BA LLB (University of Cape Town), M. Com. CTA CA (SA)

Topic: Planning and entity choices in the light of the new Companies Act.

The Companies Act distinguishes between two types of companies, namely profit and non-profit companies, with the former comprising public, private and state-owned companies. This paper presents a discussion of the options available, and prompts company directors to re-examine where they currently are in terms of their existing company structure and possibly to make some changes for the future.

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Senior Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Advocate of the High Court of South Africa.

Prof Geach specialises in taxation, corporate law, trusts, financial accounting and financial planning, and he is a business consultant and is also a non-executive director of Grindrod Limited. Prof Geach regularly presents seminars throughout South Africa on a wide variety of topics for a number of professional and business organisations.

He is author of 'Guide to the Close Corporations Act', 'Handbook for Executors, Trustees and Curators', 'Guide to the Companies Act', 'Capital Gains Tax in South Africa: The essential Guide', and further co-authored 'The Financial Advisers Development Series', 'South African Corporate Business Administration', 'The South African Financial Planning Handbook', 'Trusts: Law and Practice' and 'Companies and other business structures'.