Michael Reynolds

Michael Reynolds is the partner-in-charge of the CMA East Rand office. He has twenty three years’ experience in audit, accounting and advisory work for a wide range of businesses, five years’ experience at the South African Revenue Services (SARS), four years’ experience as the largest shareholder and director of a JSE listed company and three years’ experience as chief financial officer of subsidiaries of blue chip JSE and NYSE listed companies.

He studied at Wits University on scholarships from Barlow Rand, Deloitte and the Human Sciences Research Council and qualified as a chartered accountant after completing his articles at Deloitte in 1986.Thereafter, he joined SARS ending his career there after five years as a deputy director for Inland Revenue Services. Whilst employed at SARS he also completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and politics. He left SARS to join Colgate Palmolive as tax and treasury manager and followed this with six years in public audit practice with a partner at Burn Reynolds & Co.

Michael and two partners acquired a client in the mid 1990’s, sold their practice and listed the client company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). After acquisition by another JSE listed entity a few years thereafter, he served as financial director of that company before moving into broader commerce at blue chip companies. He ended his career in commerce as CFO for RMB Properties and moved back into his own audit and advisory practice, MWRK Accountants & Auditors Inc., thirteen years ago, building it into a firm with twenty five staff and a wide range of clients which included the Acsion group for 12 years before its listing on the JSE. During that time Michael has completed further qualifications in BEE verification and IFRS and has completed all examinations for his Master’s degree in Commerce as a prelude to preparing his thesis to finish the degree in the near future.

The firm Michael founded, MWRK Accountants & Auditors Inc. merged with a national firm, Certified Master Auditors Inc. (CMA) in 2017 who are now the duly appointed company secretaries for Acsion Limited.