10 Best Accounting Firms in Paarl

10 Best Accounting Firms in Paarl

10 Best Accounting Firms in Paarl

Are you looking for the best accounting firms in Paarl?

Auro Professional Paarl

Trusted Family Wealth Office

About our accounting firm:

We consider our firm to be so much more than your everyday accounting firm.

We pride ourselves with excellent service and continuity.  Our focus is on the co-ordination of the various elements of your wealth structures for optimal efficiency and maximum simplicity. We believe it is vitally important that the interaction between the relevant elements of wealth, risk and taxation planning be constantly evaluated to ensure optimal structures and succession planning.

T: +27 21 879 3100 | C: +27 76 881 0441 | E: info@auroprofessional.com | W: www.auroprofessional.com

NIEL DU PLESSIS

Niel has over 10 years’ experience working as chief financial officer and operations executive in the manufacturing and information technology sectors. This contributed to a very practical understanding of the financial, fiduciary and administrative aspects within business and also the operational aspects associated with manufacturing, from supply chain to production management on an international scale.

He also has vast experience from working within the corporate advisory environment providing services to entities ranging from listed companies to individual enterprises. Services ranged from tax consulting, corporate governance, transaction structuring, auditing, accounting, family business structuring, black economic empowerment, human resource management and various training and development initiatives on socio-economic and financial aspects.

Niel is a Chartered Accountant (CA (SA)), Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) and registered tax practitioner.

T: +27 21 879 3100 | C: +27 76 881 0441 | E: info@auroprofessional.com | W: www.auroprofessional.com

AGRICULTURAL SECTOR

Agricultural business is not merely another sector we crunch numbers for, it is part of our very makeup.

Some of our team members come from farming families.  Specifically, our director, Niel du Plessis grew up on a diverse operational farm and is still involved in the running of various agricultural businesses.  If you combine this real-life farming experience with our sophisticated level of financial and accounting knowledge you have the perfect team to walk with you as your operation grows.

Legacy

We put great value in the fact that your agricultural business could be new or have a rich history.  Generations have been and will be involved in the years to come.  As a farming business you not only need to provide food for the world, but you need to put food on your own table.  We therefore become invested in your past, review your current situation, and help you to make plans and goals for the future generations to come. We believe it is vitally important that the interaction between the relevant elements of wealth, risk and taxation planning be constantly evaluated to ensure optimal structures and succession planning.

Adaptation

In agriculture you must be open to adapt and evolve with all the constant changes in methodology, technology, economy, competition, laws and taxes.  There are so many more elements that affect your business daily, like the weather, availability and cost of equipment and changes within your family.  We pride ourselves in being on top of the game to adapt your processes with your ever-changing business.

An agricultural business has unique needs, and we believe that Auro Professional has the necessary background and skills to understand and appreciate the business that you are in.

Contact Auro Professional today to receive more information about our accounting firm services in Paarl.

T: +27 21 879 3100 | C: +27 76 881 0441 | E: info@auroprofessional.com | W: www.auroprofessional.com

 

1. AURO PROFESSIONAL

We consider our firm to be so much more than your everyday accounting firm.

We pride ourselves with excellent service and continuity.  Our focus is on the co-ordination of the various elements of your wealth structures for optimal efficiency and maximum simplicity. We believe it is vitally important that the interaction between the relevant elements of wealth, risk and taxation planning be constantly evaluated to ensure optimal structures and succession planning.

The family wealth office is the one stop shop where the administrative, accounting, wealth, taxation and risk aspects of a family’s wealth and business affairs are managed collectively and holistically. This is achieved through interaction with existing service suppliers or the introduction of new service suppliers, but always coordinated with the family’s bigger wealth picture in mind.

But is this coordination necessary? Based upon my experience, it is a prerequisite! Consider the following pitfalls that are regularly encountered:

  • Accounting records are haphazard and unclear
  • Minutes of meetings are not kept or do not express the decisions that are taken and implemented
  • Wills are not signed correctly and are not accessible when needed or are contradictory to the testators wishes
  • Insufficient (or sometimes excessive) insurance cover for critical events
  • Non-compliance with Companies Act, Trust Property Control Act, Income Tax Act and other legislation
  • Inefficient tax planning and misalignment between the different elements of tax. Here the low levels of planning surrounding balance sheet tax is especially prevalent.
  • Poor communication between family members and no common goal alignment
  • Insufficient or lack of succession planning

A family’s wealth is just like a business, and needs to be managed as such. That being said, many businesses only perform as well as they are managed, this is where the opportunity and value contribution lies!

