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Female entrepreneurs, the key to economic growth in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2010)The South African government has set a target of reducing unemployment by fifty percent by the year 2014. In order for government to achieve this target, more attention needs to be given to female entrepreneurs. This is ... -
The finance-growth Nexus : lessons from South Africa.
(2016)Recent studies (Allen and Ndikumana, 2000; Odhiambo. 2004; Gondo, 2009; and Sunde, 2011) on the relationship between finance and economic growth in the South African context have produced mixed findings. Given that there ... -
Financial administration of the road network in Natal.
(1988)Man has always been a traveller and in the early days he followed the familiar and well-trodden routes. But man was always in search of the easiest route by following a direct line across a plain, the contours in hilly ... -
Financial capability of practicing professionals: a comparative analysis of finance and non-finance professional’s financial capability.
(2020)Being financially capable relates to having the ability to make optimal financial decisions that can have severe impact on an individual’s financial wellbeing. This severe impact may be felt immediately in the short term ... -
Financial capability, financial socialisation and professional skills of Accounting students studying in KwaZulu-Natal universities.
(2019)The global discourse on financial capability and financial socialisation has gained momentum in recent times. Professional skills gradually become an issue that prospective employers say most graduates are missing. This ... -
Financial education on new Nedbank clients in the Durban central business district.
(2013)Financial literacy is about making individuals aware and skilled in making decisions regarding financial services and products which will benefit them. The need for financial literacy in South Africa is huge considering ... -
Financial literacy among small and medium enterprises in Zimbabwe.
(2018)Global concerns about financial literacy have heightened following the 2007/8 global financial crisis where it became apparent that lack of financial literacy was one of factors that contributed to the detrimental financial ... -
Financial management by public school principals in Nkangala District of Mpumalanga Province of South Africa.
(2014)The South African Schools Act of 1996 makes provision for school governing bodies (SGBs) of public schools to become progressively more responsible for managing aspects of their schools’ regular expenditure. Experience has ... -
Financial provisions and environmental liabilities on industrial sites.
(2017)This paper looks at the management of environmental liabilities in South Africa with a specific emphasis on industrial sites. The focus on industrial sites is due to the illustrated environmental legacy issues which arise ... -
Financial risk management and bank profitability in South African banks.
(2017)This study examined the connection between financial risk management and banks’ profitability in a South African context. The relationship was segmented into three major financial risks; credit risk, liquidity risk and ... -
Financial sector development and economic growth in Rwanda.
There is a widespread consensus in the literature that financial sector development plays a significant role in economic growth. Several studies have also shown that economic growth is associated with an efficient banking ... -
Financial sustainability, liquidity and outreach of deposit-taking microfinance institutions: evidence from low income Sub-Saharan Africa.
(2020)The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals regard microfinance provision as a developmental tool in fighting poverty and financial exclusion which are particularly rife in Low-Income Sub-Saharan Africa (LISSA). ... -
Firm size and the day of the week effect on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
(2020)The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) asserts that stock prices always entirely reflect all available information and that stock prices follow a random walk, where future stock prices are not predictable based on historical ... -
First line manager's perceptions of their changing role at Amalgamated Beverage Industries.
(2013)In order to remain competitive organisations go through changes, becoming smaller in size resulting in some departments, positions in finance and human resources becoming redundant, promoting employee empowerment, flexibility ... -
Fiscal decentralization in Kenya : an analysis of the implementation of the Constituency Development Fund in the Naivasha and Gatanga Constituencies.
(2016)In the wake of government reform in Kenya, fiscal decentralization has been adopted as a new framework to share fiscal powers and functions between national and county governments. Primarily, the objective for this new ... -
Fixed-term contracts and the reasonable expectation of renewal and the effect of the Labour Relations Amendment Bill 2012.
(2014)This dissertation aims to explore the nature of fixed-term contracts and their effect. Employees who are employed on fixed-term contracts usually develop a reasonable expectation of renewal. A reasonable expectation may ... -
Flexible work arrangements, job satisfaction and performance within Eskom shared services.
(2017)Many Organizations are faced with time management problems such as late coming, leaving early from work and absenteeism. This research study looked at how Flexible work arrangements can decrease these time management ... -
Flexitime as a tool to reduce employee stress : an exploratory study.
(2011)The aim of the study was to investigate flexitime as a potential moderator to reduce the administrative employee stress, and to reduce the negative aspects associated with stress through the use of flexitime programmes. ... -
"A focus on directors' duties of care, skill and diligence in terms of the common law and the Companies Act 71 of 2008".
This paper aims to expose the common law directors’ duties of care and skill encapsulated under the South African commercial law. Thereafter an in depth analysis of the newly introduced statutory duty of care, skill and ...