Are you running beside your bicycle?
Need help to stop and jump on to the saddle?
At Cobus Kritzinger CA(SA) Management Consultants we help you become a visionary leader by creating solid foundations based on reputable, scalable systems and processes that ensure your business operates at peak financial performance.
We help you understand the scenarios that can affect your business’s financial health. We partner with you to provide a fresh, independent viewpoint and rigorous analysis with a steadfast commitment to your business’s growth.
We provide professional accounting services, financial management and analysis, and strategic advisory and consulting services while ensuring your business is legally compliant.
Because numbers tell a story – let us help you write your business’s success story.
If you want to be firmly in the driving seat, plotting your route for growth, call Cobus Kritzinger CA(SA) Management Consultants today for a free consultation.
We believe that nobody should have to run a business with numbers that don’t help their business grow.
DIRECTOR
Cobus Kritzinger
COBUS KRITZINGER CA (SA) RA
I’ve always been involved in sports of some kind. At school, it was rugby and athletics and although I never reached top-level awards I always performed well.
Later I started running, which included the Comrades, Two Oceans and many others that took me all around South Africa. The relationships and memories of this time are like trophies safely stored in a cupboard, but the life lessons I gained are the principles I live by.
I ran until an old ankle injury resurfaced and, to maintain the balance I enjoy between sport, family and my career, I needed to find a new sport. I found mountain biking.
Now, 20-odd years later and with several successful races under my belt –Cape Epic, Wines-2-Whales, Sani-2-Sea, Trans-Baviaans and the Karoo-2-Coast to name a few – mountain biking provides me with memories, an opportunity to do some analytical thinking, and time to test my bicycle, myself and my environment. I’ve learned countless life lessons on my bike.
These lessons include pushing boundaries to a place I didn’t think I’d get to, acknowledging my current circumstances and how I deal with them, and efficiencies and productivity such as how to reduce drag and capitalise on the momentum. Interestingly, these are qualities every business owner should also consider.
Running your own business has much in common with mountain biking – how to approach an uphill, the dangers of downhills, the importance of a buddy for the tough times, and coping with your ‘bike’ (staff, equipment, and capital) to maximise performance. It’s also about recognising when circumstances change and shifting gear accordingly.
As a chartered accountant for more than 30 years, and serving on the national directorship of two audit firms (PKF 1994 – 2012 and Mazars 2013 – 2016), I’ve realised that many problems are the same for all businesses. The number of zeros in your turnover may differ but the principles remain the same.
Because no two businesses are alike, it helps to have an external view – someone to help you identify problem areas in your business and provide a safe sounding board for finding solutions, as well as for strategising new options, and benchmarking better performance.
Stop! Get your systems in place so that you can stop running.
Our MISSION
Our MISSION defines our purpose, why we exist.
We CREATE services that increase our stakeholder’s profits, their business value and personal wealth. We do this through a single, CORE relationship – NOW.
- Create – we develop services, continuous process, we leave something behind, we are accountable for what we make
- diverse – many, various, unlimited
- solutions – plural, services, answers, actions, products
- stakeholders – everybody affected by our business operations (suppliers, clients, staff, SARS, the community, etc.)
- a single – one
- CORE – reiterate the brand name, central, nucleus, pivot point
- relationship – an emotional link between two or more parties
A mission statement provides the details of what is done and answers the question, “How do we do what we do?”. Your mission statement should also be specific enough that people understand what you do and how it may differ from your competitors.
Our EmployeesWorkplace Behaviour Statement
Efficiency
- I stick to deadlines
- I have a clean and/or neat desk
- I return a stakeholder’s call/email/SMS within 48 hours
- I complete tasks that are allocated to me
- I prepare properly for formal interactions with stakeholders
- I pro-actively follow up on outstanding tasks and assignments
- I update my skills and knowledge to remain not only relevant but abreast
Mutual respect for all stakeholders
- At the office
- I am on time
- I park in my allocated parking space
- I greet my colleagues
- In meetings
- I allow others the freedom to express themselves without interrupting them
- I focus on the agenda at hand and do not communicate with external parties
- I do not do any other work that is outside the scope of the meeting
- In general
- I do not use gestures, language and/or comments that are crude and disrespectful.
- I conserve firm and natural resources and limit wastage
- I dress in a manner that is equal to what is professionally expected by my stakeholders
- I use proper language when communicating with my stakeholders
- I use a tone of voice that is acceptable to all my stakeholders
- I empower and guide. I do not reprimand and belittle stakeholders in public or behind closed doors
- I do not use intimidating behaviour, like slamming doors and throwing objects
- I trust my stakeholders. I do not excessively and unreasonably monitor their responsibilities
- I address a conflict situation with the party concerned in a professional manner that is equal to the aforementioned before approaching a third party
Accountability statement
- I am accountable for all my actions. Should I not deliver on my commitment to the Workplace Behavior Statement, I will take corrective actions before the deadline. I will communicate this to the relevant stakeholders within a timeframe that is acceptable to them.
Our VISION defines the way our organization will look in the future.
The FUTURE – Globally Trusted Professionals
- Global – inspires us to grow/expand
- Trusted – inspires us to build trust relationships with all our stakeholders based on honesty, efficiency, accountability and mutual respect.
- Stakeholders
- All entities can affect or be affected by the organization’s actions, objectives and policies.
- They are our creditors, directors, employees, government (and agencies), owners (shareholders), suppliers, unions, and the community from which the business draws its resources.
- Stakeholders
- Professional – inspires us to deliver a quality service/product in a manner as defined by our stakeholders.
- Does not refer to professional bodies or professional career types. Refers to HOW we interact with our stakeholders.
Vision is a long-term view describing the goals of the organization. Our vision statements help to drive decisions and goals in our company.
Our VISION
WHY USE US?
MANAGEMENT
PROVIDE ANSWERS
EARLY DETECTION
Early detection of fraud, theft or any other irregularities.