Theft is more common than ever before! Preventative measures ought to be taken to protect a company's assets – both material and electronic. As criminals become smarter, business owners must create a security strategy for long-term protection.

If your company is thinking of selling any capital assets and its year end is not February or March there may be a window of opportunity to do it at the lower effective tax rate for a short while.

Considered by many a different form of "capital punishment" – or at least a lifelong sentence. So investors would have paid keen attention to the tax amendments put forward in National Treasury's 2012/13 Budget, and would have watched as further judgment was handed down.

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivered a safe, no real surprises budget today (Tuesday 22 February) with R9.5-billion personal tax relief achieved by increasing the personal tax brackets

When a company is placed under business rescue, the question arises as to the enforceability of a suretyship given for the debts of or by the company.

A 2011 Australian court decision in BOS International v Babcock ruled that an undertaking in a commercial agreement to provide information about a company's assets and financial position overrides a confidentiality clause in a directors & officers insurance policy.