Member Benefits
SAIPA Members have access to the following exclusive benefits
SAIPA Newsletters and Journals
Stay up to date with the latest SAIPA newsletters and publications for SAIPA Members.
Professional Indemnity Insurance
VKN Financial Services(Pty) Ltd has developed a tailor-made and unique Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance scheme exclusive to SAIPA members. It is underwritten by Lombard Insurance Company, via Leppard Underwriting Managers who specialise in insuring the liability of professionals, with a particular focus on the accounting and auditing professions:
- For practicing members in 2021, the Professional Indemnity insurance cover provides cover of R7.5 million and the Directors and Officers liability cover is R2.5 million.
- For members of SAIPA Centre of Tax Excellence (CoTE) and SAIPA Centre of Business Advisory (CoBA), Professional Indemnity provides cover of R4 million.
For more information, please contact Delwena Naidoo at VKN Financial Services on
TEL: +27 11 023 7265 | MOBILE: +27 76 383 1545 | EMAIL: delwena@vknfs.co.za
Assetsure Insurance Benefits SAIPA
AssetSure insurance is a tailor-made asset insurance that aims to cover all your business needs, specifically as a business owner.
For more information, please contact Dale Stone at VKN Financial Services on
TEL: +27 11 023 7265 | MOBILE: +27 76 594 8380 | EMAIL: dale@vknfs.co.za
SAIPA Official Publications
As a SAIPA member you will receive our official publications – the Professional Accountant, the Tax Professional – which give you updates and technical articles for your career as a Professional Accountant (SA). These publications will also provide you with insights and articles relevant to accountancy, as well as trends to keep you abreast of the profession. In addition, SAIPA’s TechNews and TaxNews electronic publications are emailed every month.
SAIPA Your Law
SAIPA has partnered with the Contemporary Gazette to make access to information very easy for professionals. Members will receive regular insightful updates on relevant new laws, a comprehensive database of new laws, new laws can be searched according to latest additions, by category, by search or alphabetically as well as unique features such as laws containing related content on the same page and red flags enable the user to see recent/proposed changes in context to current text.
SAIPA Monthly issues are emailed to SAIPA members – watch your inbox for the latest updates
CaseWare
SAIPA members get an exclusive SAIPA online bundle, payable over 4, 6 or 12 months. CaseWare offers a more comprehensive financial statement software package on our CaseWare Cloud platform to members in practice. Our financial statement solution is trusted by more than 1 100 SAIPA firms. Included in the SAIPA online bundle are:
- CaseWare Licence
- CaseWare Connector
- CaseWare Cloud
- PTY for SMEs
- Close Corporations
- Sole Proprietor & Partnership templates
- SAIPA working papers
- Annual training
- *Trust and Body Corporate templates are not included in the bundle
Get in Touch with a CaseWare adviser: +27 10 494 1002
CAMAF
All SAIPA members are eligible to become members of CAMAF (Chartered Accountants (SA) Medical Aid Fund), either as an individual or an employer group, subject to the eligibility criteria as per the Fund Rules. CAMAF is a trusted medical aid that gives its members peace of mind when it comes to the management of the scheme, as its Board of Trustees is made up of professionals who have a high regard for good corporate governance. They ensure that the delivery of excellent products and services is suitably balanced with sound reserves.
To join, email: newbusiness@camaf.co.za
The Financial Specialists
We have negotiated a 50% discount for all SAIPA members with The Financial Specialists (TFS). TFS is a Risk Management Brokerage specialising in providing insurance cover to Professionals. TFS focus on Risk Cover, Investments, Wills and Estates and Business Assurance. All advice is supported by a full Financial Analysis and a free review of your current insurance.
Draftworx
SAIPA Members get up to 15% discount on subscription fees with DraftWorx (T&Cs apply). Draftworx is a fully integrated, compliant, automated drafting and working paper suite designed in collaboration with some of the world’s greatest accounting & auditing minds.
Covering the smallest to largest engagements, the solution includes financial statements, XBRL reporting, working papers, audit methodologies, collaboration tools and digital signatures in an affordable desktop license, pay as you use cloud or hybrid variant.
Draftworx for SAIPA Accounting Officer Working Papers
Draftworx Accounting Officer+ Working Papers have been developed largely based on the SAIPA Working Papers. It incorporates key questions and procedures from the SAIPA working papers, as well as items drawn from our other methodologies. The combined working papers create consistency with our other existing methodologies (creating a familiar flow which will minimise learning time for users) combined with the comfort of using high quality steps and procedures from an established methodology provided by SAIPA.
SYFT
SAIPA members who are new Syft users will receive a 25% discount on their first 6 months of any monthly Syft subscription. Make better decisions using your financial data with Syft Analytics.
Syft Analyticsis a reporting and data analytics software that integrates with accounting software to help you understand financial data. Since 2017, Syft has grown to serve over 5,000 accountants in more than 50 countries who go on to produce thousands of reports, dashboards, and actionable insights every month for their business clients.
Syft is on a mission to evolve the way businesses, corporates, analysts, accountants, and advisors use financial data. Syft Analytics is full of features that help you understand financial data, create reports, forecast the future, track progress, and benchmark performance. Connect data from Sage, Xero, QuickBooks, and Excel. Syft simplifies the process with clear visualisations, taking you from data to decisions in minutes.