Authors:Madrodinov, NDate:2012For several decades equity-based compensation has been used as a tool to align the incentives of company executives and employees with those' of the company shareholders. For instance globally, during the 1990's, there was ... Read more
Authors:Siddle, RichardDate:2014The South African unit trust industry was found to display low levels of Active Share compared to international levels. A sample of unit trusts, representing approximately 58.2% of assets under management in the South ... Read more
Authors:Junor, WesleyDate:2014There is an on-going debate amongst economists as to whether or not markets are efficient. The efficient market hypothesis is predicated on the assumption that investors are rational. The growing body of research in ... Read more
Authors:Arens, Fanelo JamesDate:2014This study has a number of interrelated objectives that seek to understand and contextualize the Altman bankruptcy prediction model in the setting of the South African medical schemes over a ten year period (2002 to 2011). ... Read more
Authors:Noland, StuartDate:2015The shift from defined benefit to defined contribution plans has exposed pensioners to a number of new risks which the South African government has been encouraged to mitigate through the aggressive implementation of ... Read more
Authors:Montgomery, Lisa AnneDate:2015Traditionally, it has been widely accepted that current reinvestments leads to future growth, and hence that there exists a negative relationship between dividend payout ratios and subsequent earnings growth at both the ... Read more
Authors:Prüssing, TimDate:2015This study argues that the financing options available to PPPs in the South African financial market are limited and only few traditional financing solutions, such as commercial bank debt, are available to project developers. ... Read more
Authors:Graham, Kyle StephenDate:2015South Africa's electricity tariff determinations have been a matter of much public debate. This has been highlighted in popular media in South Africa, with above inflation increases in electricity tariffs allowed by the ... Read more
Authors:Davidson, DhanyalDate:2015This paper identifies the statistically significant determinants for audit fees in the South African market by regressing audit fees against a selected set of determinant variables. This study is not the first investigating ... Read more
Authors:Tsai, Betty M CDate:2008The airline Industry has been recognised as a high value industry. The market carrying over 2 billion passengers each year and occupied over 35% of global merchandise in trade by value.Studies have been conducted globally ... Read more