At BDO South Africa, we are People helping People achieve their dreams. When our new trainees joined BDO South Africa this week, they took the first steps to achieving those dreams. To all of our new trainees we wish you success in achieving your dreams.

Always incredible to see the original homepage for Amazon. How many people fail to create something great b/c they're embarassed their first attempt will look like this, & never even give it a chance to grow to what it could become? Don't get stuck worrying about the first try.

#BDOProud of our Corporate Finance Team!

So important yet so poorly understood. A 'simple' all-lower-case 18-letter password (e.g., a sequence of 4-5 short words) is exponentially more secure than your uppercase-lowercase-number-symbol jumble. (Better if they're not dictionary words, but still good if they are.)

Very important to fix your Twitter feed: 1. Tap home button. 2. Tap stars on upper right of screen. 3. Select “Latest tweets”. You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize. Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.

How much you save today will determine what you can afford to buy in your retirement. #JustStart

Kaizer Chiefs walk away with ALL the bragging rights ✌👏 #SowetoDerby #DStvPrem

Kaizer Chiefs family hit ❤️ ⚽. ⚽ ⚽. ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ 🥅. The rest was history😂

Are you the first in your family to graduate? Here’s some advice from Akhona Modi BDO South Africa #financialplanning in conversation with maya fisher-french . mayaonmoney.co.za/2022/10/listen… #money #financialsecurity

It’s encouraging to see the level of engagement from the University of Johannesburg students in #financialplanning. The future is certainly bright for #CFP professionals in South Africa. Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. The Financial Planning Institute - SA

5 signs you might be financially illiterate. Can you recognise any of these traits in yourself? bdo.co.za/en-za/insights… via @BDO South Africa #financialplanning #goodadvice The Financial Planning Institute - SA

It is tought as a financial practice to survive out there after a tough couple of years. It is time to turn it around and thrive going forward. Read this article where Ricardo Teixeira and I team up in conversation with Gareth S…lnkd.in/dxEBsvTX bit.ly/3HLcTKE

Getting the best from your financial planning advice practice for 2023 - a checklist of focus areas to set you up for success. #businessplanning #strategy ⁦BDO South Africa⁩ fanews.co.za/article/interm…

Instead of referring to portfolios as “medium risk”, low-risk” or whatever, how about referring to them in terms of “Probability of running out of money in retirement?” It’s time to get better at framing the problem investors are really trying to solve.

📸: Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane convened a meeting with Gerard Ohlson de Fine from Umphakathi Development and Training, one of the Department’s partners in providing engineering skills within Schools of Specialisation and the Multi-Certification Skills Programme #GGT2030

Powerful chart from Ben Carlson about how it all averages out in the long run. The orange bars are 1-year returns in the market. The blue line shows the rolling 30-year returns. Amazing how stable it is in the end...? "One Year Returns Don't Matter" awealthofcommonsense.com/2023/07/one-ye…

For anyone thinking about leaving South Africa permanently, I'd like to attempt to share a balanced perspective on this topic as a well-seasoned traveller and someone that has lived away from home. I spend a lot of time in Europe and whenever I visit, I’m always struck by a

Our cities are in need of independent leadership. The frequent changes in cadre-deployed leadership (all parties), results in tenures too short to achieve any meaningful progress. ⁦City of Joburg⁩ ⁦Business Day⁩ ⁦The Presidency 🇿🇦⁩ businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/col…

White smoke! The 133 Cardinal electors gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected the new Pope. He will appear soon at the central window of St. Peter’s Basilica.