Ensuring resilience in the face of rising unemployment One in three South Africans are currently without a job, as the country battles its highest unemployment rate since 2008... Sep 15, 2021
SMEs rate these 3 technologies as crucial to business resilience There are upsides to having your business enter survival mode. Necessity strips away cost and drives innovation. On the ... Sep 11, 2021
How tech can enable more women in the workforce As we concluded Women’s Month in August, we were served a bitter and cold dish in the form of Stats SA’s Quarterly Labou... Sep 10, 2021
The Resurgence: Sage research shows small South African businesses are ready to try again A year into COVID, small businesses and accountants are ready to try again with resilience, readiness, and confidence fo... Sep 1, 2021
How AI super-powers finance systems Digital technologies are transforming every aspect of our professional and personal lives. While certainly disruptive... Aug 5, 2021
Six reasons to use your small business for good People used to believe that doing good and good business (read: profit) were incompatible. But the world has changed in ... Jul 19, 2021
What’s needed to drive youth employment in South Africa? More than ever before, South African youth find themselves in dire need of solutions to counter the rising rate of unemp... Jun 16, 2021
4 challenges facing female entrepreneurs in South Africa Considering the impact of COVID-19 on small businesses in South Africa, 2021 may not seem like the year for entrepreneur... Jun 1, 2021
4 major shifts driving the Future of Finance The threat of a third COVID wave and stricter lockdown rules looms larger every day. By now, everyone knows the preca... May 27, 2021
How to make your data influential A practical decision-making function is the heartbeat of every business. In the past, people made decisions that reli... May 19, 2021
The future of finance and the pursuit of foresight Transaction processing. Reporting. Compliance. A traditional finance wheelhouse primarily concerns itself with these ... May 18, 2021
Unleash your business’s potential with Sage add-ons Every business wants to boost performance, streamline processes, and improve on the customer experience. What often happ... May 3, 2021
Fulltime side hustling: 7 commandments Many of us have fantasised about leaving our day jobs to start a business where we can enjoy the perks of being an owner... Apr 26, 2021
Budget2021: What a relief for taxpayers With the National Treasury announcing plans in October 2020 to increase the tax take by R40 billion over the next three ... Feb 25, 2021
Budget2021: Positive moves on income taxes, but where is the focus on small businesses? Many taxpayers will be thankful that Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Budget Speech for the 2021/2 tax year offers real r... Feb 25, 2021
Tech is replacing accountants, but their new role is much more valuable In 2006, I predicted that accounting as we knew it then would be redundant by the turn of the decade. At the time, techn... Feb 24, 2021
What will Budget2021 hold when most businesses and consumers don’t have more to give? Finance Minister Tito Mboweni still faces all last year’s challenges such as funding cash-strapped state-owned enterpris... Feb 22, 2021
Sage – 2021 HR predictions: Technology unlocks the potential of a hybridised workforce as digital transformation accelerates 2020 was perhaps the most challenging and important year for HR on record. As businesses struggled against the global pa... Jan 8, 2021
Global Entrepreneurship Week: Learning to dance in the hurricane “The reason I exist online is to break down the prosperity gospel of entrepreneurship: not everyone is going to make it.... Nov 20, 2020
The Digital Finance Future: Transformative change is coming COVID-19 exposed wasteful expenditure and inefficient processes across the finance function; issues we may not have noti... Nov 3, 2020
What will accounting clients need in a post-COVID world? With the Coronavirus raging across the globe, many accountants have been with their clients every step of the way. T... Oct 11, 2020
3 accounting practice improvements, according to customers In the latest version of The Practice of Now survey, respondents were asked what pain-points their businesses experience... Sep 11, 2020
Disrupting the accounting profession: 3 ways to grow and thrive “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” – J.D Rockefeller. Over the last few months, accounting ... Sep 11, 2020
CFO 3.0: How digital transformation can improve financial reporting Sage’s CFO 3.0: Digital transformation beyond financial management research revealed that nine out of 10 senior financia... Aug 14, 2020
