LET’S GET THE CIPC COMPLIANCE FORM STRAIGHT
I am not one for writing blogs or getting entangled in posts making use of social media. I’ve written blogs where I have been incensed about what is going on around me which mostly relates to service delivery! This would be a post about the situation that has arisen in company law and the CIPC compliance form which is an attempt to improve company law compliance which we all know is at an all-time low! Our competitors are going around saying that the new CIPC compliance form has been put on hold or is going to be delayed. This is used because they heard it verbally from someone at the CIPC and is used as an excuse because they can’t deliver what we have. This is rumour and can’t be relied upon! In our system Sky Sec, we produce the document required to be signed by the client with the information to be posted on the CIPC website. Check out our videos! I have news for everyone it actually doesn’t matter whether the compliance form is going to be delayed or is going ahead because compliance in regard to what has been specified by the CIPC is in fact required! It was supposed to be carried out by all companies from that time the new Companies Act was implemented in 2011. By saying we can’t do the compliance form therefore we are not going to help our clients with the necessary compliance is in fact ridiculous! What’s even more critical is that every Company Secretarial Practitioner needs to produce an engagement or mandate letter which of course our system Sky Sec does if you are going to be involved in helping your clients comply and of course our integrated digital signature gets authority from your clients. So, the fact that a competitor cannot produce something to help their Secretarial Practitioner clients help their secretarial clients do the CIPC compliance does not mean that companies don’t have to do it. We all know that the law is the law and this is a wakeup call so let’s embrace it. The sections on the compliance form need to be done from now on and filed if necessary. Let’s do the necessary compliance and let’s carry out the laws of the country as we are supposed to! If any Company Secretarial Practitioner or company wishes to find out more about our system that will help you with this compliance please log onto the following link for a short video or give me a call or connect with me and watch for Fridays repeat webinar. https://vimeo.com/388816345 ITS NOT GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE
How does an accounting practise go from running a relatively reasonable system that works and in this instance, I refer to ProSeries? The firm is now faced with a choice of doing an upgrade either to SKY or to one of the competitors, and the competitor comes in and without really giving us an opportunity to pitch Sky, they go the competitor route? Maybe this is a price issue, maybe it is because one of the competitors has a fantastic working paper system and the firm thinks they are getting the same quality. We have had a few of these situations where clients have changed. The change is a huge effort with much trauma, therefore its really difficult to come back. Of course, the people within who made or helped make the decision have to protect their decision that they made! They do this by hanging in there at all costs. Sometimes they leave the firms because they can’t take the pressure! We had the situation where a relatively small 2 partner practice changed because of the pressure of the audit manager. The Partners called us in May 2017 and said "we cannot take this anymore, we are really struggling with our Debtors", but in fact the whole system and we want to come back to your software. Of course, we allowed them to come back and catch up as they started again at the 1st January 2017 redoing their work from the time they changed because they could not rely on their current data. These are the kind of things they told us they encountered.
I am not saying that we are perfect, but we certainly are now reaching a point where we are closer to perfection than anyone else. Listen to what our clients say. Have a look on www.accfinsoftware.com for the webinar with Andrew Alt of Charteris Barnes. 6/4/2017 DIGITAL SIGNATURES REDUCE RISKDear Client
You all know that over the years I have been preaching to tax practices on how to reduce their risk exposure. We have introduced something new for both ProSeries and SKY users in regard to the Tax Mandate. It is an e-Filing term and condition that you get a signed mandate from every tax client that you do work for. The mandate to use may be our mandate which you are welcome to change if you want to. This is going to work with our digital signature system. Your client will be able to sign the mandate electronically and the signed document with the signature will be returned to your system electronically. Please indicate your interest by responding to this e-mail and just say YES I am interested and we will get back to you with the set up. Please note that this is a precursor to the provisional tax run in August 2017. This system will save you many hours of labour. To find out more about digital signatures please click on the link below. http://www.accfinsoftware.com/digital-signatures.html You will find a short video and a webinar on the legal situation of digital signatures. Regards Mark |
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10/2/2020
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