Our family wealth office specialises in the effective management and holistic coordination of family wealth. We work in conjunction with your existing service providers or manage the various elements of the family office internally based upon the specific circumstances of the client.

2. EXCEED

We offer a dedicated personal approach and believe that a business succeeds because it comprises people who live it, dream it and build great plans for its future. We are committed to maintaining the highest professional and technical standards and strive continually to grow our broad commercial knowledge and expertise.  With Exceed you have access to a comprehensive range of services, proven to help a growing business: auditing and assurance, accounting, tax advice and compliance services, company secretarial services, business advisory services (even extending to internal audits and corporate valuations) and specialised tax planning and consultation. Whatever your business requirements are, we have the expertise to help your company operate efficiently and grow exponentially.  

Exceed has an association with a reputable tax and advisory firm based in Perth, Australia. The firm’s services include the following:

  • Accounting and tax
  • Business advisory
  • Business transition
  • Superannuation and asset protection

This is a team of professionals with expert knowledge in business accounting, dynamic management reporting, tax consultancy and superannuation.

3. ENSLINS

Enslins Auditors in Paarl is a firm of Chartered Accountants (SA) providing quality and client centred assurance, taxation, accounting and Pastel Sage Consulting services to the corporate and private sector in South Africa.

Enslins Auditors comprises of nine (9) independently owned firms situated in the Northern Cape, Free State, North West, Gauteng and Western Cape provinces. For more information on the other provincial firms, please refer to the main page of our website and click the applicable office.

Enslins Auditors in Paarl was established in 2017 and prides itself on the quality of services provided over the years and the building of a recognised name in the Chartered Accountancy profession.

We believe in personal interaction with our clients, through which we establish strong, lasting relationships based on service delivery, exceptional quality and a reputation for adding continuous value.

The key pillars in our firm are integrity, quality, accountability, commitment and teamwork which continuously motivates and drives us to be exceptional leaders in our profession and to promote a culture of being knowledgeable in the various sectors in which we provide services.

4. HGG GROEP

Every individual and business owner want to know the state of affairs regarding their financial statements and also want to maintain a good relationship with the South African Revenue Service (SARS). HGG Professional Accountants are the experts to assist you with this. 

Accounting and auditing services

The following accounting and auditing services are offered:

  • Preparation of financial statements;
  • Finalisation of books to trial balance stage;
  • Maintenance of ledgers (debtors, creditors and nominal);
  • Monthly or annual bookkeeping services, using original/source documents;
  • Final appropriations;
  • Completion and submission of forms for VAT, PAYE, UIF, skills development and for the compensation commissioner;
  • Monthly management statements;
  • External and internal company audits in conjunction with chartered accountants;
  • Submission of Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB) reports;
  • Registration and submission of Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act;
  • Cape Law Society and Financial Services Board audits, and
  • Payroll administration.

Tax consulting

A transparent relationship with the South African Revenue Service (SARS) is vitally important to enable us to provide constructive and relevant tax advice to our clients. Our access to training, research and technology enhances this service offering.

These services include:

  • Tax planning, such as assisting our clients to compile an optimal package structure and with estate and secondary taxes, and
  • Tax administration, including applications for extension, arrangement of provisional tax payments, correspondence with SARS, tax registration services and compliance with statutory registrations such as VAT, PAYE, UIF, SDL and employer’s liability.

5. PWC

At PwC we have invested substantially to develop a disciplined, standardised methodology to drive audit quality and objectivity. All of our professionals are trained in the same methodology, ensuring the consistently high standards you expect of our firm.

To privately-owned companies we offer the services of trusted business advisors – dedicated staff that are trained and experienced in working with owner-managed and/or family-controlled organisations. Your trusted business advisor approaches your audit from a different perspective since the audit of a privately-owned company is usually conducted in a less complex environment than that of a corporate organisation. Through your trusted business advisor we offer you a “one stop” solution and access to all our services including tax planning, legal advice and a myriad of business advisory services.

We also offer industry expertise and sound working knowledge, best practice and benchmarking opportunities within specific industries. Our high-quality, risk-based audit approach will provide the basis for a meaningful advisory role. Our approach also relies on the support of information system specialists from our Performance Improvement service offering.

