Press releases

Press release: South Africans believe bots will succeed where humans have failed

98 percent of people believe society has not made enough progress on sustainability and social efforts.

Press release: New trends in digital reporting

New trends show that digital reporting will be intelligent, interactive, and real-time.

Press Release: Caseware Africa continues to expand with Caseware IDEA®

Caseware IDEA® empowers finance professionals to turn their data into insights.

Press release: How do we get more entrepreneurs in the African ecosystem?

The critical challenges in the African ecosystem and how to address it in order to move forward.

Press release: Digitisation and frictionless commerce

Absa's Bohani Hlungwane unpacks the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement and what it means for SA.

Press release: Curious tax court judgement

Unicus Tax explores a curious case where a taxpayer applied to amend an objection.

Press release: SAIPA back with live Budget Breakfast for 2022 budget review

SAIPA professionals unpack the Minister of Finance's annual national budget speech.

Press release: Maximising this year's Mining Indaba

With many new trends to discuss and key developments coming under the microscope, this is a quick guide to making the most of this year’s event.

Press release: Taking the pain out of RFPs

How to make the RFP process in finding a new travel management company a positive one.

Press release: The importance of an objection

Taxpayers should appreciate the importance of getting an objection right the first time.

Press release: Powerful Data Analytics with CaseWare IDEA®

CaseWare IDEA® Data Analysis is a comprehensive commanding data analytics tool that guarantees  data integrity and accelerates the performance of analytics that yield faster and more effective external audits.

Press release: Mastering the art of financial prediction

Infor’s Coleman AI Platform enables organisations to obtain a higher level of valid and reliable financial prediction.

Press release: Are CFOs missing an opportunity to streamline reporting?

CaseWare Africa's Nienke Krüger reveals how integrating your results can lead to efficiency gains.

Press release: Workday sees continued momentum in retail

Nearly 50 percent of the 2021 NRF top 100 retailers are using Workday to maximise their retail operations.

Press release: Finance chiefs reveal top priorities for future-proofing teams

Technology strategy emerges as critical to CFOs' people strategy for the future in Workday's Global CFO Survey.

Press release: Get the basics right – a failed default judgement application in the tax court

How to successfully ask the tax court for final relief in consequence of SARS' failure to comply.

Press release: Blockchain.com to leverage account verification from Envestnet | Yodlee

The deal will help improve Blockchain.com’s onboarding process and increase its user acquisition.

Press release: Envestnet | Yodlee unveils Developer Portal to enhance finance ecosystem

The new Developer Portal allows for the fast creation of digital financial wellness experiences.

Press release: Envestnet | Yodlee collaborates with Intuit QuickBooks

The new collaboration is aimed at providing financial data connections to millions of small businesses.

Press release: SARS must also comply with the rules

Unicus Tax provides an overview of the obligations, period and remedies available to taxpayers to hold SARS to account.

Press release: 70 percent of the financial services companies in Fortune 500 choose Workday

Workday sees continued momentum in financial services supporting global institutions in transforming business.

Press release: Three processes ready for automation in finance (Part three)

In part three of the Finance Process Automation Series, iOCO examines the automation of the record-to-report process.

Press release: Three processes ready for automation in finance (Part two)

In part two of the Finance Process Automation Series, iOCO examines the automation of the order-to-cash process.

Press release: Tax disputes – more than one way to skin a cat

Three remedies taxpayers can use to challenge an assessment or decision by SARS.

Press release: Three processes ready for automation in finance (Part one)

In part one of the Finance Process Automation Series, iOCO examines the automation of the procure-to-pay process.

Press release: Create, protect and sustain value

ACCA uncovers the role of accountants as trusted professionals at the heart of sustainable organisations.

Press release: Tax disputes – onus of proof

Can SARS simply raise an assessment out of thin air and leave the taxpayer to prove them wrong?

Press release: OneStream Software previews new machine learning capabilities at Splash 2021

Makes intelligent forecasting accessible to finance and operations teams while supercharging productivity for data science groups.

Press release: Six data quality traits that put the "intelligent" into "business intelligence"

You need to vet your enterprise performance data against these six data-quality traits.

Press release: How the world's most valuable companies implement data management processes

Data management implementation comes with pitfalls you just won’t spot until it’s too late.

