QUESTION ONE [25] 1.1 There are ten (10) accounts listed on the following table. Complete the table by identifying and recording the element to which each account will be allocated and state whether the account will be shown in the statement of financial position (SOFP), the statement of changes in equity (SOCE) or the statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income (SOCI). You […]
Posted: October 1, 2024
QUESTION ONE [50] Read the scenario below and answer the questions that follow. Tesco is the UK’s largest food retailer, with a sales turnover of more than €67.5 billion. While it has some 638 stores in central Europe, and some 636 in the Far East, most are in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, where it has nearly 1,800. This number has increased rapidly as […]
Posted: September 26, 2024
QUESTION ONE [50] Question 1.1 and 1.2 is based on the excerpt below: The petroleum company Total has discovered a potential 1 billion barrels of “wet” gas off the coast of South Africa which could be used as petrol or perhaps even converted into electricity. These discoveries of gas condensate fields off the coast of Mossel Bay, South Africa, have been hailed as “game-changers” for […]
Posted: September 26, 2024
Five important digital marketing trends for SA retailers 2021 was an interesting year for marketing — more businesses turned to digital to reach new audiences and navigate the new normal as digital media consumption continued to increase, says Dr Ewoudt Cloete, senior manager at Digital Operations at Game. Cloete adds that retailers specifically were required to adapt and prioritise their digital strategies. This was to […]
Posted: September 12, 2024
Train to retain: How to tackle learning and development as a scaleup Upskilling employees through learning & development (L&D) has become a vital tool in retaining talent. A recent study by City & Guilds Group found that 41% of senior L&D and HR professionals view workplace learning as one of the most important factors in their ability to attract and keep their best employees. But […]
Posted: September 10, 2024
QUESTION ONE [55] Lunga Dlamini, aged 56, is a resident of the Republic. Lunga is married out of community of property. He is currently employed at Quantico (Pty) Ltd. The following information relates to Lunga for the year of assessment ended 29 February 2023: 1. Lunga earned a basic salary of R92 500 per month for the 2023 year of assessment. On 1 December 2022, […]
Posted: September 2, 2024
University aces data strategy to retain more students For the past year, Jason Simon, PhD, has been on a journey to fundamentally reengineer the data landscape of the University of North Texas (UNT). Like any large enterprise, UNT is awash in data. Academic data. Business data. Research data. As Assistant Vice President for Data Analytics and Institutional Research, Simon knows the potential of data to […]
Posted: September 2, 2024
QUESTION ONE [30] The South African housing market has been doing surprisingly well, given the increase in demand levels. Analyse the factors contributing to the increasing demand in the housing market. (15) Choose a contemporary business and discuss any three factors that may result in economies of scale for the firm. (15) QUESTION TWO [20] UBER competes with several similar service providers such as Taxify, […]
Posted: August 22, 2024
QUESTION ONE [25] Verruca Limited, a convenience franchise attached to Go Fuel Filling Stations, has recently launched a customer loyalty programme that rewards a customer with one customer loyalty point for every R30 of purchases. The loyalty programme is optional ie customers need to register to join it and it is free to join. However, not all customers choose to take advantage of the programme. […]
Posted: August 20, 2024
Zero to R500m since 2006 — the story of Yuppiechef Savvy dressers know how to mix cheap brands with high-end items. So too do the yuppie chefs among us Andrew Smith and Shane Dryden were web designers with backgrounds in technology, online marketing and brand-building, but they wanted to sell products and not just their time. After an initial foray into bug zappers and flags […]
Posted: August 20, 2024
