(South Africa) – Approach and objectivity matter when you need the service of an Accountant, and Bakani Ngulani is one with a simple approach and is always objective in solving accounting challenges or establishing systems for businesses. He is unconventional.
Bakani Ngulani is the founding director of BN Business Solutions, an accounting firm dedicated to serving Small and Medium Enterprises in South Africa. Ngulani has vast experience in accounting, taxation, consultancy and audit function of companies across various categories, including retail, mining, manufacturing, textile, consultancy and non-profit organisations.
At the age of 23; Bakani left employment as a chartered accountant articles clerk to open his own accounting firm BN Business Solutions. He has successfully grown the firm from a one-man bedroom office company to an organization with head offices in Corporate Park South Midrand. With a foot toward Namibia, BN Solutions is in major cities in South Africa, with offices in Johannesburg, Capetown, Durban, and Polokwane; all conceived and established by the leadership of Bakani Ngulani.
The Articled Beginnings
Bakani who was born in 1993 to a primary school educator and entrepreneur; studied O Level at John Tallach High School where he focused primarily in Science oriented subjects. At A Level he studied at Midlands Christian College and this time around studied arts with the ambition of being a lawyer. He passed both levels with distinctions!
His Articled career began straight after high school in 2012, where he joined PNA Chartered Accountants (Z), this being the inspirational job that triggered and established his passion providing “business solutions”; a vision to be fulfilled five years later. He then moved to South Africa two years later where he joined a local audit firm in Houghton.
The story was that, faced with the decision of which university and course to take, Bakani surprisingly joined an accounting firm, to serve as an Articles in chartered accounting clerk. Once his employment was secured, he enrolled with UNISA to study his BCompt Accounting Sciences specializing in Financial Accounting. Through this move, Bakani was able to gain working experience whilst studying towards his degree; a move he says catapulted him into maturity in the profession and placed him in a position it would have otherwise took him six years to reach.
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