Press release: Your data-to-decisions journey is part of ours – next stop, SYSPRO UK

As of June 2021 EnterpriseWorx is the newest SYSPRO implementation partner to be appointed in the UK.

Press release: Time to Fly – The lowdown on Covid-19 health passports

A digital vaccination certificate is now "under development", according to Department of Health.

Press release: What to expect from your travels into top business destinations in AME?

Even though the pandemic threw a spanner in the works, South Africans continue to turn their eyes to the rest of the continent for business opportunities.

Press release: Fall in public support for international tax collaboration despite corporation tax agreement

Tax changes should be targeted to help Covid recovery and boost fight against climate crisis.

Is the future mining workforce remote?

Managing Covid-19 travel complexities in the mining industry.

Press release: Real-time payments, real-time fraud

Kyriba’s Bob Stark explains how technology can alleviate the burden of real-time payments.

Press release: Readying treasury for hybrid work

Kyriba’s Andrew Deichler highlights what CFOs should consider when preparing their treasury for hybrid work.

Press release: CFOs should proactively counter fraud and automate their payments controls

Kyriba’s Brian Blihovde explains that taking away manual tasks can help CFOs counter fraud and risk.

Press release: FX predictions, opportunities and pitfalls in an expanding global market

Kyriba VP of risk management Andy Gage unpacks the impact of the resilient USD and increased business activity.

Press release: The business benefits of automating segregation of duties monitoring

How automating segregation of duties monitoring will help you strengthen organisation-wide fraud prevention.

Press release: Seven questions to ask before adopting a business intelligence tool

Business intelligence is about accurate, valuable data to make powerful decisions with.

Press release: Ethics for sustainable AI adoption – connecting AI and ESG

As AI becomes more mainstream, ESG considerations are a key part of ensuring responsible adoption.

Press release: The relevance of SARS’ pre-assessment obligations

Whether SARS complies with pre-assessment obligations is very relevant to a tax dispute.

Press release: How to get the most from your enterprise financial data

Your financial data will give up deeper decision-making secrets if you interrogate it deeper.

Press release: How exciting is your financial data? (It depends who you ask)

Three steps to making your business data more exciting and useful.

Press release: Five ways tech is changing business travel

Digital advancements are answering the challenges laid down by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Press release: OneStream Software continues strong sales and customer growth in second quarter

CPM software provider bookings were up 188 percent in the second quarter, capping a record first half.

Press release: The Remote tax practice – make it happen with CaseWare CloudTax

CloudTax helps tax practitioners solve many of today’s challenges and lays the foundation for the tax practice of the future.

Press release: 5 key areas to test when building an effective audit plan

Auditors are challenged to audit more areas, more frequently, and uncover fraud for their clients.

Press release: Improving efficiency through automation

CaseWare Africa's Michael Mncube elaborates on corporate tax challenges and how automation can improve efficiency.

Press release: South Africa’s Old Mutual accelerates growth with Oracle Cloud

Multinational insurer reduces on-premises footprint; migrates critical business functions to Oracle Cloud to boost efficiency and enhance services.

Press release: Tax disputes – being forced into appeal?

Do taxpayers really have any other choice but to appeal after an unsuccessful objection?

Press release: InfoDocs celebrates reaching 10k companies

InfoDocs has reached 10,000 companies on its company secretarial software platform.

Press release: Join the ACCA Africa Virtual Careers Fair

Career seekers across Africa will have access to ACCA’s Africa Virtual Careers Fair on 12 August.

Press release: The digitalisation of business travel

Post-Covid-19 travel is highly connected – and personal.

Press release: Will Covid-19 vaccines reignite business travel?

Five things to keep in mind when discussing vaccines and health passports.

Press release: South African employers’ role in the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out

Employers have an important role to play in getting the workforce vaccinated and back onto the road.

Press release: How is a changing airspace impacting on corporate travel?

Corporate Traveller GM Oz Desai says corporate business travel in South Africa is steadily recovering.

Press release: OneStream Software strikes partnership with Jamie Murray and Sophia Popov

Jamie and Sophia highlight how a focused approach drives excellence and performance across tennis, golf and business.

