EVERY RULE YOU WORK UNDER
IS CHANGING AT ONCE
Your licence to practise. Company law. Tax. Audit standards. AI in your workflow. All of it, this year.
The people making those changes are all in one room on 13 August. And they are taking questions.
The Q&A panels are live and unscripted. There is no recording of the question you did not ask.
31 October. Every day you wait is a client you did not call.
12 August. Eleven weeks before the deadline. Enough time to work the list.
75 years replaced. Registration, practising certificates, criminal liability for practising without one.
Minister of Finance, Auditor-General, BIPA, NSX, OPM, ECB, Competition Commission, FNB, Deloitte. Three live Q&A panels.
One tabled. One running. One still open.
No vague talk about a changing landscape. Here is exactly where each thing sits, and what it means for you this year.
The AARA Bill
In Parliament now. Replaces the 1951 Act. Registration, practising certificates, and accredited body membership become the condition of trading — for accounting and tax work.
The Tax Amnesty
Running now. Interest and penalties written off if the capital is settled. The Minister has confirmed it will not be extended again. Eleven weeks after this conference.
The Corporate Laws Bill
Published for comment in December 2025. Not yet before Parliament. Business rescue, solvency tests, auditor rotation, CCs re-enacted as Closely Held Companies. CIBA has already filed its submission.
Three sessions that change what you can charge
Every clause is live. Every question is on the record.
No registration. No practice. No income.
Nobody will pay you to explain AARA to them. That is not the point. The point is that without registration you cannot legally charge a fee in Namibia — and registration means belonging to an accredited professional body. Your designation stops being a badge. It becomes your licence to trade.
Hon. Erica Shafudah tabled this Bill in June. In August she takes your questions on it.
- Which registration category you and your staff fall into
- Why tax work is now inside the perimeter
- What happens if your professional body is not accredited
- What your firm file needs to survive an inspection
You deal with BIPA every week. Now hear it from the top.
BIPA's CEO on how the Authority is running, what the new technology changes for your filings, and exactly where the Corporate Laws Bill has got to. CIBA sent its submission to her office in December. This is where you hear what happened to it.
- BIPA operations and turnaround — what is actually improving
- New systems and digital filing: what changes at your desk
- Beneficial ownership registers — what BIPA expects to see
- Bill progress: business rescue, solvency tests, auditor rotation, CCs as Closely Held Companies
11 weeks. Then the penalties come back.
Interest and penalties written off if the capital is settled by 31 October. Your clients sitting on arrears do not know this. You will — eleven weeks before the door shuts. Save a client a penalty and you have that client for life.
Deloitte's tax director and senior tax manager. Ninety minutes of certainty.
- Which clients to phone on Monday
- What is actually law versus what is only a budget announcement
- The new Tax Court, and what it means when NamRA says no
- VAT e-invoicing — what breaks in your client's till
Reasons not to come — and why they don't hold
I can't take three days out of the practice.
Then take one. Day 2 alone gets you the Minister, BIPA, the Auditor-General and 6 CPD units. But be honest about what happens if you skip Day 3: you go home with the news and no plan, same as everyone else in the room.
R2,100 is a lot right now.
One amnesty clean-up. One solvency engagement. One new client from the golf day. Any one of those covers the full three days — and it is a deductible business expense.
I'll just watch the recording.
The recording gives you the sessions. It does not give you the three live Q&A panels, the Minister answering your question on the record, or the person sitting next to you who sends you work in November.
I'll wait until the laws actually pass.
When they pass, you will be doing the work, not learning it. And the Corporate Laws Bill is still a draft — this is the last window where what you say about it can still change it.
I'm not in Windhoek.
Online attendance for Day 2 gets you the sessions and the CPD. If you can travel, come for the golf day — the referrals are worth the flight on their own.
This is for the big firms.
The opposite. Big firms have compliance departments to read Bills for them. You are the compliance department. This conference exists for practices of one to five people.
Out of reasons? Good. Register before your diary fills up.
REGISTER NOW — R2,100Four things you can charge for
Registration keeps you trading. These are how you grow while everyone else is still waiting for the gazette.
A statutory role Namibia has never had.
If the Bill passes as drafted: appointment, moratorium, rescue plan, Business Rescue Fund. First movers set the fee.
Every dividend. Every year.
Proposed: every dividend authorised against an equity solvency test. CIBA has asked that a professional body member can do the valuation and the board can rely on it as a defence.
