and Ciaran Ryan on 28 April 2020 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. as they discuss financial solutions for survival and sustainable growth during and post COVID-19. 

Learning objectives

By the end of this event the participant should:

• Understand how this pandemic is affecting individuals and businesses;
• Know how the economy has been affected up to this point;
• Know the expected future economic outlook;
• Know survival and growth strategies that can be adopted going forward; and
• Understand how the accountant and auditor can assist.

Content

The webinar will cover the following topics:

• Present and future effects of COVID-19 to individuals and businesses.
• How has the economy been affected?
• Assisting the SME owner to survive and grow.
• Role of the accountant and auditor in mitigation.
• Economic outlook and fixing what has been broken.

Obtaining your CPD certificate

This webinar is free and does not qualify you for any CPD hours.

About the presenters

Christeen van Jaarsveld

Christeen’s passion is helping people find finance solutions, she was awarded many achievements in the mortgage origination industry sector as top sales consultant. She prides herself in helping clients find workable finance solutions. After 16 years in the finance industry she was privileged to meet up with Piet de Jongh to help developer a Financial Intermediary business that offers a full 360-degree financials solution for business, commercial, industrial, agricultural and individual clients.

Piet De Jongh

Piet’s journey saw him gaining experience at the coal face, middle, and executive management levels in the banking and financial intermediary markets. His entrepreneurial mindset causes him to be constantly seeking opportunities to find innovative solutions for financing needs of business entities and individuals and, together with Christeen, led to the establishment of the first 360-degree “non-bank, personal banker” financial intermediary service in South Africa offering wealth creation, protection and recovery solutions through an associated network of credit and service providers, funders and financiers. He is driven to achieve value-adding experiences to all stakeholders.

Ciaran Ryan

Ciaran Ryan is a financial journalist with more than 30 years’ experience. He currently edits Accounting Weekly (www.accountingweekly.com) and is a regular contributor to Moneyweb, Groundup, Mining Decisions and other publications. He has written at various times for Mail & Guardian, Finweek, Financial Mail, Business Day, Destiny Man, Independent Newspapers, Noseweek, to name a few. He also has a background in mining and was previously production manager for a gold mining operation in Ghana. He has authored several books, including Platinum Man and Dictionary of Stock Market Terms

Who should attend

The following persons will benefit from attending this webinar:

• Professional Accountants including: RA(SA), CA(SA),PA(SA) and BAP(SA);
• Practice owners;
• Small business owners; and
• Economists.

Price

This webinar is free.

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