Conversations in Business with RSM RSM South Africa

Businesses can no longer afford to treat ESG as a tick box exercise. It has become a business imperative.

Suzan Dolamo, RSM South Africa's Sustainability Assurance Leader, chats to Trust Chikwiri, Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance, about the impact of ESG on business strategies, with a focus on risks.

ESG practices are becoming an important consideration for businesses across the globe.

RSM's Thilen Pillay chats to Belinda Careirra, Co-CEO of from Sustainable DNA, around the basics of ESG and how this currently impacts businesses from a South African perspective.

As digital assets continue to develop, we are seeing more and more corporates utilising digital assets in their organisations. However, as it stands, the International Financial Reporting Standards are still unclear around their accounting treatment.

RSM's Head of Information Systems, Thilen Pillay, chats to our Head of IFRS, Michael Steenkamp, around how we should be accounting for digital assets in the financial statements.

The ease of accessibility, together with the simplicity in which digital assets can be traded globally, has presented a unique challenge to tax authorities throughout the world regarding recovery of taxes from these transactions.

RSM Directors, Thilen Pillay and Ozeyr Ahmed, discuss the tax implications as they currently stand for digital assets in the South Africa landscape.

The disclosure of directors' remuneration is now a requirement of the Companies Act. The aim is to ensure that companies comply with the principles of transparency, accountability and integrity and maintain high standards of corporate governance.

RSM Legal Director, Phillip Kruger, chats to Audit Director, Henk Heymans, about the key considerations of the legislation, as well as the challenges they are seeing with their clients.

For businesses to thrive, the ability to acquire, merge and re-organise a business is critical and inevitably, these transactions trigger tax implications for one or both entities concerned.

In South Africa there are specific tax rules dealing with mergers & acquisitions and corporate restructuring. All of these are aimed to defer the tax implications that would otherwise have arisen.

RSM South Africa’s Head of Tax, Dieter Schulze, and Corporate Tax Expert, John Jones, give an overview of the special tax rules designed to assist with corporate restructures and mergers & acquisitions in South Africa.