The easiest sell you will get all year.
Live right now. Hard deadline, obvious value. "I can get your penalties written off if we act before 31 October."
Recurring. Annual. Every client.
Namibia left the FATF grey list in June. Nobody wants to go back. Recurring product, annual fee, every client on your book.
Four fee lines. One conference. Book it, expense it, earn it back on the first client.
Be the one who knew first
There are two kinds of accountant in a year like this.
The first gets phoned by a panicking client in October and starts Googling.
The second phoned that client in August, explained it plainly, and attached a quote.
Clients do not pay extra for compliance. They pay extra for certainty. This is where you get it.
REGISTER NOWGeneralists compete on price. Specialists don't.
Pick two sectors and own them. Here is where the Namibian money, and the Namibian risk, actually sits.
Mining & Energy Services
Offshore money pulling contractors in. New entities, JVs, foreign shareholders.
Sell: structuring and BO registers.
Fishing
Quota structures, new levies, export buyers demanding data. A slip here is not a fine, it is a lost quota.
Sell: quota-entity compliance.
Construction
Retentions and WIP. The new IFRS for SMEs revenue model bites 1 January 2027 and contractors feel it first.
Sell: revenue transition projects.
Retail & Hospitality
VAT e-invoicing will wire the till into ITAS. Cash-heavy operators get exposed first.
Sell: e-invoicing readiness.
Agriculture
Zero-rating on input imports, ring-fenced farming trades, clients who file late.
Sell: farming tax reviews.
Meet them. Hear it. Sell it.
Day 1 you meet the people who send you work. Day 2 you hear it from the people who write the rules. Day 3 you build the practice that charges for it.
Work in Namibia comes from people, not adverts. Regulators, bankers, sponsors and practice owners. Same course, same fourballs, one afternoon. No lanyard queue, no panel, no PowerPoint. One afternoon on the course beats six months of emails.
| 10:00 | Arrival Registration & Welcome |
| 10:00 – 17:00 | Golf 18 Holes · Windhoek Country Club Resort Green fees, cart, halfway house refreshments · Fourballs |
| 17:00 | Evening Prize-Giving Ceremony & Networking Function |
They are not sending a spokesperson. The Minister of Finance. The Auditor-General. The CEO of BIPA. The CEO of the NSX. Three open Q&A panels where you can put a question on the record.
| 07:30 – 08:30 | Arrival Registration & Welcome Coffee |
| 08:30 – 08:40 | Opening MC Opening Remarks & Namibian National Anthem Faith Ngwenya — Head of Education, CIBA |
| 08:40 – 09:00 | Address Message from the CEO Nicolaas van Wyk — CEO, CIBA |
| 09:05 – 09:45 | Keynote The End of Safe Compliance Dr Julius Kandjeke — Auditor-General of Namibia, Office of the Auditor-General |
| 09:45 – 10:05 | Session 1 Namibia at a Crossroads: Capital, Control & Consequence Nesdah de Jongh — Head of SME / SME Banking Executive, FNB Namibia |
| 10:05 – 10:25 | Panel 1 + Q&A When capital moves fast, who carries responsibility for defensible decisions? Moderator: Faith Ngwenya (CIBA) · Panellists: Nesdah de Jongh (FNB Namibia), Dr Julius Kandjeke (OAG), Namibian Competition Commission |
| 10:25 – 10:35 | Sponsor Sage |
| 10:35 – 11:00 | Break Coffee Break |
| 11:05 – 11:25 | Session 2 Regulation Is No Longer Stable. So Why Are Your Decisions? Gladice Pickering — Executive Director, Office of the Prime Minister |
| 11:25 – 11:45 | Session 3 What's Coming, And Why It Will Change How You Work Ainna Vilengi Kaundu — CEO, Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA) |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | Session 4 Risk Is Not the Enemy. Fear Is. Katherine Amakali — Attorney, Electricity Control Board |
| 12:05 – 12:25 | Session 5 · Ministerial Briefing AARA: The New Rules of the Namibian Accounting Profession Honourable Erica Shafudah — Minister of Finance, Republic of Namibia · What every practitioner needs to know before the bill is law. |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Panel 2 + Q&A When the Rules Lag Reality Moderator: Faith Ngwenya (CIBA) · Panellists: Erica Shafudah (Finance), Gladice Pickering (OPM), Ainna Kaundu (BIPA), Katherine Amakali (ECB) |
