Aletta Boshoff

Executive summary

Aletta is an Advisory Partner and National Leader of both IFRS & Corporate Reporting and Sustainability at BDO in Australia. With over 30 years' financial reporting and accounting experience, her expertise spans IFRS, financial accounting and reporting, carbon accounting, and sustainability.

Priding herself on her technical excellence, approachability, and practical problem-solving ability, Aletta applies her wealth of experience to real-world business situations, bringing her clients along every step of the journey. Recognising that every business decision has a financial consequence, she is dedicated to helping clients understand how she reaches recommendations so they can test her assumptions and make informed, strategic decisions. Having worked with for-profit and not-for-profit clients, Aletta understands the challenges boards and finance teams face.

Focusing on an organisation’s capacity to generate lasting value in a rapidly changing world—while managing associated risks and opportunities—led to her interest and subsequent leadership in BDO’s Sustainability practice. Aletta also drove the development of BDO in Australia’s first Sustainability Report in 2022, including measuring our carbon footprint.

She is committed to fresh, brave, and innovative thinking, demonstrated by her involvement in implementing BDO Lead (BDO’s IFRS 16 Technology Solution), and developing BDO’s Outsourced Lease Management Services.

Expertise

• Financial reporting and accounting
• International financial reporting standards (IFRS)
• BDO Lease Management Services (outsourced lease accounting services)
• BDO Lead Software-as-a-Service 
• Carbon accounting
• Sustainability reporting
• Sustainability strategy
• Australian accounting standards
• Learning and development
• Litigation support
• Expert witness

Qualifications and affiliations

• Master of Commerce (Accountancy)
• Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)
• Certificate in the Theory of Accountancy
• Bachelor of Accounting
• Fellow, CA ANZ

Professional engagements and activities

• Lecturing on financial accounting and reporting, auditing and assurance, and taxation at various Australian and South African universities
• Author of various financial reporting and accounting textbooks.