Every budding CA has to, at one time or another, face the prospect of taking the bold step of moving out of the auditing profession. There’s a big wide world out there and the transition can look look quite daunting. But it need not be so. If you really consider the number of skills that you have developed in […]
I was asked an interesting question recently: is there a difference between a CFO (Chief Financial Officer) and FD (Financial Director)? Well, for a minute I was stymied. I had to give it some thought. CFO is definitely a relatively new term – financial director has always been the classic description of the most senior financial executive. But there now […]
As you probably know by now, I am a great proponent of the CA(SA) brand. One of the most impactful sessions in my coaching program is the one on personal branding. That is personal branding in relation to being a CA(SA). (CA(Z) and CA(NAM) fit it the same glorious category). Usually when I ask clients what their brand […]
Considering the stuff that really creates success, it is actually a lot more simple than you might think. The overriding ingredients are sourced from places other than pure brains and intelligence. In fact, they emerge from two basic character traits: perseverance and determination. Now don’t let me confuse you. Simplicity does not mean ‘easy’. Easy and simple are very different ideas. […]
Being in the career advisory space I often encounter clients who are stuck – they just don’t quite know which way to go. Using a few searching and hard-hitting questions it becomes apparent that usually they are avoiding what needs to be done. What do you think you are being called out to do right now? In other words, in the […]
Don’t you often find that you are asking yourself the question “I’m a qualified CA, but am I making it? Am I where a CA with my years of experience, should be?” It does not seem to matter how many years you have been qualified, there is always this nagging uncertainty that you are not as successful as […]
Accuracy? Financial accuracy? Balancing to the last cent? Is this not fundamental to the idea of accounting? It’s about balancing the books and emanates from a brilliant system of double-entry bookkeeping that was devised thousands of years ago and has survived intact to this very day! Incredible! In the theory of accountancy, accuracy is non-negotiable. But for accountants […]
Read this and contemplate. That recruitment agent that never got back to you, contacts you out of the blue with a great job offer. It sounds great – medium-sized business with an impressive turnover, a not-too-shabby bottom line and a bunch of cash in the bank. And the annual package is nicely within the market range, even […]
Willingness is a wonderful idea. It is a concept of inner freedom. It’s about letting go of all preconceived ideas and allowing your true essence to flow through. It’s surrender and acceptance and trust all rapped up together. Contrast this with worry, concern, doubt, resistance and fear, you can feel the freedom of it all. What happens, though, […]
“If you want to jump off the porch and run with the big dogs, you better learn to move in the tall grass!” This is a fun expression that takes a poke at the rigours of climbing the corporate ladder. It pre-supposes that, if you want to step up ‘there’, you better know how to […]