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Deloitte, one of the country's leading professional services firms, provides audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services through nearly 3 600 people in 8 cities in South Africa and 16 cities in Southern Africa. Deloitte is the South African member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
Our vision is to be recognised as the best professional services firm in Southern Africa.
Our mission is to help our clients and our people excel.
We focus on solving business issues and adding value to our clients through our shared values.In addition, organisations battle to determine their future learning needs accurately.
Our solutions mirror this understanding and span people issues across areas such as succession planning, career pathing, competency and functional assessments, graduate / specialist / management / leadership development and vocational learnership implementation.
Our clients believe Deloitte unquestionably leads the way with innovations in learning, offering a unique response to address South African vocational skills development.
Services we offer:
Africa Business Services
Audit
Consulting
Corporate Finance
Deloitte of Tomorrow
Risk Advisory
Legal
M&A and Transaction Services
Reorganisation Services
Special Services Group
Tax Services
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Major projects that Deloitte supported during this financial year include:
Future leaders development programme (FLDP)
This programme was established to actively facilitate the employment of unemployed graduates in the country. The FLDP entails the recruitment, formal training and provision of workplace experience to a selected group of graduates, recruited from the Thusanani Workplace Readiness project, sponsored by the Financial and Advisory Services Sector Education and Training Authority (FASSET). The 2008 intake saw a staggering 82% of the graduates successfully employed by various business units within Deloitte.
Project Siyakhula
A programme which is run by Deloitte trainee accountants across South Africa to assist disadvantaged pupils from townships in areas of accounting and mathematics. They have assisted over 1000 students (Grade 10s, 11s and Grade12s) and the success of this programme has been seen from some of the learners being recognised by the Department of Education as top learners in the various regions. Our 2009 programme has also seen the introduction of a leadership and development programmes which ultimately seeks to help students harness their unique leadership potential and to empower them to become phenomenal leaders.
Thuthuka Trust
Thuthuka trust is the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants transformation initiative to promote the study of Mathematics, Science and English at school level. In so doing, Thuthuka works to develop teaching skills in these areas and provides bursaries for students from disadvantaged backgrounds wanting to pursue chartered Accountancy as a career. Deloitte makes a grant contribution towards Thuthuka annually towards the bursary fund.
Junior Achievement South Africa (JASA)
JASA offers a range of education programmes to school going children and teenagers from all communities concerning the benefits of the free enterprise system, the nature of enterprise and entrepreneurship. The purpose of JASA is to prepare young people for life after school by raising their awareness of economic issues, teaching them entrepreneurial and life skills, providing them with an understanding of the business world and enhancing their sense of personal responsibility through practical business experience. Deloitte has supported JASA financially to enable Project Siyakhula schools to benefit from the programme.
LEAP Science and Maths School
LEAP is a school for exceptional but disadvantaged high school pupils from local townships. Their aim is to enable the students to gain access to tertiary study opportunities by graduating from the school with a university exemption, particularly with Science and Maths on higher grade. LEAP also provides many opportunities such as extra lessons, youth and community involvement, feeder schemes, crèches, and life coaching, among others. Deloitte Foundation supported LEAP with a financial grant to integrate Project Siyakhula Cape Town among other activities with LEAP projects.
Jumpstart
Jumpstart is an innovative career guidance and life skills booklet targeted at Grade 9 to Grade 12 learners in schools countywide. Jumpstart educates, empowers and uplifts the learners and the educators/facilitators, by disseminating crucial information relating to self knowledge, skills development, entrepreneurship, health awareness, career guidance and many other topics that are relevant to society. Deloitte Foundation made a financial grant to Jumpstart and continues to distribute the handbooks to various schools.
Sparrow Schools
Sparrow Schools provides affordable, specialised education to disadvantaged and disabled children between the ages of 7 and 18. Sparrow Schools run two separate educational projects and a job creation initiative. Situated in Johannesburg, the projects cater for 650 learners annually. These learners have varying degrees of educational backlog, remedial problems, learning difficulties and/ or intellectual disabilities. Deloitte Foundation supported Sparrow Schools with a grant contribution towards their enterprise development project.
Imperial Ukhamba Community Development Trust
Ukhamba's mission is to form synergies and partnerships with local and international companies wanting to make meaningful contributions to the advancement of people from previously disadvantaged groups. Deloitte assisted the Ukhamba trust to develop the pre-primary section of Fine Town Primary school in Vlakfontein.
ACFS Community Education and Feeding Scheme
The ACFS is a registered Non-Profit Organisation with a primary focus on combating malnutrition. The ACFS now reaches into many areas of Gauteng, alleviating poverty, running HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns, setting up and organising community and individual feeding initiatives and co-ordinating community upliftment programmes. Deloitte Foundation supported the ACFS with a grant contribution to start up an enterprise development initiative in beadwork and sewing projects to enable the beneficiaries to become self sustainable.