| 13:00 – 13:10 | Sponsor DataGrows |
| 13:10 – 14:10 | Break Lunch & Networking |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Session 6 AI Won't Replace You, But It Will Expose You Shane Minnie — AI Governance & Delivery Specialist, Guardrail Labs |
| 14:35 – 14:55 | Session 7 The Boardroom Has Changed — Have You? Tiaan Bazuin — CEO, Namibia Securities Exchange |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Panel 3 + Q&A Governance When AI Accelerates Decisions Moderator: Faith Ngwenya (CIBA) · Panellists: Chisom Obiudo (Ministry of Justice), Shane Minnie (Guardrail Labs), Tiaan Bazuin (NSX) |
| 15:25 – 15:35 | Sponsor DraftWorx |
| 15:35 – 15:50 | Break Coffee Break |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Session 8 Tax in the New Namibia: Reforms, Risks, and the Accountant's Strategic Role Gerda Brand & Layha Shwapa — Tax Director & Senior Tax Manager, Deloitte Namibia |
| 16:15 – 16:35 | Session 9 Ethics Without Apology Lehana Nel — Namibia Representative, CIBA |
| 16:40 – 16:50 | Sponsor Smart Practice |
| 16:55 – 17:15 | Closing From Professional to Strategic Operator Nicolaas van Wyk — CEO, CIBA |
| 17:15 – 17:45 | Refresh Delegates Refresh |
18:00 – 20:00 · CIBA Social Spit Braai Dinner
Networking with regulators, sponsors, fellow delegates and CIBA leadership.
Included in the Full Package and Conference ticket.
Theme: Master the Rules. Control the Game.
From rule change to revenue.
Thursday you find out what changed. Friday you decide what you charge for it. Not a lecture. You will work. Bring a laptop and your client list.
Registration Readiness Checklist
AARA registration categories for every person in your firm. Practising certificates. Why tax work is inside the net — and why accredited body membership is now your licence, not a badge.
Sector Selection Matrix
Score mining services, fishing, construction, retail, tourism and agriculture against your own client base. Leave with two you can credibly own.
Service Productisation Canvas
Build four packages you can sell in September. Business rescue readiness, solvency tests, amnesty clean-ups, BO and AML files. Each with a name, a scope, a price and a delivery checklist.
Fee Ladder & Client Scripts
Fixed fees without scope creep. Raising fees on existing clients. Two scripts written and rehearsed at your table, including the 31 October amnesty call.
90-Day Pipeline Plan
Banks, BIPA agents, lawyers, brokers, sector associations. The compliance calendar as a prospecting calendar. Four packages, four campaigns.
Client Transition Scoping Sheet
IFRS for SMEs: third edition, 1 January 2027, retrospective. New revenue model. Which clients are hit, why contractors feel it first, and what the transition engagement is worth.
Practice Operating Plan
Engagement letters that kill scope creep. Capacity and hiring. ITAS and e-invoicing readiness. Every table leaves with three dated commitments.
The CIBA Namibia Practice Growth Pack
Seven completed worksheets. Printed folder plus editable digital set. Twenty named prospects and four priced services. Two of them convert and the year pays for itself.
Is this you?
Two or more? Then the only question left is which ticket.
Three days, twelve speakers, six CPD units, R2,100.
REGISTER NOWPick your ticket
One day or all three. The Full Package is the cheapest way in — golf, conference, braai and the Practice Growth Day.
| Ticket | What you get | Price | |
Full Package Best value Golf Day + Conference + Spit Braai + Practice Growth Day |
All three days · 6 CPD units · Everything included | R2,100 |
REGISTER |
Conference only — in person |
Day 2 + Spit Braai · 6 CPD units | R1,800 |
BOOK |
Practice Growth Day only |
Day 3 + the Practice Growth Pack | R1,200 |
BOOK |
Golf Day only |
Day 1 · green fees, cart, refreshments, prize-giving | R1,100 |
BOOK |
Golf Fourball |
Four entries. Bring three clients. Cheaper than lunch, better than a brochure. | R4,000 |
BOOK |
Without a reason to book today, most people book in the last ten days — or not at all.
TWELVE PEOPLE WHO SET THE RULES.
ONE ROOM. ONE DAY.
One law tabled. One deadline running. One Bill you can still change. Three days in Windhoek, and a plan you can sell in September.
REGISTER NOW — R2,100MASTER THE RULES. CONTROL THE GAME.
