We’re an authentically African Audit, Advisory and bespoke Tech company with a global fit, providing seamless, multidisciplinary solutions to support and grow your business. This is firmly within our ambition of creating sustainable business solutions that benefit our communities.
Our approach is to use industry leaders with a notable track record and specialist in their respective disciplines. We pride ourselves in being a truly authentic South African firms with a global reach (B-BBEE level I). We search deeper to find the solutions or opportunities that are not evident or obvious and provide the tools and support to help you connect the dots and to build “sustainable businesses and communities.”
GrowthStone is a boutique firm with a wide range of clients, from the likes of large mulinationals to family owned businesses. We have more than 80-year combined audit and advisory experience and are registered with the following institutions:
Independent Regulatory Board of Auditors
Institute of Directors
South African Institute of Chartered Accountants
The firm has a reach throughout Sub-Saharan Africa (East, West and Southern Africa) through established various partnerships, in line with governments ethos of us becoming the preferred business partner for “offshore as well as local work.”
OUR SERVICES INTEGRATED ASSURANCE ADVISORY CORPORATE FINANCE TECHNOLOGY
Our goal at GrowthStone is to work alongside our clients to provide bespoke services to our clients to help them unlock value. We do this through partnerships. Here are some of our strategic partners.
Assurance Area
We work with number of the large audit firms from assisting them to capacitate on certain engagaements as well as provide certain spcialised skills.
GS | ISCC consist of various client and enablement services teams primarily focussed on the audit arena that operate to deliver strategic support to our partner firms in their quest to deliver exceptional client services in an efficient way. Through ISSC Africa our vision is to become the firm of choice in outsourced audit services for Africa. ISSC is based initially out of Johannesburg & New Delhi, but our intention is to build this through the BRICS countries.
Advisory Area
GS | SIB has provided an easy to use, customisable Disaster Recovery and Business continuity solutions and templates to over 30,000 businesses and has developed a hosted DR platform. Their DR/BC platforms established a clear chain of command, are flexible and adaptable with built in analytical function and emergency communication capabilities. Some of the benefits include:
Simplified DR/BC Platform
Customized DR Plan
Recover faster
Cloud based
Multi location capability
Through GS | Connor, we identify opportunities of tangible cost savings with a direct impact to the Company’s cashflow and overall valuation. Such is our confidence in our abilities to identify opportunities to optimise IT supplier spend, we will only earn our fees once the cost savings are realised!
Connor’s complete portfolio of Software Advisory Solutions include:
IT Contract Optimization (Renewals and New Agreements)
End to end Software Asset Management and Managed Care ( SAMaaS
Cloud Migration License Readiness
M&A Software License Preparedness
GrowthStone use a flexible staffing arrangement where key permanent staff with senior management run on project-by-project basis. Our management team is pretty versatile across Assurance, Advisory and Technology.
The senior staff are thus able to provide timelier value-added advice to clients in this category as opposed to the “vanilla” hierarchical pyramid gearing structure adopted traditionally and fits in well with our mantra of creating an “audit firm of the future”, where Artificial Intelligence and Analytics will become the norm.
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