6. ZOMERSIG CA (SA)

Our Approach

It starts with our people. We try our best to employ, train and retain the best staff possible. Our team include qualified chartered and professional accountants, university graduates and many of them with years of experience in the industry. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not hesitate to employ people from all walks of life, as long as they meet our requirements for ability, ambition, and integrity. Our staff members have both the academic qualifications as well as the experience to properly do the job they are hired for.

We can prepare financial statements of all entities, from sole proprietors; partnerships, trusts and close corporations to IFRS statements required by public companies.

Should you wish to outsource your monthly bookkeeping and administration like VAT, Payroll taxes and other statutory requirements, we can supply that service, including monthly management accounts.

Even your full payroll function, including the submission of statutory returns to SARS, can be outsourced to us.

We also provide a full accounting function whereby monthly creditor’s recons and payment administrations is outsourced to our offices.

We can assist with internal audits should a company want to outsource that function rather than having their own internal audit department.

7. COENRAAD VAN DER WALT CA (SA)

Coenraad van der Walt CA(SA) GR(SA) aims to cater to a very specific niche in the market and we are definitely not your normal accounting firm. The clients we aim for and the services we offer are focused on businesses we can partner with and services we can be passionate about.

Our target market consists of the following:

  • Audit firms requiring partner/director equivalent resources to assist with quality and risk management.
  • Entrepreneurs in need of skilled financial resources on a part time or ad hoc basis.
  • Development financing institutions wanting to assist the entities they finance with senior level mentors or consultants.
  • Non-governmental organisations in development finance and community development requiring financial oversight for the projects they are financing.

The services we offer to these clients include the following:

  • Engagement Quality Control Reviews for audit firms that requires an independent opinion.
  • Assistance to audit firms with the performance of audits on a sub-contracted basis.
  • Independent financial management functions for startups and smaller entities who require specialised financial skills but whose size do not justify a fulltime resource.
  • Consulting to development financing entities by providing financial and management support to the businesses they finance.
  • Financial controller and accounting functions to NGO’s by ensuring proper accounting and compliance with grant conditions. 

8. EXPERITY ACCOUNTING SERVICES

We know you’re knee-deep in a to-do list as it is, so we’re going to keep this short and sweet. Experity Accounting is a future-focussed accounting and business management firm that lives for making the lives of business owners as easy as possible.

Think of us as the Goldilocks of accounting firms – not too big, not too small, just the right size to take care of all your accounting, tax, payroll, company registration, cloud-based technology integration and financial decision-making needs.

Whether your business is a freshly baked side hustle or an established, ever-growing enterprise that employs countless people (or somewhere in-between), we’re here to handle all the behind-the-scenes money matters that drives business development and will allow you to unlock the full potential of your company without breaking a sweat.

We like to keep things simple, but significant, and we bet you do too. Let us take care of the greenbacks so you can get back to the thing you do best – growing your business.

Comprehensive digital accounting allowing you to focus on growing your business and simplify your finances in an innovative way.

9. NSI

ABOUT US

Core Values
We as directors believe in personalised professional services, that adds value to our clients and their operations. 
We continuously strive to meet the needs of our clients and to improve our services to ensure that the NSi experience meets and exceeds our clients’ expectations. We are committed to continuing development in our personal capacity, so that we can advise and service our clients according to the most recent regulations and with the highest professional ethics.

Objectives
We strive to build a lifelong and loyal relationship with our clients. As the directors of NSi are young and very enthusiastic, we see this as a perfect opportunity for new and established businesses to build this relationship. This ever growing relationship will ensure that the operations of our clients are understood and will lead to better decision making and value added services to you as client. We strive to be more than just an annual “health check” for organisations, but rather as a partner to the further development of your business.

We strive to deliver timeously services that are up to date with the relevant compliance and regulatory requirements.

Target market
We identified a need among small and medium-sized entities for professional, personal and loyal services. Our vision is to grow as a firm that delivers these specific services that are required by the small and medium-sized market.

10. EMA

E Malan & Associates was established on 1 October 1983 by Eugene Malan. Our offices opened in the city centre in Roodepoort. From there we moved our offices to Florida on the West Rand.

Today we have five offices we employ approximately 100 people, some who have been with our company for over twenty years.

We are brought to state that our offices are managed by well trained and highly educated staff with many years experience between them.
It is our passion and aim to be of service to companies who value the importance of their accounting and tax matters.

