Send us the books.
We will tell you exactly
what is wrong.
The inspection is a week of structured review — your ledger, your eFiling profile and your CIPC record — ending in a written findings note: what is broken, what is merely untidy, what is outstanding at SARS, and what each costs to put right.
- No fee and no obligation
- Findings note is yours to keep either way
- Fixed quote before any work begins
The enquiry
Direct
- swan786ventures@gmail.com
- saadiar@bkas.co.za
- 071 490 7856
- JohannesburgGauteng, South Africa
Hours
- Mon – Fri · 08:00 – 17:00 SAST
- Close lands day six of each month
Bookkeeping across Johannesburg and beyond
We are based in Johannesburg and work remotely with clients across South Africa — the ledger lives where you already work, so there is nothing to drive to.
SARS eFiling, CIPC and every bank we work with are online, so where your office happens to be makes no difference to how the work gets done. Clients who want to meet in person, we meet in person.
Before you write
The questions we are asked most, answered without hedging.
No. We keep the ledger and prepare the returns and schedules; your accountant, accounting officer or auditor signs off the annual financial statements and advises on structure and tax planning. Most clients find the relationship improves, because their accountant finally receives a trial balance that ties instead of a folder of bank statements.
We prepare every return — VAT201, EMP201, EMP501, IRP6 support — and reconcile it to the ledger before it goes anywhere. Submission on your eFiling profile is done either by us once you have added us as a user on your profile, or by your registered tax practitioner where the engagement is set up that way. We will confirm which applies to you in the engagement letter.
We have rebuilt ledgers seven years cold from bank statements and gateway exports. There is no backlog we refuse on principle — only ones where the source documents genuinely no longer exist, and we tell you that during the inspection rather than after taking a fee. If SARS has already raised penalties, the findings note quantifies them so you know the full position up front.
Sage Business Cloud, Sage Pastel Partner, Xero, QuickBooks Online and Zoho Books, with SimplePay or PaySpace for payroll and Dext for document capture. If you have no preference we recommend one after the inspection based on your trade, and migrate you into it properly rather than importing a balance and hoping.
Registration is compulsory once taxable supplies exceed R1 million in any consecutive twelve-month period, or where you have contracted to exceed it. Voluntary registration is available from R50,000. We monitor the threshold as part of the monthly close and flag it well before you cross, because registering late is a far more expensive problem than registering early.
One ninety-minute inspection call, read-only access to your bank profile and accounting software, and being added as a user on your SARS eFiling profile. After that the standing commitment is answering one question list a month and approving a payment run — under an hour, most months.
The monthly fee is fixed against the transaction volume band written into your engagement letter. If you cross a band we tell you before the invoice changes, never after. Clean-up work is quoted as a fixed-scope project after the inspection, and nothing is billed by the hour.
Read-only bank access wherever your bank supports it, multi-factor authentication on every system including eFiling, encrypted document exchange, and no client records held on local machines. Personal information is processed in line with POPIA, and access is revoked the day an engagement ends.
Thirty days written notice, no exit fee, and your data exported in full with a handover memo covering the state of the ledger, outstanding returns and anything your next bookkeeper needs to know. Books held hostage is not a business model we are interested in.