Meeting tough statutory requirements is an essential first step. All our audit teams work to the same high technical and professional standards.

But an annual audit can be more than a statutory obligation. It offers fresh insight into your business – an insight which could uncover potential management opportunities.

Which is why we make careful recommendations after every audit: perhaps suggesting more efficient systems, identifying weaknesses and strengths, or suggesting new ways to make savings.

Whatever the issue, we will discuss the various implications with you and recommend the best way forward.

Sometimes you need another perspective. We can provide that perspective, gained through extensive experience of the needs of growing businesses.

We also tackle a whole range of business tasks, freeing you to concentrate on what you do best. For instance, we help clients with:
• Maintaining their accounting records.
• Reviewing their management reporting systems.
• Cash flow and profit projections.
• Budgeting.
• Payroll administration.
• VAT and PAYE registration, deregistration and submission of returns.
• Company secretarial services.

Whatever the issue, we will discuss the various implications with you and recommend the best way forward.

Under the Companies Acts, a number of general duties are enforced upon the Directors and Secretary of a company. Compliance with the Acts and the numerous resulting duties can be a huge administrative burden on any Director or Secretary. Duties range from the maintenance of the Register of Members and Register of Directors and Secretaries, to the filing of various returns to the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission.
Your failure to carry out these duties correctly and within the strict time limits can result in severe penalties for you as a Director.

Outsourcing your company secretarial administration offers a solution to this burden and brings many benefits. It also allows you to focus your efforts on the important part of your role, developing your business, safe in the knowledge that all statutory obligations are being met.

We offer various packages and will tailor our service to cater for the needs of your individual company or groups of companies.

If you are taking a strategic business decision, whether as a sole trader or managing a listed company, you will need corporate finance advice at some stage.
The services we offer
We can advise and assist you in all of the following:
• Strategic business advice
• Selling your business
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Business valuations and shareholder value

Adding value to your business

Establishing and maintaining an employee benefits programme is one way to attract and retain good staff, but many businesses worry about the cost of providing one for their employees. We can suggest the most cost effective employee benefits programme to assist you in building and keeping a winning team.

Our taxation consultants help clients comply with increasingly stringent tax rules, negotiating with SARS on their behalf and alerting them on important new legislation.

But for us compliance is just the beginning. We undertake the sort of innovative tax planning that allows our clients to make significant tax savings, often at key stages in the development of their business when forward thinking is critical.

We can assist you with the following services:

International tax
The growth in the global economy has led more and more businesses to expand through overseas opportunities and trade. One of the key costs incurred through cross border activities is tax, and an efficient structure can help set you on the road to success.

Completing payrolls and maintaining your company’s books can be an administrative nightmare.

As well as being complex and time consuming they can take you away from what you do best – developing your business.

You may have somebody to do these things for you. But whether you have an accounts department or a part-time bookkeeper these people still need to be managed, trained, supported with expensive and complex software packages and, of course, paid.

You will also need to keep up to date with the constant changes to the legislation surrounding payroll. Failure to do so could lead to hefty fines for innocent errors.

We can help you and your business to prosper by taking over these routine accounting functions for you.

In the event of a legal dispute, expert accounting assistance is often needed to achieve the best possible result for the client.

We act as expert witnesses in fraud and other criminal cases, providing impartial and straightforward advice to all parties.

In all types of civil litigation disputes, such as loss of profits and loss of earnings claims, we provide the clear approach needed to help courts deal with complex accountancy issues.

Why would you need a review?
All business environments change and this can create as many opportunities as it does threats. With ever more rapid change, lenders, investors and venture capitalists often require an Independent Business Review to be carried out by accountants before finalising a lending or investment decision.

How could a review help?
Whether management is seeking additional funding, or lenders or investors require reassurance as to the viability and credit-worthiness of the business, an Independent Business Review will provide a sound base from which management, lenders and investors can move forward.

UHY Hellmann (SA) understands this and we are committed to producing forward-looking Independent Business Reviews based on the commercial realities facing the business.

We recognise what is important to management, lenders and investors and our priority is to develop creative commercial solutions that will benefit all classes of stakeholder.

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