CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo In this edition of our CFO Spotlight series, we are featuring Rofhiwa Irene Singo, an accomplished finance leader whose journey is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and impactful leadership. A pivotal moment came when I joined the Auditor-General’s office in Pretoria.

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Bramasol

MAY 13, 2024

Discover how SAP solutions lay a solid foundation for audits and next level PCAOB or AICPA compliance reviews. For any public company, the goal of successfully complying with periodic financial reviews by external auditors cannot be overstated.

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CFO Talks

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Members’ Profile: Ronel Jooste In this edition of our CFO Spotlight series, we are featuring Ronel Jooste, a dynamic force in the worlds of finance, wellness, and leadership development. I am currently busy with my John Maxwell Leadership Trainer & Coach certifications and might pursue my Masters degree next year.

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The Charity CFO

MAY 12, 2025

Theyre the people who spot errors in a sea of numbers and ensure the books are airtight and audit-ready. Trying to combine this role with the CFO function often fails because bookkeeping is structured and rule-bound , while financial leadership requires a more strategic, creative, and big-picture thinker.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Recognizing the need to enhance my managerial capabilities, I pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in Management, which equipped me with essential leadership skills. First and foremost is financial acumen—understanding financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and compliance is foundational.

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CFO Talks

JUNE 17, 2025

The CFO must lead the effort to close it, both through financial rigour and ethical leadership. Establishing Financial Credibility as a Foundation The first step in rebuilding market confidence is to restore the reliability of financial information. A scandal creates a credibility gap.

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Contrary to what many people envision, a nonprofit audit doesn’t usually start with a letter from the IRS. Instead, an independent nonprofit audit is something you choose to build trust in your nonprofit organization. An audit can be a critical step for a growing nonprofit that needs to raise increasing amounts of funds.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 13, 2025

Implement a Strict Conflict of Interest Policy Every nonprofit should require board members and key leadership to disclose conflicts of interest annually. This ensures accountability and makes audits or donor inquiries easier to manage. Do You Struggle to Make Sense of Your Financial Statements? Download it for later.

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CFO Talks

JUNE 20, 2025

With over 15 years of experience spanning finance, risk, procurement, and executive leadership, Rajesh brings a unique blend of technical acumen and business foresight to the CFO role. His leadership journey includes senior roles at Liquid Telecom, Neotel, Peresys, and Sheridans in London. How do you handle professional challenges?

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CFO Talks

MAY 29, 2025

Reporting Rules That Make or Break Your Reputation Financial reporting is often thought of as the final step in the business process, the box to tick at the end of the quarter or financial year. They understand that reporting, when done right, is not just a reflection of past performance. Its not flashy work.

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CFO Talks

APRIL 8, 2025

Holding an MSc, BSc, and FCCA qualification, Julius has made a remarkable impact in the finance sector, earning multiple prestigious awards, including the Chief Finance Officer of the Year Sustainability Award (2023) and the Financial Reporting Award (2023). Yes, I worked in Rwanda as an audit assistant, auditor, and later accountant.

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CFO Talks

JUNE 10, 2025

Most finance teams can deliver reports. They can reconcile accounts, update forecasts, and manage audit schedules. When reporting season, audits, or board meetings come up, mentoring is the first thing to fall away. If you want mentoring to work, it must be treated as a structured, trackable leadership activity.

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Embark With Us

MARCH 20, 2025

Aligning financial reporting systems, tracking and realizing efficiencies, and continuously monitoring financial performance are essential to support patient care and ensure the merged entity's success. Steps for Standardization: Conduct an audit of existing financial reporting and ERP systems in both organizations.

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The Importance of Integrity in Leadership In the ever-evolving landscape of corporate governance, CFOs in South Africa play a pivotal role in shaping the ethical framework of their organisations. Integrity, at its core, is non-negotiable in leadership—it builds trust, fosters accountability, and drives sustainable success.

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E78 Partners

JUNE 16, 2025

If those systems remain siloed post-close, leadership may lack accurate data for key decisions, and finance teams could be stuck reconciling figures manually. A structured communication and change management plan, anchored by leadership alignment and transparent messaging, can reduce attrition and protect institutional knowledge.

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Future CFO

JULY 8, 2024

Editor’s note: Audit is much more than a compliance requirement and is definitely not a declining industry, said Narissa Chen (pictured), Partner, Head of Audit & Assurance, Forvis Mazars in Singapore. She shared with FutureCFO what a career in audit offers and how female professionals can become audit leaders.

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Organizations that expend over $750,000 in federal funds (increasing to $1 million in 2025) are subject to a single audit. This audit goes beyond typical financial audits and examines programmatic compliance as well. Get the free guide!

