Monthly Accounting Update Solution

Calendar of Webinars for 2024

Important Notes:

• These live webinars are recorded and can be accessed on-demand from your profile after the scheduled events.

Monthly Compliance and Legislation Update

The Monthly Compliance and Legislation Update gives you access to latest changes and updates at SARS, CIPC, accounting, auditing, tax, labour and other laws applicable to you and your business. This is a monthly 2-hour webinar alternatively presented by Lettie Janse van Vuuren CA(SA) and Caryn Maitland CA(SA) where they research, summaries and present all this information to you in a simple and understandable format.

Topics covered include:

Accounting: Updates regarding financial reporting and the accounting pronouncements, e.g. proposed and effective changes to International Accounting Standards (IAS), IFRS, IFRS for SMEs, etc. It also encompasses important news from IFAC, SAICA, standard-setting authorities and other relevant role players in the financial reporting field.

Auditing and assurance services: Updates regarding new auditing pronouncements, e.g. proposed and effective changes to International Standards of Auditing (ISAs), South African Auditing Practice Statements (SAAPS), etc. It also encompasses important news from IRBA and other relevant role players about assurance services (i.e. auditing and independent review), non-assurance services, etc.

Company secretarial: Updates and important notices released by CIPC, the Companies Tribunal and the Compliance Unit.  It may also include general information on upcoming deadlines and other relevant information regarding the performance of company secretarial and related services.

Employment law: This usually includes updates to the BCEA, sector-specific determinations setting out minimum wage rates, as well as publications containing lessons to be learnt from case law and judgments, e.g. CCMA, Labour Court, Supreme Court of Appeal, etc.

Other laws and regulations: This usually includes publications regarding various other Laws and Regulations, e.g. BBBEE, Consumer Protection Act, National Credit Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act, etc.

Overview of SAICA Big 5 for SMPs: Overview of the developments in the profession as highlighted by SAICA e.g. NCR Guidance, Draft Acts, Regulations, Bills, Amendment Acts, Government Gazette Notices, etc.

Taxation: Overview of the developments in the tax profession as highlighted by SAIT e.g. new income tax pronouncements, interpretation notes, guides, etc. It also encompasses important news about SARS operations, eFiling, etc.

Regulatory news: Updates to notices, articles, guides and press releases from relevant regulators in our industry, e.g. IRBA, SAICA, SAIT, FIC, FSB, JSE,Law Society SA and Fidelity Fund, Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB), SAIBA, FRSC etc.

General announcements: Includes notices, articles and press releases from relevant stakeholders, e.g. ombudsman, etc. It also encompasses important news about SARS operations, eFiling, Newspaper articles, Technical magazines, Regulators issuing general news items, General media articles.

Monthly Accountants Tech Talk Discussion Forum

The Accountants Tech Talk discussion forum is hosted by Caryn Maitland CA(SA) and Carmen Westermeyer CA(SA). This discussion forum is not a traditional webinar or seminar that is developed by presenters, it is a live and interactive forum to deal with current issues experienced by accounting professionals.

When accountants engage with their clients the challenges and issues they encounter are not siloed into strictly tax or accounting issues for example. The issue that is put on the table is often integrated and involves different viewpoints and perspectives to give a full and well-rounded solution to your client.

Decisions are often made with a focus on an area, for example the tax implications, but as the project or agreement is implemented, other areas in accounting, legislation, BEE may trigger or prove problematic.

These sessions are lively sessions that involve presenters with different skills and specialisation that interrogate, debate and compare aspects of a topic. We will look at the topic or issue from every angle and offer insight to the delegates into the pros and cons, challenges and benefits and potential tripwires that exist. We will look at the differences between the accounting treatment, tax implications and legislation that affect the topic under the spotlight.

These sessions are held monthly and are intended to provide you with solutions and answers to your current issues.

Who is this Monthly Accounting Update solution for?

This solution is suitable for individuals who are accountants, auditors, bookkeepers or tax practitioners.

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