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| Date Published | Category | Article Link | Brief Outline |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2024 | Integrity failure | Professional integrity failure | What is professional integrity failure? For instance, at which stage can the lead auditor of a global audit firm discuss his employment with the listed company being audited? |
| 28 March 2024 | Corporate Governance | The ABC of the Stalingrad defence | The Stalingrad defence is not taught in law schools and it has a certain charm. |
| 21 March 2024 | Board and directors | Calling the Cavalry | Part 2 of 2 Calling the cavalry is what boards must then do when, without warning, into the crowded space of modern-day board activities, parachutes an existential crisis. |
| 13 March 2024 | Boards and directors | Calling the Cavalry | Part 1 of 2. Calling the cavalry is what boards must then do when, without warning, into the crowded space of modern-day board activities, parachutes an existential crisis. |
| 13 February 2024 | CorporateGovernance | Consumer Protection Act is working | The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) found that the well-known 'buyer beware' principle in many cases will not hold water anymore. |
| 12 February 2024 | Fraud and Corruption | Onslaught of financial fraud | The onslauht of financial fraud is inevitable. If the 2008 collapse is any guide, the current economic downturn will expose a wave of corporate and individual shenanigans like never before. |
| 30 January 2024 | Tax havens | Tax havens refuse to change | If tax havens refuse to change, then what can stop them? Western governments? Kings? They all arrear appear to be on a collision course with heightened demand for transformational change. |
| 28 January 2024 | Fraud and corruption | Worrying Red Flags Shell Companies | Moody’s Analytics found 21 million worrying red flags shell companies that could be used to enable financial crimes. |
| 26 January 2024 | Boards and directors | Rogue directors cough up | It's about time rogue directors cough up. Miscreant directors may well fear recent developments regarding the time-barring of claims based on breach of duty. |
| 26 January 2024 | Boards and Directors Shareholder matters | Deregistration at the CIPC | Deregistration at the CIPC of a company or CC is risky business. |
| 24 January 2024 | Boards and Directors | Guarantee or a suretyship? | Did you sign a guarantee or a suretyship? |
| 16 January 2024 | Boards and Directors Shareholdder matters | AGMs for private companies | Is it necessary to hold annual general meetings for private companies (AGMs)? What are the provisions of the Companies Act (Act) and Regulations in this regard? |
| 14 January 2024 | Board and Directors Company Law | Audit of a private company | Must an audit of a private company be performed? |
| 13 January 2024 | Boards and Directors Company Law | A shareholder meeting | Section 61(2) of the Companies Act 71 of 2008, as amended (the “Act”) provides that a shareholder meeting of a company must be held at any time that the board is required to do so |
| 12 January 2024 | Company Law | Companies Amendment Bill 2023 | Revised drafts of the Bills have now been sent to the National Counsel of Provinces as reported by Bowmans Law and by Webber Wentzel in early December 2023. |
| 11 January 2024 | Boards and Directors Workplace Discipline | Decriminalising workplace discipline | One of the major obstacles to decriminalising workplace discipline according to Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr is that existing disciplinary codes are based on a criminal justice model that has been entrenched into contracts of employment |
| 11 January 2024 | CIPC | Director amendments at CIPC | The latest requirements for director amendments at CIPC is complicated and already frustrating many companies in South Africa. |
| 10 January 2024 | Board and Directors | Employer-funded share incentive schemes | Employer-funded share incentive schemes came to the fore in 2022. Several articles appeared on the Spur matter and looking at it now brings two salient themes to the fore: |
| 9 January 2024 | B-BBEE | BEE fronting or creating wealth? | Are B-BBEE schemes BEE fronting or creating wealth? Depending on who you talk to, on the one hand widespread BEE fronting occurs, while on the other hand BEE is creating wealth amongst the wider public. |
| 8 January 2024 | B-BBEE | Guidelines defining B-BBEE fronting practices | No clear guidelines defining B-BBEE fronting practices have been available since the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003 as amended (“B-BBEE Act”) became law. Despite this, the criminalisation of fronting practices adds to the seriousness of this issue for both existing and future B-BBEE initiatives. |
| 8 January 2024 | Internal Audit | A Vigilant Internal Audit Program | We all know colleagues who love to complain but do nothing about the problems they complain about. Eventually, a complainer loses value in an organization and they end up having little influence. |
