Build Your Small Business with Thabani Zulu’s Risk and Reward

About the author

Successful businessman Thabani Zulu qualified as a Chartered Accountant at the University of KwaZulu Natal. After stints at KPMG, Mercedes Benz and Unilever SA, mainly as Training Manager, he started his own highly successful consulting business, Thabani Zulu and Company. In his first book, he shares the lessons and insights to ensure that new busines ses meet with equal success. Thabani Zulu has a passion for sharing knowledge and putting others on the road to success and he sponsors a number of accountancy students at various schools and Universities.
 
About the Book

Risk and Reward is a practical South African guide to making your small company work by avoiding common risks. With its easy-to-read, step-by-step presentation, this book is an invaluable tool for budding business people. It equips you to make informed decisions, ensuring the long-term success of your small enterprise.

The author, a chartered accountant who has worked in both the corporate and government sectors before setting up his own business consulting company, is well acquainted with the challenges of South Africa’s business environment. He has a passion for helping fellow South Africans succeed. Grounded in South African legislation, culture and business language, the advice is practical and relevant, with examples drawn from the real-life experience. It includes deciding what business to venture into, building a business model, choosing partners, financing your business, buying an existing business, business plans, budgets, product costing, marketing, employing people, financial administration, managing suppliers, and taxation. A distinctive feature of the book is the author’s reminder at the outset that business should be about a purpose bigger than oneself, with a focus on sustainable growth and prosperity for the good of society. Defining “success” in more than material terms is also likely to lead to success in business.