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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Financial Management) by Title
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Buitendag, Johan; Prof D G Gouws
(University of Pretoria, 2013-07-30)
The importance of relationships can be interpreted on a macro scale and understood as the link between any two or more variables or entities and how they affect each other. Determining this can be a very extensive task, ...
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Dube, Tapiwa
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The question of whether ownership matters remains an important one in corporate financial policy. The types of owners of the means of production in an economy and the extent to which ownership is concentrated or diffused ...
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Van der Colff, Francois
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
As a prerequisite for an informed decision, a company’s financial results are undoubtedly one of the most important aspects to be considered in a financial distress prediction model. To rely purely on financial results for ...
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Musvoto, Saratiel Wedzerai
(University of Pretoria, 2009-04-20)
For many years, accounting discourse has been concerned with the measurement of attributes of accounting events. The concept of measurement forms one of the central pillars on which the preparation of financial statements ...
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Jansen van Vuuren, Liesel
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
In 2008, the world experienced a global financial crisis, highlighting concerns over a lighttouch
financial regulatory system such as currently used in South Africa. Even though the
South African financial system ...
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Enslin, Zacharias
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
In their traditional role as ‘bean-counters’, ‘scorekeepers’ and ‘controllers’, management accountants were frequently excluded from operational decision-making. Criticism by operational managers about management accountants’ ...
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Marais, Desmond Dawid
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
In behavioural finance, a substantial body of work exists about what motivates a decision-maker at the moment of choice. Yet what is often overlooked is that there is a whole lengthy part of the decision-making process ...
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Kok, Gerrit S.
(University of Pretoria, 2020-09-16)
The thesis investigated the relationship between multiple board characteristics and five performance and risk-management indicators. Following criticism against testing for linear relationships when it comes to corporate ...
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Seligmann, Joanne
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
The importance of intellectual capital and the management of this resource is increasingly important to value creation owing to the shift from a product-based economy to a knowledge-based economy. The board of directors ...
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Sibanda, Thabani
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
The main focus of this study is the analysis of the capital budgeting practices and techniques implemented by companies listed on the Alternative Exchange (Alt X) of the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE). Dayananda, ...
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Mutshutshu, Tendani
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
No abstract available
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Van der Colff, Francois
(University of Pretoria, 2012-12-13)
This study had a two-fold purpose. Firstly, to establish whether a model utilising a number of non-financial variables in conjunction with a model based on financial variables is able to provide a more accurate company ...
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Dowelani, Musimuni
(University of Pretoria, 2012-12-13)
The study’s main concern was the extent to which the price earnings (P/E) valuation model and constant growth dividend discount valuation model (DDM) can estimate the intrinsic value of a share. The context within which ...
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Cronje, C.J. (Christo Johannes)
(University of Pretoria, 2008-02-18)
The main goal of this thesis was to obtain an understanding of the way in which accounting practices that are constantly in transition generate the information that is disclosed in corporate annual reports (CARS). The study ...
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Tshipa, Johannes (Jonty)
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
In the past two decades, corporate governance has received much attention from academics, investors and managers as well as from policymakers. This is mainly because of scandals and failures that have led to companies in ...
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Nkomani, Sibusiso
(University of Pretoria, 2013-07-30)
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a much debated and ever changing topic. From a South African context, one of the most recent means of measuring CSR has been through the use of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) ...
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Reyers, Michelle
(University of Pretoria, 2009-09-07)
Climate change is increasingly acknowledged as one of the greatest threats facing humanity in the 21st century. Given the enormity of the potential impact of global warming, worldwide collective action from all sectors of ...
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Mabalane, Moira Darby
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
The relationship between an individual s financial risk tolerance (FRT) level and
demographic factors has been widely researched because of the importance of
determining an individual s risk profile. The process by which ...
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Geyser, J.M. (Judith Mariette)
(University of Pretoria, 2006-07-24)
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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Munzhelele, Ntungufhadzeni Freddy
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Dividend payout decisions remain one of the key functional areas in corporate finance, as it involves the means by which shareholders receive returns on their investments. For many decades, the academic debate on payout ...