Effective 1 March 2023: New Earnings Threshold and National Minimum Wage
Get in touch Effective 1 March 2023: New Earnings Threshold and National Minimum Wage Employers and their employees should take note of the increases from 1 March 2023 in both the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and the “Earnings Threshold” provided for in the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA). The threshold also impacts on employee […]
Five Essential Bookkeeping Tips for Small Businesses
Get in touch Five Essential Bookkeeping Tips for Small Businesses “Making good judgements when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership – it’s bookkeeping” (Dee Hock, Founder and CEO of VISA) Entrepreneurs have a lot to deal with on a daily basis. From managing customers to ordering stock, handling marketing and networking […]
How To Prepare a Reliable Disaster Recovery Plan
Get in touch How To Prepare a Reliable Disaster Recovery Plan “The time to prepare for disasters is before they happen” (Stephen Matheson, Vice President of Product at BridgeHead) If there is one thing the recent market and global economy has taught us, it’s that almost anything can happen and it’s wise to plan ahead. […]
Budget 2023: Your Tax Tables and Tax Calculator
Get in touch Budget 2023: Your Tax Tables and Tax Calculator The big Budget Speech 2023 tax news was the introduction of tax incentives for investing in rooftop solar and renewable energy. The Budget also detailed tax relief in the form of adjusted tables for tax and rebates for individual taxpayers, adjusted tables for retirement […]
Budget 2023: How It Affects You and Your Business
Get in touch Budget 2023: How It Affects You and Your Business “This is not an austerity budget. It is a budget that makes tough trade-offs in the interests of the country’s short and long term prosperity.” (Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana – Budget 2023) Budget 2023 focussed firmly on the energy State of Disaster. The […]
Risk Management for Your SME
Get in touch Risk Management for Your SME “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but in calculating risk and acting decisively” (Niccolo Machiavelli) We are all aware that business, as with life, is full of risks and things go wrong from time to time. Some of […]
Lessons for Your Business: How Does the World’s Most Successful Company Keep Growing?
Get in touch Lessons for Your Business: How Does the World’s Most Successful Company Keep Growing? Amazon is now regarded as the best company in the world – its market capitalisation is approaching R800 billion and its founder Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest man. Year after year in customer satisfaction surveys Amazon invariably comes […]
Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: How to Stay Healthy and Profitable
Get in touch Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: How to Stay Healthy and Profitable Today getting an SME going is incredibly difficult as they face enormous red tape (FICA, getting loans, VAT registration and so on) and have difficulty getting access to money as financial institutions prefer funding large corporates where, for a similar amount of […]
Have You Been Hacked? Check Now!
Get in touch Have You Been Hacked? Check Now! In May this year data the ViewFines website was hacked, exposing a database containing the passwords, cell phone numbers, email addresses and I.D.s of 934,000 South African drivers with traffic fines. “If you think you may be at risk from the ViewFines data leak, read this article for […]
Will Cash Disappear From Society?
Get in touch Will Cash Disappear From Society? “Forewarned is forearmed” (Wise old proverb) In the last decade we have witnessed the slow death of the cheque. Today we have Bitcoin, payment apps and increasing use of the Internet and credit cards, so the question arises is cash also going to disappear? If so, it […]