Helping Hands programme - Charities Aid Foundation Southern Africa (CAFSA)
Helping Hands is the Deloitte staff voluntary giving programme which allows employees to give money to charitable causes. For every Rand employees donate, the Deloitte Foundation will match that donation rand for rand. This enables the contributions to have a far bigger impact. The Charities Aid Foundation of Southern Africa (CAFSA) is Deloitte's partner in the Helping Hands scheme and administers and distributes the contributions to the beneficiaries.
Bokamoso Trust
Bokamoso Education Trust's primary vision is to provide the necessary financial support for each child's education (Grade 0 to 12). Secondary to this, we facilitate the opportunity for donors to take an active and personal role in the child's development through mentorship should they wish to do so. Vuleka is Bokamoso's partner and assists them in identifying these children in need. Deloitte Foundation supported Bokamoso with a financial grant towards the education of the beneficiaries.
TEACH South Africa
TEACH SA is a non-profit organisation which aims to effectively respond to declining learning performance in South Africa in the areas of Maths, Science, Technology and English by recruiting graduates to teach the subjects in disadvantaged schools, in urban and rural areas, for a period of two years. Successful candidates become TEACH SA Ambassadors and benefit from professional teacher training, business management and leadership skills training, holiday internships at corporates and networking opportunities with eminent people. Deloitte provided TEACH SA with human resource support and donated laptops.
Impact Day
IMPACT Day is a firm wide initiative that brings Deloitte staff closer to local communities. It is an enriching experience for all involved Deloitte staff to get personally involved to make a difference in the lives of the impoverished communities where we do business. On this day, Deloitte professionals around the world set aside their normal business commitments to go out and add value to the lives of the communities within which they operate. Some of the initiatives we undertake include organised visits to schools, crèches and various organisations to carry out repairs, planting trees, providing career guidance and skills training. Impact day is a further illustration of Deloitte's commitment to responsibility and sensitivity to our local communities.
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Press Room
Deloitte Predicts what COP17 may hold in store for your Organisation
17 Nov 2011
The outlook for the next meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference / Meeting of the Parties - COP17/MOP7 - is to be held over two weeks from the end of November in Durban, South Africa, has left many uncertain on the way forward.
7 Nov 2011
Making your current business grow is one strategy. Growing beyond your current business is another. Which one offers greater benefits and how important is the difference?
IT Consumerisation Should Not Be Ignored
3 Aug 2011
The "IT Consumerisation" wave is gathering significant momentum and will crash onto our shores in South Africa. The extent to which organisations benefit from this will depend entirely on the ability of CIO's and CFO's to jointly review the business value and related risks of the "Bring-your-Own" approach to deploying user technologies.
High Employee Turnover could Hinder Company Progress
30 Sep 2010
A talent exodus of unprecedented proportion will soon threaten unprepared companies. As prevailing economic fears recede, key employees who held on to their jobs throughout the economic downturn begin to investigate the prospect of better opportunities. In anticipation, savvy business leaders need to actively shift their priorities in order to keep their workforces intact.
30 Sep 2010
Johannesburg, June 2010 - Recently released analysis of the Deloitte Best Company to Work for Survey for 2009 indicates that senior employees are happiest at work. This report reveals that employee satisfaction with their employers appears to increase with job level and age while females tend to report higher levels of contentment with their employers than their male counterparts.
Bonus Payouts – should executives receive bonuses while employees go without?
30 Sep 2010
During the recession while employees faced retrenchment, salary freezes and bonus cuts, news of executives receiving large compensation packages and financial incentives was met with wide-scale disapproval. With National Treasury forecasting a 2.3 percent growth for 2010, indicating that the recession is officially over, employees will no longer accept the issuance of large salary packages and bonuses for executives, while their financial incentives remain unaltered.
Talent Management during the Economic Upturn: Preparing for the “Résumé Tsunami”
30 Sep 2010
By David Conradie, Director of Human Capital at Deloitte and Head of the annual Deloitte Best Company to Work for Survey.
The global recession saw many companies implement defensive actions, such as layoffs and cutbacks, in order to contain costs and remain afloat.
Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index:
30 Sep 2010
South Africa is still basking in the glow of praise for having hosted a tremendously successful World Cup, both on and off the pitch. The highly successful partnership between business and government in getting the infrastructure ready, coupled with the supercharged atmosphere of pride, excitement and hospitality generated by the country's people, were the essential ingredients for success.
The Tax Implications of Cloud Computing
30 Sep 2010
Cloud computing has been described as equivalent to using an electricity grid. Instead of maintaining a full IT infrastructure, companies using this model 'plug into' a cloud solution, which is provided by a third party via the internet, as and when they need to. Another similarity with an electricity grid is that cloud computing service providers sometimes bill according to what is referred to as the utility computing model - in other words, customers pay according to their actual usage of resources from the grid. The alternative billing methodology is a subscription model.
Cloud Computing Requires a New Approach to Risk Management
30 Sep 2010
As businesses have become more and more dependant on IT, so have the associated security risks increased. And as cloud computing becomes more widely adopted due to the many benefits it offers, so CIOs have had to rethink their IT security strategy.
