Boutique advisory, assurance and executive finance — delivered by a small, senior team.
KDV INC is a boutique advisory and assurance practice founded in 2019 and led by a Chartered Accountant and Registered Auditor. We are appointed where the work is complex, the stakes are high and the client needs senior judgement rather than volume: a fully outsourced finance unit, strategic finance direction, business rescue, board advisory, financial modelling and independent audit quality review. We also guide owner-managed businesses and entrepreneurs — overseeing their finances and growing them to funder-ready.
Founded. Director-led since day one.
Years' audit, advisory and executive experience
Registered auditor and public practitioner
Executive and board roles held for clients, incl. 8+ years as Head of Group Finance
Enterprises run through our outsourced finance function since inception
Micro enterprises run through our outsourced finance function since inception
Years of pre-issuance review for the AGSA
AGSA auditors trained in audit file quality
Of mandates signed off by the Managing Director
We do not compete on compliance volume. Our work is bespoke advisory, restructuring and technical review for clients whose situation does not fit a standard service line.
The Managing Director scopes, leads and signs off every mandate. Clients deal with the decision-maker, not an account manager.
Appointed by the Auditor-General of South Africa as a pre-issuance reviewer of audit files. The same rigour is applied to every board paper, model and memorandum we issue.
An executive group of qualified professionals oversees every mandate, with engagement resources deployed and scaled to the work — the efficiency of a small firm with the reach of a large one.
We act as a strategic finance partner: everything a traditional accounting firm delivers, run as your finance unit and directed at review, reporting and decision-making.
Full-function bookkeeping, management accounts, annual financial statements, payroll, VAT and tax compliance, statutory and CIPC administration — operated as your finance department.
CFO-level review of results, board and shareholder reporting, budgets, cash-flow management and KPIs. Head of Group Finance, CFO and interim CEO mandates.
Turnaround strategy, restructuring, forensic investigation, funder proposals and board reference memoranda for boards and business rescue practitioners.
Investment memoranda, cash-flow and cycle models, restructuring and funding models, company valuations for transactions and estates.
Independent review of audit files and working papers, pre-issuance reviews for the AGSA, technical opinions on accounting and audit matters.
PFMA, GRAP, procurement and compliance audit expertise; audit committee membership; governance and SAICA-accredited training.
Our experience spans regulated public entities and multi-industry private groups, which gives us a rare fluency in both PFMA and IFRS environments.
Sector knowledge is applied, not catalogued — we bring it into the boardroom, the model and the audit file.
The Managing Director is appointed, in her personal capacity, to the Auditor-General's panel of pre-issuance review specialists: independent quality review of completed audit files before the audit report is issued, against the Public Audit Act, PFMA/MFMA, Treasury Regulations and GRAP. Reviews are performed for the AGSA, not for the auditees.
Audit quality and file review training for all AGSA provincial offices and the national office (2024). Public-sector programmes with Enterprises University of Pretoria on AoPO, performance reporting and compliance (2015–2021): Interfront, Office of the Premier North West, RTMC and officials across departments and entities.
Private clients are not named; mandates are described by sector, scope and output. Public-record work is named. References available on request, with the client's consent.
Alongside the board and rescue team of an agricultural investment group: strategy pre-reads, investor-update reviews, exposure schedules, board whitepapers and a sub-group restructure — clear thinking when every decision carried weight.
A receivables-finance company in business rescue asked for the truth about suspected irregular transactions. We traced them and set out the findings in a board reference memorandum with evidence schedules the practitioners could rely on.
Student accommodation converting to residential letting: a conversion whitepaper, 20-year repayment models and a restructuring proposal that gave a senior lender and a provincial housing fund a credible way forward.
Pre-issuance reviews of completed audit files for the Auditor-General of South Africa since 2019 — national entities, regulators and a municipality — and audit-file-quality training for AGSA auditors at all provincial and national offices.
Group and tax structuring, strategic direction for growth and review of a business acquisition for a multi-brand creative and design collective — with outsourced finance on the owners’ client projects, so the founders stay on the work, not the books.
Group finance function on retainer across ±19 entities in agriculture, property and finance. We centralised the management of it all — one set of processes, one reporting rhythm, one view for the board — so the owner no longer carries every loose end alone, and can trust the numbers.
Karien is a Chartered Accountant and Registered Auditor with 16 years' experience across audit, advisory and executive management in the public and private sectors. She is a registered public practitioner and tax practitioner.
Through KDV INC she holds outsourced executive roles — Head of Group Finance, non-executive director, audit committee member and interim CEO — for diversified groups spanning financial services, property, manufacturing and agriculture, and advises boards and business rescue practitioners on restructuring, forensic review and funder negotiations. She serves on public-sector audit committees and is appointed by the Auditor-General of South Africa as a pre-issuance reviewer.
Before relocating to the Western Cape she was a director and engagement partner at RMS Chartered Accountants and an audit and technical manager at the Auditor-General of South Africa.
“I am passionate about seeing businesses on our continent build firm foundations — dreaming with brilliant entrepreneurs and then watching those dreams take flight. I want Africa to thrive and lead by example, applying global best practice and honouring God in the way we do it.”
A senior core with the reach of a much larger firm. The executive group sets the standard, reviews the work and signs off; engagement teams are drawn from a standing network of professionals and scaled to each mandate.
Public and private sector; audit, advisory, executive management
Independent review and technical advisory on major appointments, alongside the Managing Director
Group reporting, management accounts and financial operations
Financial operations, reporting and controls
Statutory compliance, governance and tax administration
Contracted for the period and hours each mandate needs, working under executive review.
Statutory, SARS and CIPC capacity added as the work demands.
Collaborating CA(SA) practices and associates brought in on major appointments and technical matters.
Business rescue, legal, valuation, forensic and IT specialists named to the mandate.
To provide a world-class service of excellence, built on each client's business needs and on ethical principles, in order to strengthen, develop and support the organisations we serve.
The Managing Director scopes every mandate with the decision-maker and itemises the work so the client selects what it needs.
Engagement resources are deployed and scaled to the work; the executive group reviews every output before it is issued.
The Managing Director signs off and presents to the board, audit committee or funder — and stays accountable for the outcome.
One team, many industries, and the kind of work most accountants wait a decade to touch. Full-time roles and a freelance professional network, for professionals with three or more years' experience.
