PRACTITIONER SUCCESSES
Success Story from Ram Naidoo and Associates (Ram Naidoo, SAIPA Chairperson- Johannesburg Regional Association)
How Your Practice can benefit from taking on a learner from Guarantee Trust South Africa has grown to be beautiful country post apartheid after 1994. Since then skills shortages and brain drain has been the order of the day. Our skilled professionals have left our shore of beautiful South Africa to ‘greener’ overseas pastures. Today we have a shortage of 27 000 accountants in South Africa as a result of the huge growth in this country since 1994. Thankfully the government has introduced SETAS and Fasset is doing an excellent job with its service providers in providing qualified, Previously Disadvantaged Individuals (PDI) graduates into the market place. Guarantee trust is one such organization which promotes a supply of HDI graduates into the industry. Our organization, Ram Naidoo and Associates CC has been associated with Guarantee Trust and employing their graduates since 2003. Our practice has taken on about 2 to 4 graduates annually. As a practice we have enhanced the learners, our practice and have educated our clients of the presence of PDI graduates in our office. Our clients have an excellent working relationship with our clerks. Our clerks host meetings with our clients. The junior manager in the office |
manages the weekly meetings to ensure smooth work flow. Clerks also present weekly lectures with the work they are very familiar with. All clerks who come to our office are computer literate and can converse very well in English. Should your practice become a training centre, you could employ PDI graduates. Your practice receives a strategic cash grant (SC6) in terms of section 12H, from Fasset. You should further have an income tax deduction in terms of section 18.1/18.2 (unemployed or previously employed) depending on the number of staff you employ. This allows as a cash growth into your practice. Further it makes economic sense to employ PDI graduates as it grows your practice, increases opportunity in your business and allows the partners to concentrate in growing the practice and to enhance the standards in the accounting industry. I encourage all professional accountants to grow South Africa’s PDI accountants and become an approved training centre. Change the perception of the future accountants. “Employ Guarantee Trust graduates so that your practice can be an efficient vibrant organization for the future.” |
Practitioner Questions and Answers:
Gerard Paris from Alpha Millard (Cape Town)
Question: What do you like most about Guarantee Trust training?
Answer: “I like the fact that most trainees are knowledgeable and familiar with Microsoft and have an understanding of basic accounting”.
Terry Wilcox from Accvantage Solutions CC (JHB)
Question: From your view point what do you like most about Guarantee Trust operation and services?
Answer: “The training for candidates is unusual but important. Basic training is very good.”
Kobus Botha from IC Financial Consulting (JHB)
Question: How do you feel about the role that Guarantee Trust is playing?
Answer: “I am very happy Guarantee Trust can expand on what they do. I like the feedback I receive. They always call me to check what I need. I like it!”
Esda Shiptan from Shiptan Accountants
Question: How do you feel about the role that Guarantee Trust is playing?
Answer: “It is very important. Before Guarantee Trust started we didn’t know. The student I took is very eager to learn. She has a pleasant personality and is getting on very well. I’ll use Guarantee Trust again.”
Corne H. Joubert from Ledbury Accounting Services Pty Ltd
Question: From your viewpoint what do you like most about Guarantee Trust’s operation and services?
Answer: “The Pretoria branch manager of GT, Lannea Botha, really pulled it off and gave me the proper specification of candidates. The first thing is that the trainees are not clock watches. One of them even came in to work on a public holiday. Excellent service!”
Jo-Anne More from BDO Spencer Steward (PTA)
Question: How do you feel about the role that Guarantee Trust is playing?
Answer: “The role Guarantee Trust is playing is excellent, a very necessary function. The trainees we have from GT compared very well to others we have trained in terms of technical skill.”
Hebert Staples from HB Consulting (JHB)
Question: How do you feel about the role that Guarantee Trust is playing?
Answer: “Guarantee Trust’s training is good. The learners we have taken came here with good skills. Some have never been in an office environment before, but they do have the etiquette of how to do it.”
Frans Els from Frans Els and Associates
Question: How do you feel about the role that Guarantee Trust is playing?
Answer: “I feel very good about Guarantee Trust’s role. Without Guarantee Trust I wouldn’t have employed clerks.”
Henk Visser from Robin Dixie
Question: What do you like most about Guarantee Trust’s Training
Answer: “I like Guarantee Trust’s training. It’s practical application, not just theory.”