Press release: Blackline takes top spot for enterprise financial close software in G2 ranking

Blackline is the only financial close software provider in the top 15 of the Best Finance Products of 2021 list.

Press release: You’re in Gauteng and need to travel for business. Now what?

Travel management companies can help travellers with the right paperwork to travel during Covid-19 Alert Level 4.

Press release: How to navigate the challenges of ‘essential’ travel

Multinationals need to work with travel management companies to navigate the changing landscape of travel during Covid-19.

Press release: The one-day-close: Automating finance to drive the cost agenda

iOCO sales director Paul Bouchier says organisations can benefit greatly from consistent one-day-closes.

Press release: Drakenstein Municipality works with CaseWare Africa and achieves a clean audit

Using the new Treasury guidelines, Drakenstein Municipality has achieved a clean audit despite Covid-19 lockdowns.

Press release: Tax disputes: How to deal with invalid objections

Invalid objections are kept in check by at least two mechanisms contained in the rules that govern objection and appeal.

Press release: Thinking of digitising your company records? Just do it!

Company secretarial software InfoDocs digitises share registers and certificates.

Press release: Absa secures two more digital banking awards

Absa has been recognised for its digital banking offering at the Global Finance Digital Innovator Awards.

Press release: Why it's time to retire Excel for retail financial reporting

Discover how you can automate financial reporting with near real-time data with FinWorx.

Press release: BlackLine sweeps TrustRadius Awards in all financial close categories

BlackLine has taken first place in all the financial close categories at TrustRadius Awards.

Press release: OneStream Software earns 58 top rankings and 34 leading positions in four peer groups

OneStream received top marks and 100 percent recommendation Score in the BARC Planning Survey 21.

Press release: CaseWare Africa launches Trust Tax

CaseWare Africa has launched a holistic, cloud based tax return solution designed especially for trusts.

Press release: Global economic activity could return to pre-Covid level before end of this year

Largest increase in economic confidence in history of global economic survey in Q1 2021.

Workday announces fiscal 2022 first quarter financial results

Workday has reported a first quarter bookings outperformance, combined with ongoing strength in its pipeline.

Press release: Refining ‘the new oil’ of business data into something valuable

Without the detective work and data refinement skills to process data, its utility remains largely wasted.

Press release: Tax disputes – pay now, argue later

Two of the most immediate issues for taxpayers is their tax clearance status and the pay now, argue later rule.

Press release: The CIPC pioneered digital financial reporting in South Africa

CIPC was the first regulator in South Africa to initiate a digital financial reporting programme through XBRL.

Press release: The irony of SARS’ media release of 11 March 2021

The SARS media release stated that all forms of rental income must be declared to SARS.

Press release: Transfer duty exemption and corporate transactions

Provisions allow certain transactions to take place without immediate adverse income tax.

Press release: InfoDocs partners with award-winning startup Intergreatme

By partnering with Intergreatme, InfoDocs can now save its clients even more time by verifying their IDs online.

Press release: How CFOs can help CEOs better manage financial risk

CFOs need to renovate their enterprise performance management methods to better-assist CEOs.

Press release: Something is seriously amiss with the tax objection process

70 percent of tax appeals are conceded to by SARS in full, which should be a big concern in the dispute process.

Press release: SARS’ verifications, IT14SD, additional assessments and understatement penalties

A guide through the successful submission of your IT14SD and how to resolve additional assessments.

Press release: SARS audit, how far back can they go?

A case study where SARS extended the scope of its audit 38 years back, and if they can go back that far.

Press release: Prescription, assessments, SARS’ subjective satisfaction and disputes

The circumstances under which SARS may raise an assessment post prescription.

Press release: Abusing tax court processes work?

Why a taxpayer that was abusing process was successful when appealing to the full bench of the High Court.

Press release: Pick n Pay chooses Workday as it seeks to transform employee experience

Workday has been chosen to support Pick n Pay as it brings its employee experience into the digital age.

Press release: A CFO's guide to accelerating digital initiatives

Four areas that are driving value, and should be on every finance leader’s radar in 2021 and beyond.

Press release: Five steps to becoming a decision-ready organisation

Finance must shift its focus from delivery of core financial processes to providing guidance and strategic partnership.

