Ruanda Oberholzer

Professor, Financial Accounting and Financial Accounting at SP Jain School of Global Management

Biography

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Taxation
  • Management Accounting

SUBJECTS TAUGHT/STUDENT PROJECT MENTOR

  • Taxation
  • Financial Accounting
  • Management Accounting
  • Financial Management
  • Finance Leadership Coaching

Education

  • DCOM ACCOUNTING SCIENCE University of Pretoria South Africa (1991 — 2005)
  • Chartered Accountant The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (1995 — 1998)
  • Grade 12 High School General Hertzog (1986 — 1990)

Companies

  • Adjunct Faculty Rochester Institute of Technology (2022)
  • Professor SP Jain School of Global Management - Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore & Sydney (2020)
  • Finance Leadership facilitator and coach in association with Doug Lambert Doug Lambert Executive Coaching (2020)
  • Associate Professor University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria (2000)
  • Visiting Associate Professor Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business (2004 — 2004)
  • Finance Manager Advanced Technologies and Engineering (Pty) Ltd (1998 — 2000)
  • Audit Manager PwC (1997 — 1998)
  • Tax Consultant and Trainee Accountant Price Waterhousecoopers (1995 — 1997)

PUBLICATIONS

  • OBERHOLZER, R. and DE SWARDT, R. (2003). Domestic workers – An employer's duties, Tax Planning, (17)(6), p147-149.
  • OBERHOLZER, R. and WILCOCKS, J.S. (2004). The effect of new tax legislation regarding foreign exchange transactions on taxpayers, SA Journal of Accounting Research, (18)(1), p135-170.
  • OBERHOLZER, R. (2004). The tax deductibility of donations, with specific reference to donations of property made in kind to public benefit organisations, Southern African Business Review, (8)(3), p68-75.
  • OBERHOLZER, R. (2005). A survey of the perceptions of previously disadvantaged South Africans on taxation, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, (16)(2005), p249-275.
  • OBERHOLZER, R. (2005). Donations in kind – Inequitable consequences. Tax Planning, (19), p98-101.
  • OBERHOLZER, R. (2005). Donations in kind – A possible response. Tax Planning, (19), p124-126.
  • DE SWARDT RD, OBERHOLZER R (2006) Digitised products: How compliant is South African value-added tax? Meditari: Accountancy Research, 14, 1, pp 15-28.
  • OBERHOLZER R, NEL M (2006) The Road to an improved tax curriculum in South African schools. Education as Change, 10, 1, July, pp 105-120.
  • OBERHOLZER R, and BEER J (2006) A critical analysis of the concept of an independent contractor in South Africa. De Jure, 39, 3, p664.
  • OBERHOLZER R (2007) A Note: Study abroad programs: a potential key to successful accounting and management education in a global world. SA Journal of Accounting Research, (21)(1), p127-146.
  • OBERHOLZER, R. (2007) The hand that rocks the cradle – the African youth's perceptions on taxation. Accounting Business and the Public Interest, (6)1.
  • OBERHOLZER R, DE KOCK D and WALKER C (2008) Routes of persuasion utilized in the advertising appeals of the South African Revenue Services: an exploratory study among taxpayers in Gauteng, South Africa. SABR, Volume 12 Number 2, August 2008.
  • OBERHOLZER, R. (2008) Attitudes of South African Taxpayers towards Taxation: a pilot study. Accounting Business and the Public Interest, (7)1.
  • COETZEE, S., OBERHOLZER, R. (2009) The tax knowledge of South African trainee accountants: A survey of training officers' in public practice perceptions. Accounting Education, 18 (Issue 4-5), p421-441.
  • BELING B, COETZEE S and OBERHOLZER R (2009) Tax topics a trainee chartered accountant should be taught: A survey of perceptions in and outside of public practice. Meditari, 17(1), p15-31.
  • OBERHOLZER, R. and STACK, E.S. (2009) Perceptions of taxation: a comparative study if different individual taxpayers in South Africa. Journal of Public Administration, 44(3.1), p 737-755.
  • COETZEE, S., OBERHOLZER, R. (2009) South African Secondary School Teachers' Perception of the Accounting Professions. Accounting Education, 19(5), p457-472.
  • Various other publications in non-refereed journals and accounting magazines.

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