Programme

Please note that this is a draft programme and topics and speakers could change.

Draft Programme

Topics that will be covered in this years conference

• A case for corporate governance in non profit organisations funded by the Gauteng Department of Social Development
• No more CCs: a case study on the effects of the moratorium on the registration of new close corporations in South Africa
• The Value of the market: demutualisation, accounting and enhanced market performance
• An analysis of the impact of reproductive health on growth and poverty: the case of Mauritius
• What are the distributional implications of halving poverty in South Africa when growth alone is not enough?
• The relation between employee remuneration gaps and labour productivity: the Gauteng manufacturing industry as a case study
• An analysis of the disclosure of financial instruments by the large listed companies on the JSE Limited
• A comparative analysis of the reliability of fair value in measuring the financial instruments of South African banks
• Measurement bases in financial reporting and economic cycle: do their changes add some value for users of financial statements?
• E-commerce will establish new opportunities for women entering the global markets
• Economic growth by stock market: theoretical analysis and application to a sample of African countries
• Stock market wealth and consumer spending: implication for monetary policy in South Africa
• Factors Influencing the Relationship between Financial Development and Emerging Country Growth
• Household Response to the Economic Crisis
• Who are the financial directors of South Africa’s largest companies?
• Financial leverage decisions in an era of corporate earnings down-turn and financial market instability - the Nigerian experience
• The extent to which risk management tools are utilized within South African government departments: focus on IT investments
• The value of new the articulation routes for diploma students in Accountancy within the University of Johannesburg and within the Accountancy profession …
• Design-based research and the reform of accounting education
• The Relationship of Mathematics on Academic Success in Accounting
• Analysing director conduct in South Africa
• The impact of accounting standards developments and financial reporting complexities on the audit committee
• The company as a responsible corporate citizen: an analysis of the board’s commitment to sustainability
• The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence.
• An assessment of the industrialisation path in South Africa: a case for Gauteng Province
• The JAK model and the Shari’ah Compliant model: A qualitative comparison and contrast of the two savings and loans approaches
• Who to believe? Consumer susceptibility towards gender specific financial advice
• The role of legislation in addressing the housing crisis in South Africa
• The relevance of major discounted cash flow and non-discounted cash flow techniques in measuring the efficiency of capital investment decisions pertaining to …
• A commentary on research frameworks applied in accounting research
• An assessment of research frameworks applied in accounting research in South Africa
• The Effect of Fiscal Policy on the Size of the Informal Sector in Nigeria
• Three Cycles: Housing, Credit, and Real Activity
• The Ora as facilitator of sustainable local economic development in Orania
• More is less or less is more? Growth volatility and long term economic growth performance in South Africa
• Spatial Price Transmission Analysis in Agricultural Markets: Does the Data Frequency Improve our Estimation?
• Alternative energy: modelling conflict within a risk environment
• Underpricing of initial public offerings (IPOs) on African Stock Markets: the case of Ghana and Nigeria
• The South African market response to special dividend and share repurchase announcements
• Swap spreads: recent trends and implications for sustainable growth
• The roles and responsibilities of CFOs after the global financial crisis
• The impact of the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Royalty Act on the South African mining industry: A critical analysis
• Potential inconsistencies created through inadequate guidance on liquidity and solvency tests in The Companies Bill: a critical assessment
• The pros and cons of the Child Support Grant in South Africa
• To regulate or not to regulate … a contemporary view of the steel industry
• Income and expenditure patterns of households in poor areas in Soweto
• African poverty: behavioural perspectives
• Self-Employment and Labour Market Outcomes
• Determinants of inflation in Swaziland
• Customer value
• The intended consequences of combining public sector services – a customer viewpoint
• Evaluating the need to measure human capital return on investment (ROI) in training: The case of Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
• Investigating the success of an academic support programme for black accounting students
• The roll-out of teaching and learning resources at the Department of Accountancy, University of Johannesburg: a study outline
• Reflective teaching strategy in teaching first year accounting in higher education
• The inverted U-hypothesis for the effect of uncertainty on investment: an empirical analysis for Ghana and South Africa
• Assessing Financial Risk Tolerance
• One step closer to defining the value proposition of multi-managers in South Africa
• Archival research of the underlying intellectual paradigm of fair value accounting
• Compliance by taxi operators with legislated reporting and taxation requirements
• Implementing the waste discharge charge system in the Crocodile (West) River catchment
• "At school we just played": Perceptions of skills acquired in the National Senior Certificate - implications and challenges for Higher Education in South Africa
• An international look at software-based teaching and learning in the finance faculties of universities
• The value in Financial Planning at a graduate level
• Income of an inter vivos trust: Investigating the applicability of anti-avoidance provisions.
• Gender discrimination in tax legislation
• CFC translation rules: Is the taxpayer currently getting the short end of the stick?
• The retention of South African female chartered accountants in public practice
• "Learning to be" – a view on student learning attitudes
• Terms of trade and economic development: a case study of the top emerging market economies
• EPAs: On what and for whom?
• Mental accounting: a new approach against classical financial management models
• Using annual reports to add value to the efficiency of South Africa’s Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAS)
• Accounting and accountability – the link between quality sustainability reporting and sustainable behaviour
• Research focus areas: Generation Y members of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants
• The Big Five personality factors and academic achievement in the first-year of a B Com degree - a South African perspective
• Beyond the Icelandic financials fad, Africa can as well look to pull value from underneath its rubble …
• How to improve industrial competitiveness in South African downstream industries to achieve long-term competitiveness?
• Foreign Direct Investment between India and South Africa
• Comparing South African financial markets behaviour to the geometric Brownian motion process
• Banks in transition countries as a most attractive investment
• Towards a more equitable performance management system in rewarding of bonuses to lecturers in 2010

Please note that this is a draft programme and topics and speakers could change.