We believe that it is our ability to understand our clients’ individual needs which enables us to make a difference. Our aim is to provide clients with a personalised and professional service based on trust, respect and the development of long term relationships.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Important things to do before you say ‘’I do’’

Important things to do before you say ‘’I do’’

Marriage can be a wonderful institution. Love, companionship, the rearing of children, spiritual togetherness and financial partnership – the list goes on and the benefits are great, but with one very specific condition…you need to go into it with your eyes wide open!

Whether it is the first marriage or a second or third, every time the circumstances will have changed and especially if you have not managed to make the first one work, perhaps you need to consider if, before you went into marriage, you really examined all the pros and cons and carried out the important things to do before you say ‘’I do?’’

Eliminate fears

Please don’t think this article is in any way designed to discourage you from getting married – on the contrary, it is specifically designed, together with the collaboration of a couple of my trusted colleagues to assist you and just make sure that not all your efforts are placed simply on putting the big day together, but also on carrying out what may be the less enviable tasks that will ensure your marriage is a long-lasting and happy one.

One of the biggest fears, and the one that often leaves the Bride or Groom standing alone at the altar as their spouse makes a break for it out the side door of the Church, is that you are going to lose out on all the great things a single life can offer you.  

Well, truth be told, there are advantages to being single and forming a partnership for life is not easy. MARRIAGE IS DIFFICULT – this cannot be put any other way or emphasised enough, so without a doubt, well before you enter into it, you both need to face the reality that most marriages end in divorce and you need to ask the 64 million dollar question – ‘’why is this so?’’

About the author:

Marléne Nunes

Trained as a life coach, TRE advanced provider, QEC practitioner, Pilates & Callanetics instructor, massage therapist, facilitator and trainer; she has coached and trained scores of people through their own journey of mental and physical discovery and transformation. This is Marléne Nunes – living a life of purpose and offering over 35 years of working in the industry and even longer life experience.

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Has freeze replaced fight or flight as a response to fear?

Has freeze replaced fight or flight as a response to fear?

Right now with the recent events in the world, many people are feeling like they are simply in a state of limbo. What do you do when you don’t feel you can fight an unseen or unknown enemy or threat, as we have seen over the past 18 months, and flight is not an option? The result ultimately is that many of us, locked in our protective bubbles, have simply become frozen in time and space. 

Fear is the enemy

Added to these feelings of helplessness and being in limbo is the fear of the consequences of the recent unrest in our country. Now many of us suddenly don’t even feel safe in our bubbles and again begin to question these fight or flight options. 

Should we remain and fight our fears, or (like no doubt many will choose, as soon as they can travel freely again) should we head for what we believe to be safer pastures? Whatever your choices may be (albeit unconscious) and especially if you feel like remaining frozen is the only option available when facing any kind of fear, you need to learn a new response consciously based on the awareness of what triggers your fears. 

Simply ignoring how you are feeling emotionally and putting it on the back burner, will see you emotionally crippled before you know it – and then totally unable to make any important decisions that serve you or the greater humanity. 

Where are you right now?

The first and most important thing to do is to ask yourself (and honestly answer) a couple of important questions. “How are you feeling right now?” – and “how are you experiencing life at this moment?”

If you are feeling fear and, frozen in your response to it, living your life in limbo, then ask yourself this…”If there were skills you could acquire to release yourself from these fears and successfully fight the emotional upheaval and sense of limbo you have been feeling – would you do so?” – Or “as the leader of a workforce – if you could snap your employees out of this state of apathy that has resulted in poor productivity and little creative input – would you try to?”

An effective solution is at hand

To assist people struggling with emotional dis-regulation causing disharmony that ultimately will lead to impacting their physical bodies and cognitive functions, I am facilitating a 6-week workshop that will enable the utilisation of effective techniques and processes to release the fears and pain and move forward again.

It will equip you with the skills to move through your emotional responses to triggers with more insight, thereby negating their power over your responses. This is the art of self-regulation.

For many of us, flight is not an option, so it’s time for us to be more resourceful and open to alternate possibilities in the midst of what may seem like chaos. As a Master Coach, through my Coaching platform Self and More, I facilitate the combination of body, mind and soul practices to enable people in all walks of life to enjoy positive, productive lives with meaning and purpose, regardless of whatever trauma or circumstances they may have or be facing.

Sign up for the course – or just talk to me, and let me assist you to deal with whatever might be causing you to freeze when facing your fears.

Stay safe – and stay invested in your wellbeing!

