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The cost of compliance: the case of South African banks

Marx, Johan; Mynhardt, Ronald H. (Virtus InterPress, 2011)

Compliance cost is expenditure of time or money in conforming to government requirements such as regulation or legislation. In the press it is stated that the cost of compliance is much too high in South Africa. Some South ...
Assessing the financial viability of metropolitan municipalities in Gauteng.

Ngwenya, Sam; Majam, T. (Association of Southern African Schools and Departments of Public Administration and Management. ASSADPAM., 2011)

Metropolitan municipalities in Gauteng have been plagued by poor service delivery in recent years. This has been the root of violent protests in most of the communities in this province. This article intends to explore the ...
Private hospitals in South Africa: a compliance framework

Mynhardt R.H.; Marx, Johan (2012)
Trends in credit to smallholder farmers in South Africa

Chisasa, Joseph; Makina, Daniel (Clute Institute, 2012)

Access to credit for smallholder farmers remains a challenge in most developing countries. This paper examines the trend and pattern of bank credit to smallholder farmers in South Africa, both before and after the attainment ...
CEO compensation and performance of state owned enterprises in South Africa.

Ngwenya, Sam; Khumalo, Mahlomolo (2012)

The study investigates the relationship between CEO compensation and performance of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in South Africa, using data for the period 2009 to 2011. The results indicated that there exist no positive ...
Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Zimbabwe: A dynamic causality test

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa; Odhiambo N.M. (2012)

In this study we examine the dynamic causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zimbabwe - using the modern time-series techniques. Specifically, we employ the ARDL-bounds testing ...
A dynamic causality test of exports and economic growth in Zimbabwe

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa; Odhiambo, N.M. (InderscienceLtd, 2012)

In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between export growth and economic growth. The causal relationship between exports and economic growth has been a subject of extensive debate in recent years. There are ...
The use of Key Risk Indicators by banks as an operational risk management tool: A South African perspective

Young, Jacobus (Young, J. 2012. The use of Key Risk Indicators by banks as an operational risk management tool: A South African perspective, Corporate Ownership & Control, vol. 9, issue 3, pp, 2012)

The use of key risk indicators as a management tool is one of the requirements for the calculation of a bank’s operational risk capital charge. This article provides insight into the use of key risk indicators as an ...
Critical success factors for the implementation of an operational risk management system

Gibson, M.D.; Young, Jacobus (Virtus Interrpress, 2012)

Operational risk has become an increasingly important topic within financial institutions resulting in an increased spend on operational risk management solutions. While this is a positive approach, evidence has shown that ...
Stock market development foreign capital inflows and economic growth in Zimbabwe: a multivariate causality test

Odhiambo NM; Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (2012)
Incident risk management: the case of banks in East and West Africa

Mynhardt R.H.; Marx, Johan (2012)

An incident is the occurrence of a seemingly minor event, which is important enough that, if not properly managed, can lead to serious consequences. In contrast, a crisis is a stage in a series of events that significantly ...
The dynamics of capital market development in Zimbabwe

Odhiambo NM; Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (2012)
Success factors for exporting industrial products. The view points of major South African manufacturers

Wiid, Jan (2012)
The Relationship between Working Capital Management and Profitability of Listed Companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Ngwenya, Sam (2012-08)

Efficient working capital management is an integral component of the overall corporate strategy to create shareholders’ wealth. This paper seeks to extend findings regarding the relationship between working capital management ...
An analysis of the contribution of leadership to organizational performance using complexity science

Nienaber, Hester; Svensson, Goran (2013)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the leadership tasks at the different hierarchical levels in the organisation in terms of the teleological approaches to complexity science. Design/methodology/approach – ...
Bank credit and agricultural output in South Africa: A Cobb-Douglas empirical analysis.

Chisasa, Joseph; Makina, Daniel (Clute Institute, 2013)

We empirically examine the impact of bank credit on agricultural output in South Africa using the Cobb-Douglas production function. We utilize time series data of agricultural output, bank credit, capital accumulation, ...
Survival strategies for SMES in hyperinflationary environments: lessons from SMES in Harare Central Business District.

Chisasa, Joseph (Virtus Interpress, 2013)

Lack of credit led to the failure of many Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Zimbabwe from 2005 to 2009 when inflation peaked at 231 million percent. The article attempted to determine how SMEs survived during this ...
Is there a relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Zimbabwe?

Tsaurai, Kunofiwa (Virtus InterPress, 2013)

This paper investigated the causality relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Zimbabwe using a bi-variate time series framework for the period 1980 to 2011. The causality relationship between ...
An empirical analysis of the interest rate-vehicle purchase decision nexus in South Africa.

Chisasa, Joseph; Dlamini, Winnie (Clute Institute., 2013)

The domestic passenger car market has witnessed substantial growth in South Africa. At the same time, bank repossessions and black-listing of defaulting borrowers have increased in sympathy. This paper empirically examines ...
Effectiveness of the Management of Price Risk Methodologies for the Corn Market based on Trading Signals.

Rossouw, W; Young, Jacobus (Virtus Interpress, 2013)

Corn production is scattered geographically over various continents, but most of it is grown in the United States. As such, the world price of corn futures contracts is largely dominated by North American corn prices as ...

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