30 Sep 2010
The consumer market has taken to cloud computing far faster than the business market. According to research done by Cisco Systems, Global IP Traffic Forecast and Methodology; Mobility segment, and published in a report by Deloitte Consulting, the private use of the Internet overtook business use in 2008 and has been accelerating ahead ever since.
Good News for Members of Loyalty Programmes
30 Sep 2010
Are you one of those consumers who have found it difficult to redeem the points you have accumulated on loyalty programmes for spending your hard-earned cash?
Cloud computing in a South African business context
30 Sep 2010
Cloud computing is making headlines and South African businesses and organisations are starting to look for ways to integrate it into their operations. Part of this recent growth in interest could be attributed to its cost-effectiveness in that application development, maintenance, data storage and IT infrastructure in the cloud are in the hands of the third party service providers and the service is completely scalable according to an organisation's needs.
What are the employee implications of moving to cloud computing?
30 Sep 2010
Cloud computing represents a shift in IT architecture, sourcing and services delivery. The Cloud is a collection of internet-based or private-network services providing users with scalable IT services including software, development platforms and virtualised servers.
10 Things a CEO should know about cloud computing
30 Sep 2010
Given that cloud computing is a further improvement on the outsourcing model, CEOs leading companies of all sizes have an opportunity to explore the benefits cloud computing could offer to their supply chain. According to a Deloitte report on cloud computing, there are 10 things every CEO should know about cloud computing.
Deloitte Input for Business Day Feature
30 Sep 2010
- The African continent holds great investment potential for both domestic and international investors. The fact that businesses in Africa weathered the economic downturn is a success story in itself. For a long time, there has been a perception of Africa as a continent carrying too high risk without the commensurate reward; the fact is that this is perception born of fear of the unknown, lack of knowledge and understanding.
30 Sep 2010
Companies can achieve measurable improvements in business performance by approaching the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Bill as a strategic opportunity rather than an onerous compliance obligation. Realising this potential value from the Bill, however, requires a shift in organisational mindset.
Is POPI a Necessary Evil or Opportunity for Value Add?
30 Sep 2010
The corporate world is currently debating the Protection of Personal Information Bill (POPI) which will soon be promulgated. Much of this debate centres on how onerous the minimum requirements for compliance will be, how long organisations will be given to comply and what the cost implications are likely to be.
30 Sep 2010
The positive environment around hosting the 2010 FIFA Soccer World CupTMhas provided a welcome respite in some quarters from the increasingly intense scrutiny on the leadership and political machinations surrounding the ANC.
Economic Recovery Earlier than Anticipated
30 Sep 2010
The Deloitte 2010 CFO survey results confirm recent positive economic data that South Africa's recovery is indeed here for 2010 and likely to continue into 2011.
Risks Keeping Executives Awake at Night
30 Sep 2010
Margin pressures are the most significant risk factor that companies will encounter over the next 12 months. This, together with political uncertainty, is keeping executives awake at night. This is according to the findings of the second CFO survey announced recently by Deloitte.
Recession Re-Writes CFO's Role
30 Sep 2010
The downturn has had a major impact on CFOs and their roles. Not only has it reinforced a tendency towards more operational functions but also significantly increased stress levels through a surge in their responsibilities, enlarging their roles and often imposing challenging resource constraints. This is one of the findings of the recent Deloitte 2010 CFO survey.
Deloitte Input for Business Day
30 Sep 2010
Internationally, the legal profession has evolved; the question is to what extent has it evolved in the South African environment?
Risk of Non-Compliance with Competition Law
30 Sep 2010
The first few months of 2009 saw the Competition Commission carry out investigations into supermarket chains and wholesalers, the bicycle, piped gas, and the pre-cast concrete industries.
Deloitte Input for Business Day Insight
30 Sep 2010
• "In recent months, expectations have taken hold in some parts of the private financial sector that the financial and regulatory system will remain little changed from its pre-crisis contours. These expectations - that business will be able to go on just as before - need to be dispelled." - Report of the Financial Stability Board to the G20 leaders, 25 September 2009
Transformation is Key to Personal and Professional Effectiveness
30 Sep 2010
[Article by Grant Gelink, CEO of Deloitte]
We at Deloitte believe that every one of us has the responsibility to be more than passive observers in the process of transforming our country.
Deloitte United on the African Continent
30 Sep 2010
Deloitte Southern Africa and Deloitte East Africa sign cooperation agreement.
Johannesburg hoteliers score during FIFA World Cup
30 Sep 2010
Analysis by Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has found that revenue per available room (revPAR), a key performance indicator for the hotel industry, in South Africa for the month of June 2010 climbed 121.7% to ZAR1,099, compared with the same period last year, when it became the first African nation to host the FIFA World Cup.
How Fraud Healthy is Your Company?
30 Sep 2010
Fraud is a global scourge which costs the typical organisation 5% of its annual turnover, estimated at $2.9 trillion globally. This is according to the 2010 annual report of the Association for Certified Fraud Examiners in the USA. The median loss in 1843 fraud cases worldwide between January 2008 and December 2009 was $160,000 while a quarter of the cases involved losses of at least $1 million.