Infiniti

SAAA’s comprehensive and intuitive CPD
solution for SAICA and IRBA members

All SAICA and IRBA members must ensure that that they undertake relevant Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities in order to comply with SAICA and IRBA’s CPD policies as required by the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB)’s approved International Education Standards 7, Continuing Professional Development (Revised).


Compliance with SAICA and IRBA’s CPD policies sometimes feels overwhelming and feels like an additional administrative burden when you realize you must


  1. identify your developmental needs in line with the competencies linked to your career path (taking into consideration your current and future roles);
  2. identify relevant CPD activities to address your developmental needs;
  3. schedule your CPD activities;
  4. attend CPD activities;
  5. reflect on each completed CPD activity; and
  6. annually, reflect on all three ethical competencies.


In order to assist our client base, we at SAAA, have developed a comprehensive and intuitive CPD solution that complies with all SAICA and IRBA’s requirements and provides you with a detailed CPD reflective plan at the push of a button.

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Benefits of Using Infiniti

Comprehensive

  1. SAICA compliant
  2. IRBA compliant
  3. Self assessment against all SAICA prescribed competencies for your elected careerpath
  4. Self assessment against SAICA's prescribed proficiency levels for your career path's competencies
  5. Compliant CPD reflective plan

Intuitive

  1. A dashboard report is available which lists all your developmental needs (based upon your completed self assessment)
  2. A list of available CPD activities are recommended for each careerpath's prescribed competencies

Learning prompts

  1. Alerts and reminders are sent for live webinars, courses, panel discussions etc that you have listed in your CPD reflective plan

Reflection made easy

  1. Continuous reflection per CPD activity is easy to complete with the prompts we provide
  2. Annual compulsory ethics reflection is covered with the questions we provide
  3. Annual overall reflection on your completed CPD activities for the year is simple and effective


Safe and secure

  1. Your CPD reflective plan is stored safely and securely in the Cloud
  2. Easily accessable from all your devices, anywhere, anytime

Userfriendly

  1. Step by step guidance is provided to compile your comprehensive CPD reflective plan

Stress free monitoring

  1. Should you be selected for montoring by SAICA or IRBA, you can submit your comprehensive and compliant CPD reflective plan to them at the push of a button

Affordable

  1. A minimal annual fee is payable
  2. All of our subscription packages includes Infiniti for free
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Infiniti’s simple 3 phase approach

Phase 1 – Planning

During this phase you will:

  1. Select your current career path and career level;
  2. Select your future career path and career level;
  3. Perform a self assessment against SAICA’s predefined competencies and proficiency levels for your selected career path; and
  4. Identify your developmental needs (we provide a dashboard to assist you in this regard).

Phase 2 - Action

During this phase you will:

  1. Identify CPD activities that address your developmental needs (we provide you with a list of possible courses per developmental need and provide the flexibility to include CPD activities you might complete with other service providers etc );
  2. Schedule and attend/ complete the CPD activity over the course of the year; and
  3. Include additional CPD activities that you attended due to, amongst other, compulsory employer training, changes in laws, regulations, standards and technology, completed CPD activities that did not address your need etc.

Phase 3 – Reflect

Reflection is completed on a continuous basis:

  1. As and when you complete CPD activities, you will reflect on the effectiveness of the specific activity  and identify additional or alternative developmental needs (where applicable);
  2. Annually, you will reflect on ethical aspects (we provide relevant questions to assist you in this regard); andAnnually you will reflect on the overall effectiveness of your CPD compliance during the year (we provide relevant questions to assist you in this regard).

Meet your Brand Ambassador

Annelien Feldtmann CA(SA) ; MCom (Taxation) and Neuro-Coach

Annelien is a Chartered Accountant (SA) with more than 20 years of experience in the public and private sector. She is deeply passionate about people development and has been actively involved in various roles to assist individuals to become the professionals they dream to be. These roles include the following:

  1. She was a South-African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) Reviewer and is a registered assessor with in depth knowledge of the SAICA Competency Framework and learnership requirements (such as the generic training plans and detailed assessment process);
  2. She is the chairperson of the Assessment Committee (which is responsible for the final qualification examination) of the South African Institute of Taxation (SAIT) and also a SAIT assessor (reviewing the compliance with the learnership requirements and logbook compliance);
  3. She was a SAICA Training Officer and later the Senior Manager – Trainee Auditor Scheme who managed the three auditing and accounting learnerships (SAICA; SAIGA and ACCA) within the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) (1 300 learners annually spread across the 9 provinces) and has in-depth knowledge of the practical challenges, roles and responsibilities of employers and trainees;
  4. She and her team developed the accelerated learning curriculum that aligned to the approved competency framework for the African Professionalization Initiative for AFROSAI-E;
  5. She has been involved in distance learning institutions and even compiled the curriculum transformation competency framework for the College of Accounting Sciences at the University of South-Africa (UNISA);
  6. She has developed learning material for the National Treasury of South Africa;
  7. She assisted one of SAICA’s preferred electronic assessment providers in enhancing their service offering;
  8. She has developed a competency framework for a training company who provides services to the accounting and auditing sector;
  9. She managed a UK based professional development company as well as a South-African based study support organisation; and
  10. She  is a qualified Executive, Business and Career Neuro-Coach (clients in the UK and South-Africa) and have also provided mentorship to dynamic females in the public sector in the USA as well as Jamaica.
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Should you require more information, please phone us on 010 593 0466 or send us an e-mail on [email protected].

This platform was developed by The SA Accounting Academy in association with Tangent Solutions.

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