Browsing by Subject "financial instruments"

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    Innovative Finance Week 4 Video 10 - Case studies discovering opportunities-
    (2019) Phiri, Lelemba
    This video is on case studies that are focused on finding opportunities. The first case study is of a Malawian initiative. The growth of the business and research process is discussed. Partnerships with other businesses are also discussed. The next case study is on early childhood development. Innovation in the space in the form of financial instruments is discussed. The different types of partnerships are also discussed. The next case study discusses risk perception amongst investors. It goes into how they worked on being appealing to potential investors whilst serving poorer people. It then discusses how they used their network, prior experiences and partnerships to raise capital by meeting the objectives of potential funders. The next case study talks about the work done with Bertha center on social impact bonds. They discuss the difficulties surrounding procurement processes. They also touch on social purpose vehicles (SPV). The next case study is for peer to peer learning platform. It discusses their partnerships and objectives and provides examples of work they have done already and the communities they are involved with. This is video 10/11 in week 4 of the Innovative Finance: Hacking Finance to Change the World course.
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    Knowledge in Accounting: Using a threshold concept lens to identify knowledge of financial instruments in an Accounting course, as experienced by students at a South African university
    (2020) Bardien, Mariam; Lubbe, Ilse
    This qualitative research aims to identify the threshold concepts in financial instruments using Meyer and Land's Threshold Concept Framework (2005) and applies the dimension of Semantics and Legitimation Code Theory (Maton, 2014) to analyse whether semantic gravity and semantic density are stronger or weaker in the threshold concepts. The analysis points to five threshold concepts in the financial instruments module. It further aims to explore whether African, Coloured and Indian students' exposure to these threshold concepts results in troublesome knowledge and/or transformation in understanding and thinking in a second-year Accounting course at a South African university. Triangulation is used to confirm the authenticity and consistency of the data emerging from the identification of the threshold concepts. Using Semantics, this research illustrates that the five threshold concepts possess weaker semantic gravity due to the abstract nature of the threshold concepts and stronger semantic density is present due to the complex and dense terminology inherent in financial instruments. Evidence from a general survey, interviews and summative assessments conducted with students registered for an Accounting course shows that exposure to the threshold concepts resulted in troublesome knowledge and/or transformed understanding. Identifying the threshold concepts could make specialised Accounting knowledge more explicit to students and exploring the knowledge experienced as troublesome and the transformed understanding experienced provides room for debate around pedagogy and curriculum reform.