Tag: Pieter Bensch

Global Entrepreneurship Week celebrated entrepreneurs and aims to inspire more young people to make their mark in society. It's a timely reminder that we need to support youth entrepreneurship in South Africa to address our unemployment crisis and catalyse economic growth.

Up until a few years ago, digital transformation was not high on the agenda for most finance chiefs. Though they recognised that IT was important, most CFOs thought of digital as a technology play, a channel strategy or a customer experience concern.

According to QuickBooks, there are already more than 700 apps that are assisting accountants to automate processes and reduce their workload. Gone are the days where accountants can be mere number crunchers, who collate and check data and allocate it to the correct cost centre. The future accountant will have transformed her/himself into a financial advisor, adding value to businesses by offering strategic advice, consulting and financial planning.

Where is the focus on growing South Africa’s small business sector? That is the overriding question we are left with at the end of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s maiden budget speech. The few mentions the Minister made about Small & Medium Businesses were short on detail at a time when we desperately need to supercharge the growth of this segment.

The clock is ticking for African companies to get ready for the  General Data Protection Regulation. The European Union’s new data privacy regime has massive implications for African organisations.