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The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Some 41% of finance teams have issues Identifying and correcting errors, 31% have problems finding and gathering necessary data, 24% have challenging questions on sources of data, 23% face challenges tracking multiple Excel versions, 20% have a bugbear of broken formulas, 19% are far from confident presenting this data to non-finance leadership.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Adequate financial leadership has never been more critical to today’s market. Whether navigating a leadership gap, managing complex financial transactions, or steering through a period of growth or crisis, a transitional Chief Financial Officer provides the necessary insights and support to ensure financial stability.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Adequate financial leadership has never been more critical to today’s market. Whether navigating a leadership gap, managing complex financial transactions, or steering through a period of growth or crisis, a transitional Chief Financial Officer provides the necessary insights and support to ensure financial stability.

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CFO Talks

APRIL 15, 2025

Teams that are accountable tend to deliver faster closes, more accurate forecasts, and fewer audit findings. Reports are produced. Without accountability, financial reporting becomes a tick-box exercise. Automated workflows, audit trails, and shared dashboards all create transparency. Packs are circulated.

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CFO Talks

JUNE 4, 2025

Financial reports, investor calls, public updates, and even interviews all feed into the broader narrative about a business. On the other hand, when they are practical, calm, and confident in their explanations, they signal leadership, not just competence. The best CFOs do not just focus on clean audits.

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CFO Talks

MAY 14, 2025

When financial decisions are grounded in integrity, they tend to be more robust, less reactive, and ultimately more sustainable. Ethical leadership is no longer a moral footnote; it is central to long-term value creation. Similarly, financial systems should support transparency, not obscure it. It is a cultural mirror.

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CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

AI driven automation is expected to extend to more complex tasks such as, audits, risk management, and financial planning and analysis. As AI permeates finance, questions about its compliance with audits and financial governance will arise.

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CFO Talks

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Clean audits in the public sector are rare. Only 41 municipalities in South Africa achieved a clean audit for 2020-21. Khan has previously worked for the Auditor General and has achieved numerous clean audits with the DTI. . ” “Once these basic principles were in place, a clean audit was inevitable.”

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CFO Strategic Partners

APRIL 14, 2025

Do More With What You Have Leverage CFO Leadership Build A Strong Financial Foundation Update Your Technology Track The Right KPIs Position Your Business Effectively for Investment Companies that achieve their objectives and outperform their competitors – know how to seamlessly blend strategy and execution in the pursuit of their goals.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 7, 2025

Starting as an engineering graduate with a curiosity about business finance, Morgan transitioned into the world of accounting and finance, where he has built an impressive career spanning leadership roles at renowned organizations like KPMG, United Bank for Africa, and Africa Finance Corporation. Be responsible and accountable.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Companies are sharing leading practices and voluntarily working with regulators to help deter and detect financial reporting fraud,” said City Fornelli, executive director of the Center for Audit Quality, on behalf of the Anti-Fraud Collaboration. Institute of Internal Auditors President and CEO Richard F.

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The Charity CFO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Get in Touch with Tiffany Slater and HRTailormade: Website LinkedIn: Instagram : Facebook : YouTube : TikTok : Do You Struggle to Make Sense of Your Financial Statements? Get the free guide! The post Nonprofit HR Risks and Best Practices with Dr.

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CFO Talks

AUGUST 24, 2022

Welcome to this SAIBA CFO podcast, SAIBA is the South African Institute of Business Accountants, it has more than 12 000 members and specialises in a wide range of disciplines such as accountancy and tax, training and development, career enhancement, legislation and financial reporting.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 27, 2022

Finance leaders can and should take a leadership role cultivating their company’s ethical competencies and addressing its unique challenges. Quality Financial Reporting: Given their utmost criticality, financial closings have to be completed accurately and efficiently. Tackling the Issue of Ethics.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 23, 2022

These days, at least in Asia, sustainability responsibilities appear to be more closely associated with a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Lim opined that with the level of scrutiny over ‘non-financial’ and ‘financial’ reporting on the rise, corporates need buy-in and support from the Board to push the sustainability agenda.

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Future CFO

MAY 1, 2024

As the person responsible for preparing an organisation’s financial reports, which include balance sheets and income statements, the role of a finance controller is anything but ordinary. Succeeding amid challenges “Success as a controller relies on an entrepreneurial mindset, analytical rigour, and adept leadership,” says Leonardo.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Instead, the watchdog is suggesting that major audits of top companies be conducted by at least two firms, one of which must not be one of the Big Four. Earlier this year, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) called for a probe into whether a breakup for the four giants could promote competition.

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Michigan CFO

MAY 27, 2025

That question is at the heart of a recent feature in MoldMaking Technology , where Michigan CFO Associates and Consulting CFO Dennis Weist were recognized for the transformational impact of fractional financial leadership at TK Mold & Engineering. But this story isnt about recognition. Its about results.

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VCFO

MAY 30, 2022

He is particularly skilled in oil and gas accounting, financial reporting, structuring finance and accounting functions and processes, financial modeling of capital investments, divestitures, acquisitions, cash flows and working capital management, and debt and equity financing.

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CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Future-forward finance and accounting organizations were quick to embrace robotic process automation (RPA) years ago to manage mundane, repetitive back-office tasks like data entry and routine financial reporting. The post Preparing Your Finance Organization for the New Era of AI first appeared on CFO Leadership.

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