Aug 5, 2021 4 min read How AI super-powers finance systems Digital technologies are transforming every aspect of our professional and personal lives. While certainly disruptive...
Jul 19, 2021 4 min read 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 ...
Jun 16, 2021 5 min read 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 1, 2021 5 min read 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...
May 27, 2021 5 min read [Webinar] 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 19, 2021 3 min read 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 18, 2021 3 min read The future of finance and the pursuit of foresight Transaction processing. Reporting. Compliance. A traditional finance wheelhouse primarily concerns itself with these ...
May 3, 2021 2 min read 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...
Apr 26, 2021 5 min read 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...
Feb 25, 2021 2 min read 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 3 min read 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 24, 2021 4 min read 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 22, 2021 3 min read 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...
Jan 8, 2021 4 min read 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...
Nov 20, 2020 4 min read 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 3, 2020 4 min read 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...
Oct 11, 2020 4 min read 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...
Sep 11, 2020 5 min read 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 4 min read 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 ...
Aug 14, 2020 4 min read 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...
Mar 20, 2020 5 min read How to ensure COVID-19 doesn’t slow your business down It’s all about preparation and not panic when it comes to business resilience Now more than ever, businesses need to ad...
Mar 20, 2020 3 min read Coronavirus: Six ways to keep your business moving At a time when many small businesses in South Africa are already struggling as a result of the recession, the global COV...
Mar 19, 2020 3 min read How to successfully run your business from virtually anywhere As a small business owner, you are more than likely tired of paying expensive commercial rentals and fighting traffic da...
Mar 12, 2020 4 min read Six strategies for recession-proofing small businesses With South Africa officially entering a technical recession in the fourth quarter of 2019, it’s tough out there for smal...
