The latest State of City Finances report shows that cities face ever tightening budgets and are plagued by structural issues, including a shortage of professional staff and stagnating revenue.

A growing and vibrant economy. A service outsourcing juggernaut and a nation with a proud culture and history. That's what CIBA delegates experienced during their visit to the 21st World Congress of Accountants in India last month.

The Auditor General is no longer just pointing out problems with financials, it’s threatening to hold accounting officers personally liable.

A glimpse into how tender corruption works and the role accountants play, based on insights from the recent CIBA Public Procurement Summit and work by Corruption Watch.

Tom Seidenstein, the chairperson of the IAASB, recently visited South Africa and shared his thoughts on the country’s audit scandal crisis and ESG.

Professor Firoz Cachalia intends to push for a new anti-corruption agency that addresses systemic corruption and “aspirant scumbags.”

Gauteng should focus on green industries if it wants to grow. Government should also concentrate on spending existing funds wisely rather than seeking new revenue, according to Gauteng’s new Finance MEC.

Speaking at CIBA’s Practice Management Conference, speakers explained that the South African economy, particularly the retail sector needs accountants. However, not the traditional kind.

In the lead-up to the Practice Management Conference, Bernard Agulhas who worked with the Zondo Commission and is the former CEO of IRBA, sharedhis insights on how the accounting industry is responding to State Capture.

It was a case of back to school for the attendees of the Practice Management Conference. They learnt about the challenges and opportunities for accountants in the school sector.

Experts outlined some of the challenges and rewards of working with non profits at the annual Practice Management Conference.

In his annual Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana had some good news, some bad, and when you think of Eskom and economic growth, some ugly news. Here is the story in four graphs.

South Africa’s retail sector is massive. Zinhle Tyikwe, CEO of the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa, explains some of the challenges and opportunities for businesses and accountants in this space.

Tevin Sandile Ncube’s journey to accounting success is over two decades in the making and involves hard work, networking, and not letting the lockdown go to waste.

Concerns about the potential of being placed on the "grey list" grow as South Africa's time of surveillance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) draws to a conclusion. The flaws of the nation, the possible effects of greylisting, and the planned changes to current legislation that could have an influence on accountants are all covered in this article

The conventional route to becoming an accountant and eventually starting your own practice is well trodden and lengthy. We spoke to Dennis Kibungu, who has used SAIBA’s designations to take a shortcut and leap years ahead of his peers.

Imre Nagy, new CEO of the auditing regulating body IRBA, has had time to work out what has gone radically wrong and how to fix it.

The golden thread from our interview with Chwayita Deliwe about her career is that it takes more than just accounting skills to make an excellent accountant

Meet Juliana Zvarimwa, she is an entrepreneur and a qualified Business Accountant in Practice (BAP) duly registered with CIBA

Annalien Carstens CA(SA) is the managing director of Altimax, a company that has spent nearly 20 years trying to help more than 140 municipalities succeed. We spoke to her about why, despite interventions, local government is increasingly falling apart.