May 10, 2022
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Are you making enough money to cover your expenses and live the lifestyle you’d hoped entrepreneurship would support? Here are some ways you can squeeze more profit out of your business. Business is picking up, you’re winning customers, your product or service is being well received, but you’re barely making […]
June 7, 2020
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Asset manager urges young South Africans to become investment-savvy. Anyone who turns on the news occasionally will know that the word ‘inflation’ crops up quite frequently. But what does it actually mean and why should we be bothered about what’s gone up and what’s come down? Generally speaking, inflation refers […]
February 23, 2020
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Cash flow is the lifeblood of business; without it a business cannot fulfil its financial obligations on time, advises Jesse Weinberg, Head of the SME Customer Segment, FNB Business. Obligations include paying suppliers, staff salaries or tax. “The goal of cash flow management is to ensure that the business has […]
December 8, 2019
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More than 3,000 South African business have been placed in business rescue since 2011. Only a third are still in business. Theoretically, government now loses all say over SAA. In the early morning hours of Thursday, minister of public enterprises Pravin Gordhan confirmed that SAA will be placed into […]
November 12, 2019
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They’re riddled with self-serving estimates. Ethical problem – or is there something in IFRS that makes it prone to manipulation? We urgently need an answer, says Saiba CEO Nicolaas van Wyk. Image: Shutterstock The accounting profession is having a crisis, and not just in South Africa. The monumental […]