Services
Financial operations without the chaos
Accounting, tax, payroll, company secretarial and advisory work handled on one agreed calendar, with scope and responsibilities recorded in writing before work starts.
Six service groups
What Dandane does, and what each service produces
Services can be taken individually or combined into a monthly package.
Monthly Accounting & Bookkeeping
Your records stay current, reconciled and ready for VAT, tax and year-end work instead of being rebuilt months later.
Typical inclusions
- Transaction processing and expense categorisation
- Bank, card and loan account reconciliations
- Debtors and creditors maintenance
- Trial balance and general-ledger review
- Management accounts at an agreed frequency
- Year-end file preparation for annual financial statements
Who it is for: Owner-managed businesses that need current records and regular reporting rather than a once-a-year catch-up.
Tax & SARS Compliance
Obligations are identified, prepared and submitted on a known schedule, and SARS correspondence is answered rather than accumulating.
Typical inclusions
- Company and individual income-tax returns
- Provisional tax calculations and submissions
- VAT return preparation and submission support
- Employer reconciliations and related submissions
- Tax-compliance status monitoring
- SARS correspondence, verifications and objections where within scope
Who it is for: Businesses with recurring SARS obligations, outstanding returns, or unresolved correspondence and penalties.
Payroll & Employer Compliance
Employees are paid on a predictable cycle, statutory deductions are calculated correctly and employer submissions are filed on time.
Typical inclusions
- Payroll processing on a monthly or agreed cycle
- Payslip preparation and distribution
- PAYE, UIF and SDL calculations
- EMP201 monthly declarations
- EMP501 employer reconciliations and IRP5/IT3(a) certificates
- Employee onboarding and termination documentation
- COIDA registration and annual return support
Who it is for: Employers who need payroll run accurately without carrying the compliance administration internally.
Company Secretarial & CIPC
Company records match reality at the CIPC, and annual obligations are filed before they become a deregistration risk.
Typical inclusions
- CIPC annual returns
- Beneficial-ownership filings
- Director appointments, resignations and changes
- Registered address and contact-detail changes
- Share register maintenance
- Company registrations and name reservations
- Memorandum of Incorporation amendments — [confirm scope]
Who it is for: Registered companies and close corporations that need statutory filings handled and records maintained.
Annual Financial Statements & Year-End
Year-end becomes a review of work already done, not a reconstruction of twelve months of records.
Typical inclusions
- Year-end working papers and supporting schedules
- Compilation of annual financial statements in accordance with IFRS for SMEs
- Adjusting journals and final trial balance
- Income-tax computation support
- Liaison with auditors or independent reviewers where required
- Prior-year comparatives and opening-balance verification
Who it is for: Businesses that need statements for SARS, funders, landlords or shareholders.
Advisory & Financial Management
Decisions about pricing, hiring, funding and spending are made against current numbers and a forward view of cash.
Typical inclusions
- Cash-flow forecasting and monitoring
- Budget preparation and variance review
- KPI reporting against agreed measures
- Management-account review meetings
- Scenario planning for hiring, pricing or capital decisions
- Profitability analysis by product, service or project
- Virtual finance-manager support on a retained basis
Who it is for: Growing businesses that need finance-manager input without a full-time appointment.
Payroll & employer compliance
Payroll that stands up to an employer reconciliation
Payroll errors surface later as reconciliation differences and employee tax queries. The cycle below is designed so the monthly numbers and the annual reconciliation agree.
Processing
- Monthly or agreed-cycle payroll runs
- Payslip preparation and distribution
- Leave and statutory-deduction inputs
- Employee onboarding and termination documentation
Employer submissions
- PAYE, UIF and SDL calculations
- EMP201 monthly declarations
- EMP501 reconciliations
- IRP5 and IT3(a) certificates
- COIDA registration and annual returns
Annual obligations
- CIPC annual returns
- Beneficial-ownership filings
- Confirmation of registered particulars
- Compliance-status monitoring
Changes and records
- Director appointments, resignations and changes
- Registered address and contact changes
- Share register maintenance
- Company registrations and name reservations
- MOI amendments — [confirm scope]
Company secretarial & CIPC
Statutory records that match the business
Annual returns and beneficial-ownership filings are separate obligations. Missing either can lead to deregistration proceedings, which then have to be reversed before banking, tenders or funding can proceed.
Annual financial statements
Year-end as a review, not a reconstruction
Where monthly work is current, year-end is a set of confirmations: reconciliations already performed, schedules already prepared and balances already verified.
Reporting framework applied: IFRS for SMEs
Advisory
Finance-manager input, on retainer
- Cash-flow forecasting
- Budget preparation
- KPI reporting
- Management-account reviews
- Scenario planning
- Profitability analysis
- Virtual finance-manager support
- Board or funder reporting — [confirm scope]
How it works
Five steps, on every engagement
01
Understand the current position
We review records, submissions, SARS and CIPC profiles, and the reporting you need.
02
Confirm scope and responsibilities
Deliverables, deadlines and both parties’ obligations are set out in an engagement letter.
03
Onboard records and systems
Access is arranged, opening balances verified, and any backlog scoped separately.
04
Deliver to the agreed calendar
Processing, review, submissions and reporting run on fixed dates.
05
Review, report and improve
Reports are discussed, recurring issues are traced to their cause, and the process is adjusted.
06
Re-scope as the business changes
Headcount, VAT status or volume changes are re-quoted and the calendar updated in writing.
Service questions
Scope, software and responsibility
Tax-specific questions are answered on the Tax & SARS page.
Can we use only one service instead of a monthly package?
Yes. Individual services can be scoped on their own, though recurring accounting, tax and payroll work is usually more efficient when it runs on one calendar.
Which accounting software does Dandane work with?
Xero, Sage, QuickBooks and Draftworx. Where you already have a platform in use, we work in it rather than moving you unnecessarily.
Who is responsible for submissions to SARS and the CIPC?
We prepare and review submissions, and file them once you have approved them. Where a submission requires a registered tax practitioner, the work is performed under SARS practitioner number PR0095887.
How is scope agreed and recorded?
Scope, deliverables, deadlines and both parties’ responsibilities are set out in a written engagement letter before work starts. Anything outside that scope is quoted before it is performed.
What are your turnaround times?
[Insert verified turnaround times per service.] We do not publish a turnaround commitment that has not been confirmed by the practice.
Can Dandane work alongside our internal bookkeeper?
Yes. A common arrangement is internal capture and payments, with Dandane handling reconciliations, reporting, compliance and review.
Is our information kept confidential?
Client information is treated as confidential and processed in line with POPIA. [Insert verified information-security and data-retention practices.]
Request a tailored scope
Send us your current setup and obligations. We will come back with a written scope, the deliverables and the fee basis.