Finance Indaba: the biggest finance conference in Africa

Quick Consols is a financial reporting tool for South Africans, by South Africans.

BlackLine is a cloud solution provider, empowering accounting and finance leaders.

Draftworx is a financial statement preparation and engagement performance platform.

Want to get hired? Finance Indaba silver partner Cassel & Co's Georgina Barrick says it's time to specialise.

The comedian will make sure that the world of finance has no chance of taking itself too seriously.

W.consulting's Bruce Mackenzie: "IFRS 9 calculates what you EXPECT to lose, not what you HAD lost."

SurTech is the sole distributor of ACL and VATSURE software and services in South Africa.

Finance Indaba Silver Partner VeriCred Collections are specialists in all aspects of consumer debt recovery.

AGSA is the only institution that audits and reports on how the government spends taxpayers' money.

It is a specialist recruitment company operating in IT, finance, engineering and contracting solutions.

The IIA SA is the leading professional body representing the interests of internal auditors in SA.

The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business offers world-class academic programmes and more.

SAIPA equips professional accountants with the latest knowledge, techniques and accreditation.

The software solutions provider services various sectors, including education, manufacturing and more.

TreasuryOne provides solution design and implements best-in-class treasury platforms.

HansaWorld specialises in enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management.

Insightsoftware is revolutionising enterprise reporting and performance management.

Cassel&Co recruits finance professionals across a variety of focus areas for businesses.

The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission provides valuable business services.

ACS-Embrace is a specialist in ERP Software for a range of industries including financial and automotive.

CEO Ruschka Raidoo says companies should use analytics to deliver what their customers want.

AfricaRAS's Patricia Stock says companies must understand culture, diversity and local nuance in African countries.

FinTech disruption is allowing digital transacting between bank accounts, removing the dependence on credit cards.

Bad hires can be expensive. Nicoli Sauerman says that's why companies need tailored recruitment solutions.

BlackLine's Mike Hibbert: Businesses must transform their financial close process to become more efficient.

An accountant with an entertainment background had a vision to make accounting accessible for all.

Goalfix CEO Colin Human says financial modelling changed his life. Now he's spreading the word.

Edge Growth Stuart Townshend says senior leadership must remove obstacles to appointing small business suppliers.

Broll anticipates an uptick in companies focusing on delivering strategic value after the SA elections.

Absa's Virtual Pay generates a single-use account number for each transaction, explains Julie Hayes.

Draftworx's Earl Steyn shares the easiest way to be compliance and XBRL-ready in 2018.

WTS Business Services' Daren Mudaly says AI is a game changer in data management.

Ian Rheeder: Robots are here, but the future needs humans who empathise, love and lead.

Today's leaders face an increasingly young workforce. Resistance is futile: Learn to work with them.

Cobus Grove shares how the path less taken has been the right path for him.

Colin Human tells Finance Indaba audiences: the value of financial modelling lies in its flexibility.

A new app allows investors to buy farming assets, watch them grow, and make money.

A new online alternative lending platform promises to assist small businesses with securing funding.

Innovation doesn't happen unless you have the people on board to drive it - start there.

DocFox gives SMEs a novel support tool in ongoing anti-money laundering battle.

Management and finance must set the tone for governance to penetrate all through the business.

Customer is king in customer-centric design thinking, Dr Rael Futerman told the Finance Indaba.

Cloud is coming, but how do you ready yourself? Exploring cloud strategy with Vaughan Mason.

Urbanised economies are prime opportunities for fintech firms, and Africa is set to offer scores of these.

Marlon Parker urged finance professionals to use hope to unlock innovation in their organisations.

Real change will require assessing our often faulty beliefs - and a little bit of faith.

Effective public sector CFOs need innovation, commitment and a good understanding of their customer needs.

Carol Lupiya said finance professionals should avoid "elevator commentary" and provide insight that drives change.

Want to perform better? Richard Sutton says to look after the bacteria in your gut.

Cyber attacks can cripple effect businesses. Finance professionals must install the necessary system security.

Standard Bank impresses with its well-structured online banking platform for all business sizes.

W.consulting's Bruce Mackenzie warned that SA needs to urgently prepare for IFRS 15, 9, 16 and 7.

Cryptocurrency can only go mainstream and deliver on its full potential when regulators embrace it.

The square meter per person of office space has already reduced in many major SA corporates.

Businesses need to invest in targeting the next generation consumer for future growth, says i-Pay.

Mqondisi Gumede warns, if big business doesn't decentralise it won't survive the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

A Standard Bank solution custom-designed for entrepreneurs makes the accountant the hero for their client.

Two top executives share their views on the evolving function of finance leaders in 2018 and beyond.

Accounting Made Easy's Mark Samowitz: People aren't bad at accounting - they are merely taught badly.

Blockchain will deliver a globalised economy, making it as easy to send money as information.

Marnus Broodryk told the Finance Indaba that everything they believe about entrepreneurship is wrong.

Work hard at what you're good at, keeping your values skills intact, and then give back.

