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The danger of high growth combined with a large non-cash working capital base - a descriptive analysis
(AOSIS, 2002)A high growth rate may not be the ultimate measure of a successful company. This article shows that growth at too high a rate, for a company with a high non-cash working capital component, may lead to financial ... -
The dangers of positional smugplacency : is a wave of destructive incompetence gathering momentum in the South African workplace?
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Dataset on retail outlet product prices for Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa
(Elsevier, 2018-08)The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled “Closer monetary union and product market integration in emerging economies: Evidence from the Common Monetary Area in Southern Africa” (M. ... -
Date-stamping US housing market explosivity
(Leibniz Association, 2018)In this paper, the authors set out to date-stamp periods of US housing price explosivity for the period 1830–2013. They make use of several robust techniques that allow them to identify such periods by determining when ... -
Dealcoholised wine : motivations, preferences and perceptions of South African Generation Y consumers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY: Alcohol plays a major role in the daily lives of millions of consumers around the world. It has played a central role throughout the development of humankind and has become one of the most widely produced ... -
Dealing with the challenge of generating employment in South Africa : does banking sector efficiency matter?
(The Clute Institute, 2013)In this paper, the authors seek to investigate the nexus between banking sector efficiency and labour employment in South Africa. The Hicks-Moorsteen aggregator functions were used to generate total factor productivity ... -
Debates on industrialisation and economic growth in the Netherlands
(International Institute of Social History, 2014-06-15)With the renewed interest in macro-economic quantifi cation since the 1950s the study of long-term economic growth and development became also an important theme within the discipline of economic history. It developed ... -
Debt capitalisation : an analysis of the application of section 24BA of the Income Tax Act
(University of Pretoria, 2018)Die kapitalisering van skuld in ruil vir die uitreiking van aandele is ’n algemene verskynsel en kan op drie wyses geskied, naamlik deur die direkte uitreik van aandele (met of sonder kontantvloei), deur skuld-vergelyking ... -
Debt capitalisation: investigating the term ‘reduction amount’ in the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The capitalisation of debt in exchange for the issuance of shares is a common occurrence, not only in South Africa, but also internationally. Generally, there are three methods through which debts are ... -
Debt reduction : indicative factors in classification as a donation for income tax purposes
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)Debt reduction in business is recognised for the economic relief afforded to the debtor involved. The new debt reduction regime was introduced in the Income Tax Act (section 19 and paragraph 12A of the Eighth Schedule) ... -
The decarbonisation of transport logistics : a South African case study
(Unisa Press, 2018-10-09)South Africa is currently one of the "dirtiest" economies in the world in terms of carbon emissions. The South African economy is heavily dependent on energy-intensive industries, such as mining and primary minerals ... -
Decentralisation and the practice of intergovernmental relations in Mezam Division, Northwest region of Cameroon
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : After over three decades of centralisation, Cameroon, like many African countries, introduced decentralisation reforms in the 1990s partly as a means of empowering democratically elected lower levels of ... -
Decentralisation for community development - a Rwanda Case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A community-centred development which can be qualified as authentic development leads to the sustainability of the community. This must be understood as a process of economic, political and social change ... -
Decision support for generator maintenance scheduling in the energy sector
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As the world-wide consumption of electricity continually increases, more and more pressure is put on the capabilities of power generating systems to maintain their levels of power provision. The electricity ... -
Decision support for threat detection in maritime surveillance
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The policing and monitoring of South Africa's coastline and economic exclusion zone is made di cult not only by the size of the area of interest, but also by the limited resources available for maritime ... -
A decision support system for scheduling the harvesting and wine making processes at a winery
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Technological advances made over the past century have had a major impact on traditional wineries. Software solutions for management issues are widely available and give rise to the prospect of computerized ... -
Decision support with respect to facility location and fleet composition for FoodBank Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: FoodBank South Africa is an non-profit organisation formed to establish a national network of community foodbanks in urban and rural areas of South Africa, with all participants working towards the ... -
Decolonising knowledge : in what sense is an ‘African’ ethic possible?
(2017-04)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : In hierdie intreerede word die aandrang op ‘dekolonisasie van kennis’ bepreek aan die hand van pogings om ʼn inheemse, Afrika-etiek op die grondslag van ubuntu te konstrueer. Die gevolgtrekking is dat ... -
Decoupling : natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2011-05)By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times its current appetite – unless the economic growth rate is “decoupled” from the rate of natural ... -
Decoupling infrastructure services from unsustainable resource use : cases from Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)Please refer to full text to view abstract.
