It doesn't have to be an accountant. It's not a skill - it's a responsibility
Whoooa.....I suddenly saw myself on the street corner with a cardboard sign saying....ex accountant - not skilled and no longer needed but very responsible.

OK - you need a QUALIFIED SKILLED person called an Accounting Officer.

The Close Corporations act says

Section 60.
Qualifications of accounting officers
(1)
No person shall be appointed as or hold the office of an accounting
officer of a corporation, unless he is a member of a recognized
profession which
(a) as a condition for membership, requires its members to have
passed examinations in accounting and related fields of study
which in the opinion of the Minister would qualify such
members to......

4)
(a) A corporation may appoint as its accounting officer -
(i) any person who is a member of a recognised profession
listed in a notice referred to in subsection (2);
(ii) a firm as defined in section 1 of the Public Accountants’
and Auditors’ Act, 1991 (Act No. 80 of 1991);
(iii) any other firm, if each partner in the firm is qualified to be
so appointed; or
(iv) any other corporation, if each member of such
corporation is qualified to be so appointed.

Then section 62 - sets out the duties of the accounting officer which includes setting members, managers and people in charge straight on who is really in charge and reminding them of their duties to know important parts of acts especially the parts of who's actually in charge......

Does a cc really need one now?
mmmmmm.......Dave