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Theses and Dissertations (Financial Management): Recent submissions
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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, 2021-10)The optimality of active or passively managed investment fund alternatives is a contentious topic in the field of investment management. The efficient market hypothesis states that active funds should not be able to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Purpose: Retirement planning has been declining rapidly all over the world due to the shift of self-funding mechanisms, such as moving from a Defined Benefit (DB) plan to the Defined Contribution (DC) plan, where individuals ...
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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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The role and usage of suitable financial products for saving and investment purposes in South Africa (University of Pretoria, 2020)The study focused on examining the saving and investment behaviours of South Africans. There has been no extensive research in existing literature that has focused on this area of study. This study intends to extend the ...
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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, 2020-09-16)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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(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, 2018-10-31)There is a global shift with regard to the retirement provision of individuals as people have a greater responsibility towards their financial plans for retirement. Globally, there is a concern that people are not saving ...
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(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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014-10-31)This study was necessitated by the fact that, thus far, no prior research on the saving behaviour of young adults, particularly university students, had been undertaken in a South African context. The primary objective of ...
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Behavioural aspects that influence business decision-making by management accounting professionals (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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(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, 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)This study investigates the causal relationships, both long run and short run between the Industrial Index 25 and some macroeconomic variables in South Africa. Quarterly data from all the variables was collected from 1995 ...
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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)Saving for retirement has become more complicated for employees due to the complexity of the financial decisions involved. Financial decision making is believed to be associated with a number of behavioural and socio-economic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)This study empirically examines the impact of capital structure on the profitability of the industrial firms listed on the JSE over a period 2006-2015. The sample consists of 52 industrial companies with a complete data ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Financial literacy has been identified in previous studies as an area that has not been researched extensively in South Africa. This is particularly true for Black South Africans who have been previously disadvantaged and ...
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