 

About the author:

Marléne Nunes

Trained as a life coach, TRE advanced provider, QEC practitioner, Pilates & Callanetics instructor, massage therapist, facilitator and trainer; she has coached and trained scores of people through their own journey of mental and physical discovery and transformation. This is Marléne Nunes – living a life of purpose and offering over 35 years of working in the industry and even longer life experience.

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Are your values adding value to your life?

Are your values adding value to your life?

Once again we are being driven back into our COVID cocoons, sheltering ourselves from wave after wave of this cursed and relentless pandemic.

Like facing a tsunami that just won’t quit, many of us are drowning in financial issues, relationship issues and our issues of feeling helpless and scared of an onslaught that is bigger than all of us.

Even our work is no longer about the workplace but for many some remote work space that leaves us feeling detached and re-examining our life paths. Suddenly. change has swiftly left us all feeling unable to control our lives or our destiny – and that doesn’t sit easily with anyone. 

This is a time when AA’s serenity prayer “’God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference” seems very relevant to all of us.

So what can I, as a life and business coach, say to support you at this time? Well, firstly have the courage to examine the main thing in your life that can assist you to be at least more in control of your own feelings, emotions and reactions to this uncontrollable situation: your core values.

The lockdown situation has been a challenging one from all angles, not the least of which is our relationships, so this article sets out to try to give you a list of the values that will help to support you, drive you and make you someone not only happy within themselves but, at least, for the most part, a pleasure to be with!

WHAT ARE YOUR VALUES?

You need to think about the values you hold and whether these are your values or if they derived from the influences of others in your family or community, the media (particularly social media – sometimes very misleading!), the Government, or simply archetypal influences – i.e. women are expected to be nurturers and men are expected to be providers!

Don’t get me wrong – it is important and helpful to have some good core values. They can make life decisions and goals easier to create and define, and relationships easier to decide on. One with clear core values is less likely to have negative thought patterns, especially in difficult life situations, be more easily able to tolerate physical pain, have greater self-discipline and stronger social connections.

This is all good and well and if we were all the same and happy to adhere to a set of archetypal core values, we would not need to examine our values, but the reality is that we are not and if we are to live fulfilled and meaningful lives we must establish that the core values we hold are driving us forward and not just anchoring us to keep our heads underwater when we face the storms of life. As the pandemic has too clearly shown us: there is a finite time for which you can hold your breath! 

About the author:

Marléne Nunes

Trained as a life coach, TRE advanced provider, QEC practitioner, Pilates & Callanetics instructor, massage therapist, facilitator and trainer; she has coached and trained scores of people through their own journey of mental and physical discovery and transformation. This is Marléne Nunes – living a life of purpose and offering over 35 years of working in the industry and even longer life experience.

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What is a Business coach?

What is a Business coach?

What is a Business coach – and do I need one?          

Many people confuse Business Coaches with Life Coaches, understandably so because there are some common goals and many Business Coaches are also Life Coaches. As confusing as that may sound, all be revealed as we explore these two questions “What is a Business Coach – and do I need one?’’

It may be helpful if you read my previous article on ‘What is a Life Coach (and do I need one)? As you will already have a clearer idea of exactly what Life Coaches do. There is however a significant difference between these two types of Coaches so let’s begin with…

What is a Business Coach?

In essence, the Business Coach works on Coaching the Business Owner to achieve their goals for the business. That is the focus of the Business Coach, but this often involves working on the skills and aspirations of the individuals in the business, which is where some Life Coaching skills come in. So, obviously there is some integration of the two disciplines.

To simplify it a little – as one observer put it ”A Business Coach will assist and guide the Business Owner in running a business by helping them clarify the vision of their business and how it fits in with their personal goals. Business coaching is a process used to take a business from where it is now to where the business owner wants it to be.”

The Business Coach assists the owner – or his team, depending on the circumstances to set crystal clear goals and definitions of their values and work priorities. Together with the Business Owner, the Coach then maps out ways and timelines to achieving these goals.

A clear action plan is created on how to move ahead and progress, but along the way, the Business Coach guides and assists you to stay on track. There are of course many elements to a Business Coaching program – from the business plan to the people, to the financial aspects of maintaining the bottom line – and every Business Coach will have a different strategy.

About the author:

Marléne Nunes

Trained as a life coach, TRE advanced provider, QEC practitioner, Pilates & Callanetics instructor, massage therapist, facilitator and trainer; she has coached and trained scores of people through their own journey of mental and physical discovery and transformation. This is Marléne Nunes – living a life of purpose and offering over 35 years of working in the industry and even longer life experience.

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