{"id":10569,"date":"2022-03-14T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T13:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casewareafrica.com\/cm\/success-stories\/vodacome-testimonial\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:46:28","slug":"vodacome-testimonial","status":"publish","type":"success-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.casewareafrica.com\/cm\/success-stories\/vodacome-testimonial\/","title":{"rendered":"Caseware tailors financial reporting solution for Vodacom South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Vodacom South Africa has been using Caseware for some years \u2013 prior to my joining the company in 2018. I believe that before this, the team used Excel, which was time consuming \u2013 particularly when it came to formatting. <strong>Wesley Govender<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caseware Working Papers provides seamless imports of trial balance or general ledger details from over 60 accounting packages, Excel, CSV and ASCII. Govender says what he finds particularly beneficial are automated mapping and lead sheets and the ability to reconcile the trial balance back to the ledger systems with full adjusting journal entry traceability and reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVodacom South Africa has been using Caseware for some years \u2013 prior to my joining the company in 2018. I believe that before this, the team used Excel, which was time consuming \u2013 particularly when it came to formatting,\u201d he says. \u201cMapping makes life quite easy, and we appreciate the ability to make manual adjustments, write notes and see the whole audit trail of any adjustments or notes \u2013 even years later.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of a multinational group, Vodacom South Africa must align with the group\u2019s tailored and standardised financial reporting standards and templates, Govender says. \u201cOver the years, our financials have become quite tailored. Caseware specialists came to Vodacom and tailored the system for us to meet the group\u2019s requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vodacom South Africa also uses Caseware\u2019s Corporate Statutory Reporting Template (Pty) IFRS, Financial Statements for Trusts \u2013 SME, and SmartSync.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vodacom Group is a leading African connectivity and financial services company serving 130 million customers and delivering services including telecommunications, IT, digital and financial services. &nbsp;&nbsp;Vodafone Group Plc (Vodafone) \u2013 one of the world\u2019s largest communications companies in terms of revenue \u2013 has a 60.5% shareholding in Vodacom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wesley Govender CA (SA), Senior IFRS &amp; Governance Specialist at Vodacom South Africa, says he and his team use Caseware Working Papers (including Connector) as a convenient single tool to prepare annual financial statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom South Africa has been using Caseware for some years \u2013 prior to my joining the company in 2018. I believe that before this, the team used Excel, which was time consuming \u2013 particularly when it came to formatting. Wesley Govender Caseware Working Papers provides seamless imports of trial balance or general ledger details from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7118,"template":"","class_list":["post-10569","success-stories","type-success-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casewareafrica.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success-stories\/10569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casewareafrica.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casewareafrica.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/success-stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casewareafrica.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casewareafrica.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}