Press release: BlackLine recognised for driving digital transformation for customers

BlackLine receives SAP EMEA North Partner Excellence Award 2021 for Solution Extensions – Growth.

Press release: Innovation and upgrades don’t have to be disruptive

Operational disruption is the barrier to innovation – so Workday minimizes it.

Press release: Liquidity benefits from dynamic discounting in supply chain financing

Kyriba’s Abhijit Prasad explains how organisations can use data analysis to get ahead.

Press release: Red Bull Racing Honda and Oracle partner to elevate data analytics in Formula 1

Leading Formula 1 team selects Oracle to improve car performance, machine learning, and analytics.

Press release: Kyriba application receives ISO 27001 certification

The ISO 27001 certification provides many benefits to minimize risk and maintain international regulatory standards.

Press release: InfoDocs officially powered by Legalease

InfoDocs has secured a partnership with creative legal agency Legalease.

Press release: Workday accelerates customer time-to-value with new Workday Extend capabilities

New app development features help businesses drive more value from their existing Workday investment.

Press release: 70 percent of business leaders lack confidence in financial forecast data

Research from BlackLine shows that most executives are concerned about their forecasting data.

Press release: Workday completes acquisition of Peakon

The acquisition of Peakon, organisations will have access to a continuous listening platform.

Press release: CaseWare Africa launches CaseWare IDEA

CaseWare IDEA Data Analysis ensures more effective data integrity, external audits and data analytics.

Press release: Tech startup InfoDocs automates statutory compliance

Josh Alexandre saw an opportunity to ease the burden of statutory compliance using automation.

Press release: Four areas companies should look to restart, reinvent and renew

Businesses need to become more agile and transparent, increase employee satisfaction and make duty of care a strategic priority.

Four predictions for digital finance in 2025

Sage's Gerhard Hartman predicts what the finance function will look like in 2025.

Global study: People trust robots more than themselves with money

Research shows growing confidence among consumers and business leaders that robots handle finance tasks better than people.

Quick Consols joins the Xero App Marketplace

Quick Consols has been certified by Xero as an app partner and is available on the Xero App Marketplace.

Kutana Group Case Study (Press release)

Nicole Vermeulen says Kutana's financial reporting has improved dramatically since using Quick Consols.

CFO 3.0 as a leader in value creation (Press release)

The CFO 3.0 sees data as an organizational asset and understands its value.

MFS Africa appoints TreasuryONE as their treasury technology service provider

MFS Africa has selected TreasuryONE's Technology Service Kyriba for its treasury technology services.

Data science helps specialty retailer better plan and serve customers (Press release)

South Africa’s HomeChoice remodels its planning processes with Oracle Retail Cloud to drive efficiency and sales improvements.

Tony Blair Institute and Oracle launch Africa vaccine management in the cloud (Press release)

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Oracle partner with African governments to manage large-scale vaccination programs in the cloud.

Five reasons why AI is the future of finance (Press release)

AI could transform the finance function in the next decade.

How 2020’s events are transforming the business travel sector

Global business travel is being transformed as the disruptive effects of the global pandemic.

Finance transformation remains a priority in the midst of Covid-19

Communication, collaboration, technology and infrastructure cited as greatest challenges during Covid-19.

BlackLine unveils quick-deployment remote audit package

The new package will help customers prepare for audits with confidence in uncertain times.

BlackLine acquires Rimilia

Acquisition expands BlackLine’s position as an indispensable automation platform.

Coupa named a leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant

Coupa named a leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for procure-to-pay suites for the fifth consecutive time.

Press release: Consolidate data with Conductor4SQL

Large beverage manufacturer consolidates and centralize data with Conductor4SQL.

6 steps to navigate a crisis using scenario planning

Oracle's Marc Seewald shares six steps CFOs can take to navigate Covid-19 using scenario planning.

Sage brings award-winning Sage Intacct to South Africa

Sage supports visionary CFOs with a new cloud financial management platform.

Quick Consols and IDU form a strategic alliance

Quick Consols delivers “missing piece of puzzle” to IDU clients.

Oracle strengthens leading cloud ERP

Oracle brings big bank anti-money laundering protection to smaller institutions

New cloud application suite helps mid-sized banks stay safe, compliant, and ready for growth.