Why You Need a Financial Close Plan
If you struggle to issue timely financial statements, or your financial statement falls apart under scrutiny, you need a financial close process and a close plan. In the blog titled You need a close-process, we discussed the financial close process, and gave examples of close…
IFRS 15 – Revenue from Contract with Customers: The Five Step Model?
IFRS 15 – Revenue from Contracts with Customers (IFRS 15), which became effective from 1 January 2018, makes significant changes to accounting for revenue. In this article we highlight the fundamental changes introduced by IFRS 15 and use a case to show the steps in…
GHANA REVENUE AUTHORITY(GRA) EXTENDS FILING DATE & WAIVE PENALTIES
GRA has responded to the disruptions to business by the Coronavirus and introduced measure to ease tax compliance. The highlights of the measures are: Taxpayers who redeem all their outstanding debts due GRA by June 30, 2020, will be granted a remission of penalties on…
Cyber Security Tips for Your Small Business
As a small business owner, you might think your business is not a target for a cyber-attack. Your business is as much a target as the big businesses. The criminals know that small businesses have weaker defenses, so you are in their sight. What is…
Inventory Controls to Prevent Waste and Theft
Retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers are typical businesses that hold inventory (stock). Inventory comes with risks such as damages, theft and obsolescence. It also ties up capital and has related administrative costs. You can lose money on inventory. But you don’t want to lose money so…
IFRS 15 – Revenue from Contracts with Customers: What is A Contract?
International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 15 – Revenue from contracts with customers came into effect on 1 January 2018. It defines revenue and sets the rules for recognizing, measuring and disclosing revenue from contracts with a customer. Having a contract with a customer is a…
Internal Control: The Means to Getting Hold of Your Business
There are forces at work to stop a business from achieving its objectives. To make sure it achieves its objectives, the business takes measures to stop those forces from negatively impacting the business. We call the forces that threaten the business, risk. The counter measures to…
WHO MUST FILE A TRANSFER PRICING RETURN IN GHANA?
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) finds that many companies do not file transfer pricing return. If you do not file transfer pricing returns you will pay a penalty. Yet, many people are unaware of the Transfer Pricing Regulation. Others are aware but unsure whether they…
TIER 3 PENSION SCHEME TAX BENEFITS
Our payroll team gets questions on Tier 3 Pension Scheme tax benefits. In this article, we discuss the frequently asked questions Tier 3 Scheme and its tax benefits. What is Tier 3 Scheme? It is a voluntary pensions scheme managed by private sector trustees licensed by…
Fraud Deterrence for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Employees and their accomplices committed 90% of bank frauds in 2017. Fraud or attempted fraud amounted to GHC 190.38M and actual losses through fraud was GHC30.8 in 2017[i]. Global occupational fraud cost organizations more that USD 7 billion in 2018 in cases reported to ACFE,…
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