Certificate of Membership
Two accredited professional designations:
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Professional Accountants (SA)
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Tax Practitioner
SAIPA PrivySeals may be automatically added to Annual Financial Statements and other statutory reports generated on CaseWare, Draftworx and other accounting software platforms.
Approximately 60,000 SAIPA PrivySeal viewed monthly (as at October 2020)
Key Outcomes:
Validation of professional status on key documentation, including Annual Financial Statements
Credentials were designed to signal trust.
But today they often exist as:
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PDFs
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static certificates
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isolated databases
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digital badges without authoritative verification
Verifying credentials can be slow, fragmented and vulnerable to misuse.
Institutions cannot always confirm whether credentials are authentic, current or issued by the correct authority.
Trust should be verifiable.
Credentials should not just be displayed.
They should be instantly confirmed against their source.
PrivySeal enables accreditation systems to operate as live verification networks rather than static records.

ABOUT PRIVYSEAL
Visible digital confidence in an instant
The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) have published details of their use of PrivySeal at https://www.ecsa.co.za/about-ecsa/privyseal/ - you can see their webpage below.
