Your digital accountant · since 2012

Open when
you are.

Accounting, tax, payroll and secretarial for South African business owners — run by people who answer, with a client area that never closes.

Your books live in
2012 14 years of year-ends
5.0 38 reviews on Google
CPA Australia FCPA AustraliaFellow, Certified Practising Accountant
SAIPA SAIPAProfessional Accountant (SA) · M.Com Finance

What we do

Nine services,
by how often
you think about them.

Alphabetical lists are for accountants. This is the order a business owner lives in.

Every month

01
  • Accounting

    Books current in Xero, Sage, QuickBooks or BeanworX. Management accounts before you ask.

  • Payroll

    Payslips, EMP201, UIF and SDL. Run, submitted, reconciled.

  • Virtual CFO

    A standing session on cash, margin and the next twelve months.

Every year

02
  • Taxation

    Company, trust and personal returns, provisional tax, objections, SARS letters.

  • Independent Reviews

    Annual financial statements and the review your public interest score calls for.

  • Secretarial

    CIPC returns, director changes, beneficial ownership. Kept in good standing.

When you need it

03
  • Valuations

    A defensible number for a sale, a buy-out or a funder — workings shown.

  • Financial Modelling

    Forecasts you can actually change. Hire two people. Lose a client. Raise prices.

  • System Training

    Your team taught the system properly once, instead of guessing for three years.

The board behind the counter

The dates that
cost money.

This board is live. Every date is worked out from the SARS rules, weekends and South African public holidays — not typed in.

Compliance board — Example Client (Pty) Ltd February year-end · VAT category A · 4 employees
DueFormWhat it isCountdown
07 Oct 2026 Wednesday EMP201 Monthly PAYE, UIF and SDLDue the 7th, or the last business day before it. In 17 days
30 Oct 2026 Friday EMP501 Interim employer reconciliationCovers March to August. Mismatched IRP5 data is the usual culprit. In 40 days
30 Oct 2026 Friday VAT201 VAT return and paymentCategory A — periods end in odd months, filed the month after. In 40 days
26 Feb 2027 Friday IRP6 Second provisional tax paymentMust land within 20% of the final liability, or SARS adds a penalty. Scheduled
26 Feb 2027 Friday ITR14 Company income tax returnTwelve months after the financial year end. Scheduled
31 May 2027 Monday EMP501 Annual employer reconciliationThe full tax year, and the IRP5s your staff file their own returns with. Scheduled
31 Aug 2027 Tuesday IRP6 First provisional tax paymentHalf the estimated year, paid six months in. Scheduled

Personal income tax (ITR12) is added each July, once SARS confirms the season's closing date. Calculated 20 Sep 2026

The practice

Small, and
deliberately so.

No call centre. We are digital accountants — the person who does your work is the person who answers you.

Peter Pappas

Peter Pappas

Managing Partner

Lourdes Vewas

Lourdes Vewas

Accounts Administrator

Kavan Merle

Kavan Merle

Accounts Administrator

Bronwyn McIntyre

Bronwyn McIntyre

Accounts Administrator

Owen Howell

Owen Howell

Accounts Administrator

Michelle Gillie

Michelle Gillie

Secretarial & Payroll

What it's like to be a client

You get a counter,
not an inbox.

Every client gets a login: what we're waiting on, every document we've ever prepared for you, your statements — and the document tools that save you e-mailing us in the first place.

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Document tools

Open a file and pick what to do with it — or choose a tool first. Nothing leaves this server.

12 tools · no limits
Drop a file anywhere on this page PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG or PNG — up to 100 MB Choose a file

Edit & sign Client

Text, dates, ticks, white-out and your signature, on any PDF.

Merge & organise Free

Combine PDFs, reorder, rotate, delete pages.

Split PDF Free

Break one PDF into separate files, by page or range.

Photos → PDF Free

Phone photos and scans into one clean PDF.

Convert to PDF Client

Word, Excel, PowerPoint or text in — PDF out.

Unlock PDF Free

Strip the password off a PDF you have the password for.

Protect PDF Client

Put a password on it so only the right people can open it.

Compress PDF Free

Shrink a big PDF until it will actually attach to an e-mail.

PDF → JPG Client

Export each page of a PDF as an image.

PDF → Word / Excel Client

Turn a PDF back into something you can edit.

Make it searchable Client

Add a text layer to a scan so it can be searched.

Send it to us Client

Answer one of our requests, or drop a file into your file.

12 document tools, self-hosted on our own server — no watermarks, no third-party website, no client document leaving the practice. 5 are open to anyone; the rest come with being a client.

Rated on Google

5.0 38 REVIEWS · NONE BELOW FIVE

14 years.
Not one bad review.

Read them yourself, or add yours — both go straight to our Google listing.

Let's have a coffee.

Thirty minutes, no charge, no pitch. Bring last year's numbers and the thing that's bothering you.

Book a free consultation WhatsApp us

Both come straight to us. No forms, no switchboard.