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The financial services sector is particularly important because it is the largest employer of people with financial management, accounting, and auditing skills. In 2007 about 118 000 people worked in the sector.

Fasset is the SETA for Finance, Accounting, Management Consulting and other Financial Services in South Africa. The Financial and Accounting Services Sector refers to the organisations served by Fasset.

 

This sector includes: investment entities and trusts and company secretary services; stockbroking and financial markets; financial development organisations; accounting, bookkeeping, auditing and tax
services; business and management consulting services; the South African Revenue Service; the national and provincial treasuries; and other activities auxiliary to financial intermediation, such as debt collection.

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