Accounting professionals have helped businesses steer through the COVID outbreak, the unrest in July 2021, and recent KZN floods, supporting SMB resilience in difficult times. Throughout these challenges, accountants in practice are also coming to grips with disruption in their profession. 

This week Accounting Weekly looked at risk, resilience, and turning adverse situations into successful situations. These are three takeaways we got from writing the articles.

They say you should never let a good crisis go to waste. André Marais seems to have taken the adage to heart. During Covid, when most saw despair, he saw an opportunity. He launched Numberwize, an accounting firm serving clients in Gqeberha and the Garden Route.