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Browsing Economic and Management Sciences by Supervisor "Brummer, L.M., 1940-"
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(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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(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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(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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The extent of voluntary disclosure in corporate reports of South African listed industrial companies (University of Pretoria, 2007-08-18)Please read the abstract (Summary) on pp264-265 of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The study examined the momentum in the fundamentals of companies over time, and whether the information content in the momentum of the fundamentals improved the understanding of the long-standing price momentum and earnings ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)A reverse event study approach is used to investigate how the South African sovereign bond yield curve react to headline news. Abnormal return dates in the zero-coupon yields are identified using GARCH models on the daily ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Previous studies have invoked information costs, the trade-off theory and the pecking-order theory as well as agency problems to explain capital structure and distribution strategies independently. However, the theories ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The working capital management of a firm has a strong influence on the firm’s profitability and liquidity. The retail industry is vital to the South African economy; hence, if poor working capital management influences a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)This thesis examines three aspects of capital structure of manufacturing, mining and retail firms listed on Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE). Firstly, it tests for the validity of the pecking order, the static trade-off ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This study investigates several of the mandatory disclosures for investments in associates. An important investigation of this study is whether or not the information content in disclosed fair values for investments in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This study presents a three-tiered approach to determine financial distress in companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The objective of this unique approach is to contribute to the existing knowledge base in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The linear factor model is a building block of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT). Macroeconomic factors may be used in linear factor models to proxy for the pervasive influences in returns. However, as the true return ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This study investigates the use of derivatives by firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) during 2005 to 2017, and the disclosure of derivative financial instruments on the financial statements of these ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The value relevance of goodwill is a topic of ongoing discussion in accounting, because of the nature of this intangible asset, and changes in the accounting standards regarding the disclosure of goodwill and goodwill ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-08-03)It is widely accepted that the primary objective or goal of a firm is to maximise the value of its shareholders' equity. An increase in wealth increases the satisfaction of any financial market participant, or in this case, ...
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