Licksman Accounting Services is a company that specializes in the provision of highly dependable professional services ranging from accounting, tax and auditing services.
It was established in the work of an escalation of lack of financial reporting, global economic crisis and the need for good corporate governance.
The company was founded by our director, Lodrick Luyolo Ngqongwa CA(SA), in the early 2000s. He was working at KPMG when he started LICKSMAN Accounting Services. He started the company as a side-hustle, a way to make some extra cash, and he was operating it on a part-time basis as he was employed elsewhere.
After 1,5 years of operation on a part-time basis he started noticing that NPOs, ECD’s and a couple of public schools in the West Rand were battling to get auditors and they were traveling to Johannesburg to get auditors. He was also approach by ECD committee in the West Rand to assist with auditing them annually (it was 13 ECD’s at that time). After his observation of the situation, it was then that he decided to leave his job and operate LICKSMAN on a full-time basis and to register the company.
The name LICKSMAN comes from the director’s old football nickname, Licks or Licksman, from when he was growing up in the township. Even to this day some people still refer to him as Licks and Licksman in his home township.