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Showing 1 to 20 of 505 for “"finance and tax"”.
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The History and Relevance of the Beneficial Ownership Concept in Tax Treaties ? Specifically in the context of the Introduction of the Principal Purpose Test
… primarily introduced to prevent treaty shopping and to ensure that only those liable to tax could claim treaty advantages. However, the term is not explicitly defined in the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital (OECD MTC), leading to its …
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The suitability and practicality of the OECD transfer pricing methods to Zimbabwe
… provisions of Section 98B of the Zimbabwe Income Tax Act as read with the 35th schedule governing all related party transactions both domestic and cross border between companies forms the foundation of the transfer pricing legislative regulatory framework in Zimbabwe. The arm's length principle …
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Credit default swaps in a roll-over risk framework
Spreads between swap legs referencing floating cashflows of different tenors have widened significantly since the global financial crisis of 2008. This frequency basis can be explained by the presence of “roll-over risk”. Defining the roll-over risk state variables in an affine form, this …
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Foreign portfolio equity flows in selected Sub-Saharan Africa Countries: the underlying process, impact on stock market capitalisation, and policy options
The volatility of capital flows and their adverse impact on macroeconomic and financial variables is a major concern to policy makers, resulting in a debate on whether capital controls or financial (capital account) liberalisation is best suited to managing them. This study argues that a better …
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A lifeline for Small Business in South Africa: An evaluation of section 12J, Venture Capital Incentives
… including section 12J venture capital companies and investigates the role and success of targeted tax incentives in South Africa. The VCC incentive targeted start-ups and SME's generally considered high growth and high-tech, or junior mining and exploration companies. SME's, especially …
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The Effect of Dataset Size on the Performance of Classification Algorithms for Credit Scoring
… techniques spurred on by fast, cheap computing and the generation and collection of massive datasets, there has been a great deal of research benchmarking the performance of these powerful machine learning algorithms against traditional techniques used in credit scoring. This dissertation …
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The effect of idiosyncratic and macroeconomic risk on cash holdings
The thesis explores the dynamics and determinants of corporate cash holding (or corporate liquidity) in South Africa in three related studies. The first study empirically investigates the sensitivity of corporate cash holdings to changes in idiosyncratic and macroeconomic risk. The analysis is …
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Covered Interest Parity and XVAs
… relies on a traditional no-arbitrage argument and states that the difference in interest rates between two currencies should be linked to the spot and forward exchange rates. One would expect an arbitrage opportunity to be traded away, however, the covered interest parity relationship has been …
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Disclosure and the cost of capital
[pg 11 is missing] In both academic literature and business practice there appears to be contradictory views concerning the existence, and nature, of the relationship between the quality of corporate disclosure and associated company cost of equity capital. Theory suggests that an informed investor …
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An investigation into reference-day risk-free metrics in the context of modern portfolio theory on the JSE
… portfolio theory (MPT), asset pricing models and broader financial modelling are dependent upon the accuracy of input parameters. For example, the accuracy of expected returns, standard deviations and correlations as an input into MPT will result in a more efficient selection of the optimal …
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Herding by South African Equity Unit Trusts: An analysis of the causes and extent of herding behaviour on the JSE Limited
… equity unit trusts follow each other into and out of the same shares (i.e., herd), and specifically whether such herding is motivated by intent. This dissertation ascertained intent by observing the interaction of correlated trading behaviour and states of the general equity market, …
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The income tax consequences of the clawback of shares in the context of employee share schemes
… of this dissertation is to examine the income tax consequences of the clawback of shares awarded in terms of employee share schemes in South Africa in terms of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 as amended (“the ITA”). The dissertation first examines how section 8C of the ITA would apply in the …
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Gram-Charlier expansions and option pricing
… the model to capture skewness, excess kurtosis and higher moments in observed asset returns. Schlogl (2013) proposes a calibration method to ensure the fitted densities are valid and arbitrage free. This method is implemented with standard foreign exchange options and gives an exact fit when …
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No-Arbitrage Option Pricing with Neural SDEs
… by combining the power of neural networks and SDEs, two influential modelling approaches. SDEs are used to model systems that exhibit randomness or uncertainty and are defined by a set of differential equations that describe the evolution of the system over time, along with a random noise …
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A critical analysis as to whether a company is entitled to carry forward assessed losses if such company has traded but has derived no income therefrom
The Income Tax Act No 58 of 1962 provides for tax to be levied on an annual basis (i.e. income and expenditure are generally calculated and determined in respect of a single year of assessment). Section 20(1) makes provision for the possibility that the allowable deductions may exceed a taxpayer's …
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Developing a foundation for a globally coordinated approach to the taxation of crypto-asset transactions
Crypto-assets and blockchain technology have created much uncertainty within the field of taxation. While some jurisdictions have attempted to formulate responses, others have yet to meaningfully engage with the topic. In contrast to the taxation of the digitalised economy, a coordinated global …
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Jump detection tests in financial time series ? a deep learning approach
… process. Jumps are theorised to be rare, sudden, and thought to be the result of the market reacting to new information. Jump tests are identified as crucial to understand market incompleteness arising from this discontinuity. Across studies, the Lee and Mykland (2007) method emerges as one of the …
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Altman Z-Score Models and predicting financial distress: Empirical study of delisted mining stocks on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… models when used to predict financial health and subsequent delisting of mining and metal companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from 1994 till 2021. The study applied the Altman's Z-score model as well as the Z double prime model to the financials of JSE listed mining …
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The effects of the unexpected cautionary and annual earnings announcements on the Price Formation Process: evidence from the JSE
… the historical prices if below the mean you buy and vice versa. The average security prices must be the product of the passing of time but most importantly the direction must be susceptible to a particular point in time. Investor decision-making involves a selection of a combination of the …
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An Investigation into The Predictive Power of Overnight Gaps on The Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… of this research is to comprehensively identify and analyse the relationship between overnight price gaps and subsequent intraday returns for publicly traded South African companies. These theoretical findings will also be applied practically, with a simulated trading strategy created and tested …
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