The Falling Empire

it down with. By the door there’s this beautiful red small Boardroom fridge, I walked towards it and open the door. It’s fu

ice is just 50 meters away, I share an office with the 2 Accountants. A young lady by the name of Patricia 31 year

accountant to ensure that the company has a healthy cashflow and that suppliers and employees are paid on time and who gets paid first. In other words, financial risk assessments were her responsibility because he knows the important suppliers that are critical to

rely thinking out loud. She has been with our compa

ng space, his knowledge of the accounting principles pertaining to mining are very good. I would usually

to pension, is going to be about how his stay home wife is always overspending when they go shopping, despite the fact that they go once or twice a month since they stay

e entrepreneur and his son is still living in the apartment, he bought for him when he started tertiary 10 years ag

r first post-graduate qualification, she bought herself a new vehicle and returned the

took a sip, it was followed by another sip and in no time, the can was empty

It is my job to know what constitutes every single line of every report on our Financials. Numbers don’t

ny things were coming to mind. There are more questions I was asking, the wider the scope

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ck from here. One of the things on my to-do list was to p

ly chasing my own tail and secondly give me areas to zoom in on or people I need to pa

ious elements of the value chain, in our case. We have finance,

e is responsible for receiving money from cust

me and ensures that the correct employee

hat all our fleet and machinery are opera

er’s fleet complies to our mining regulations as well as ensuring that loads that are pi

ring that we produce enough coal t

ble for the administration of