Lifehacker Martijn Aslander: To negotiate a future we can't imagine, we need some serious skills.

Wits Business School's Brian Armstrong says companies that have failed to transform do not grow.

'Non-FinTech' - from drones through to computer vision - can be applied to the banking sector.

Shift from doing digital to being digital, from digital projects to digital in your DNA.

Diarise around career, relationship and self, and don't change these blocks of time unless critical.

Standard Bank's Lebohang Monama: The Fourth Industrial Revolution will rewrite the rules of the game.

Dave Sohigian says the cloud is producing huge results in the US, Europe and Asia.

Even those who rate themselves 10/10 at Excel still have new things to learn.

Real-time interbank settlements, one-click outsourced trust: finance as you knew it is undergoing a revolution.

The biggest obstacles that stop women from starting their own businesses are fear and self-doubt.

Oracle's Naaliah Gora says that boards and CEOs require CFOs to be more analytical.

Finance Indaba Africa off to a roaring start with a thought-provoking presentation on land reform.

Finance Indaba Africa, kicking off today, promises to be bigger and better than ever before.

d-school to show finance professionals how design thinking can make their organisations future proof.

Excel4apps aims to use the Finance Indaba to uncover delegates' pain points regarding financial reporting.

MD Saul Symanowitz explains why the technology platform is so useful.

Oracle will explain how to use smart technologies to transform finance at Finance Indaba 2018.

Yugen Pillay: Big businesses can use tech to grow small businesses and support the economy.

Sanari Capital's Samantha Pokroy: Finance is starting to return to the people side of things.

Draftworx's Earl Steyn to enlighten audiences about accounting data, systems and automation at Finance Indaba.

CaseWare Africa's Jodi Joseph tells CFO SA about their offering, and the effects of digital transformation.

Broll's Ken Gerber to present two future-gazing sessions, helping you derive value from real estate.

Boost your staff's financial literacy - guaranteed - with the session: In Successful Business Everyone Speaks Accounting.

Krish Kumar and Dumisani Dlamini will exhibit the progressive thinking that made them award-winners.

Accounting institutes signal commitment to governance in SA with mind-expanding content at the Finance Indaba.

The exclusive human capital develops people, connects employers to top talent and mitigates workplace risk.

The professional services firm provides industry-focused assurance, advisory and tax services to clients in all markets.

The institution specialises in broadening access to high-quality professional accountancy education for aspiring CMAs.

The company has a broad coverage of Instruments across sub-categories of financial markets.

Learn to tackle transitions with Finance Indaba Platinum Sponsor Workday on 3 and 4 October.

i-Pay is an online payment gateway for buyers and merchants, which works on phones and desktops.

Vena is the fastest-growing cloud CPM company and the only one to embrace Excel.

Finance Indaba diamond sponsor Standard Bank to deliver valuable sessions on 3 and 4 October.

Canvas Intelligence's Pieter van Zyl to share insights on business administration optimisation with C-suite execs.

Banks, innovators, experts, techies, consultants and accountants among the experts who will show you where your future revenue will come from.

The company provides enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources to deliver business insights.

The company provides custom software and services to clients mainly in the finance sector.

ACCA country head Patience Semenya talks membership, future-proof skills, and why ACCA will be at Finance Indaba 2018

Krish Kumar, Till Streichart and Ramasela Ganda to share knowledge and experience at Finance Indaba.

The financial subject matter experts deliver advisory services, purchasable online products and face-to-face training.

SAIPA is the South African Institute of Professional Accountants, and has over 10 000 members.

The private equity company aims to build businesses that are sustainable, scalable and saleable.

TreasuryONE offers a broad range of best-practise treasury services to organisations of all sizes.

The company is a leading independent investment manager and registered financial services provider.

Iconoclast is set to be Africa's premier boutique knowledge bureau.

MoneyWorks leverages the financial expertise and successful performance key partners to assist medium-size businesses.

Effective time management is not about how to get more things done; it's about how to get the RIGHT things done.

Datacentrix' Commercial Managing Director, Johann Coetzee, will put the company's business model to the test by guaranteeing telecoms savings.

The ACL platform is used by almost every Fortune 500 company.

The high quality of the speakers at the Finance Indaba Africa 2018 will make it difficult for finance professionals to choose which session to attend.

HotForex is an award winning forex and commodities broker, providing trading services and facilities to both retail and institutional clients.

Finlytics' solution is a groundbreaking cloud-based best practice finance architecture.

The d-school enables innovation and new outcomes that can help meet the needs of users.

South Africa's best training providers for finance professionals will share the stage during Finance Indaba Africa to demonstrate what training for tomorrow really means.

CFO South Africa talks to Akshar Rampath about the EOH information services vertical, and XDS's client offerings

"We've played an incredible part in contributing to the growth story of SA Inc.," says Naeem Seedat, VP of Diversified Markets at TransUnion.

The company provides granular business solutions to enable successful business management.

"We depend on Finance Indaba Africa as a good platform to connect these ambitious young lads to Africa's world of finance."