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SAICA is one year into its new five-year strategy, which was developed with significant input from individual members and stakeholders. Whilst the strategy was developed on the foundation of SAICA and the CA(SA) brand having achieved the status of the most trusted accounting institute and designation worldwide, SAICA recognises the importance of continuing to invest in maintaining these positions of trust.

The strategic pillars that will drive SAICA’s activities for the next four years are:

• Accelerated member value,
• Attractiveness and transformation,
• Economic and social relevance, and
• Winning organisation.
  

Accelerated Member Value
SAICA aims to accelerate member engagement and support through comprehensive programmes and services that support members' professional development and in areas of well-being.

Several projects to gain member insights were undertaken in 2024. These include understanding the satisfaction levels of over 34,000 individual members and associates, and the factors that drive both satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The outcomes of this project will see the implementation of initiatives over several years that will increase member satisfaction with the institute and its three designations.

In ensuring that members and associates meet their professional development needs with minimal cost, SAICA provided a comprehensive suite of initiatives, with over 40 hours of complimentary products delivered in 2024. These included:

• The Tech Talk series, which incorporates 2,5 hours of relevant technical updates each month from February to November
• Sustainability-related events and products
• Events and products related to audit reform, both thought leadership and technical
• The two-day Finance Leaders Conference
• Member wellbeing events
• The Tax Practitioner Induction training for tax practitioners
• Selected networking events.
  

Recordings of the complimentary seminars are available to all registrants on the eVolve platform.

SAICA is excited to roll-out a diverse suite of development programs including a dedicated focus on sustainability capacity building. This will include a complimentary sustainability fundamentals training program in 2025.

SAICA will continue to provide complimentary products and services that are relevant to members.

SAICA collaborates with many international organisations and institutes to best serve members’ interests. SAICA advocates through its representation on IFAC, and best practices are ensured through participation in GAA and CAW forums.

Providing members and associates with a sense of community is central to the membership experience, which is being comprehensively optimised.

In order to achieve this, 33% of the SAICA 2025 budget has been allocated to Accelerated Member Value.

Attractiveness and Transformation
SAICA fosters leadership and decision-making skills through innovative and future-focused continuous development. It promotes profession-wide growth, relevance and sustainability by expanding the talent pipeline and membership base while championing diversity, inclusion, and transformation to benefit disenfranchised South Africans.

It does so by developing competent members and associates at the entry point to the profession, attracting and growing an inclusive and accessible profession, and transforming the profession.

In 2025, further enhancements to the qualifying exams will be implemented that will improve the relevance of entrants into the profession. Interventions to support the IAC (previously ITC) and APC repeat candidates are planned. Increased engagements with training offices are planned to identify possible refinements and efficiencies to the training office administration process.

In 2025, 36% of the budget has been allocated to transforming and making the profession more attractive.

Economic and Social Relevance
The objectives of ensuring economic and social relevance include developing ethical members and associates, enabling audit reforms, advocating for a professionalised public sector, implementing an Integrated Sustainability Plan, and advocating for the profession’s role in sustainable economic development together with members.

6% of the 2025 budget has been allocated to initiatives supporting this pillar.

Winning organisation
SAICA is transforming into a fit-for-the-future organisation that is adaptable, purpose-driven and value-focused.

This is being achieved through the finalisation of the Ushintsho Project, which itself is part of a broader initiative to digitally transform SAICA and which has provided a foundation to enable SAICA to be an insight-driven organisation. An organisational review has been completed, and the proposed operating model has been approved by the Board. The organisational design changes will be implemented from the first quarter of 2025 to ensure the Institute is structured optimally to enable the intended outcomes determined in the strategy.

These and other initiatives ensure that the foundation on which the current strategy is built will enable SAICA, its members and associates, as well as the profession to continue to set the benchmark for the next four years.

SAICA has budgeted 25% of its 2025 budget to develop a winning organisation.

2025 Membership subscriptions
The SAICA Board approved a 5,5% increase in membership subscriptions for 2025, and a 0% increase for members and associates over 60 years of age.

Please see the subscription fees for 2025 below: