QUESTION ONE [20] Read the case study carefully and then answer the questions that follow: Pick n Pay bets on new CEO after sinks into loss JOHANNESBURG, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Pick n Pay will review its strategy after the South African grocery retailer made a half-year loss, the new chief executive officer charged with luring back customers and restoring profits said on Wednesday. By […]
Posted: April 21, 2024
QUESTION ONE [20] “Economic systems are the means by which countries and governments organize, allocate and distribute goods, services and resources.” In terms of the above statement, compare and contrast the different economic systems. Include in your answer examples of contemporary economic systems. QUESTION TWO [20] For each of the following independent events, explain with the aid of a diagram, the effect on the equilibrium […]
Posted: April 21, 2024
Question 1: (25 marks) On 14 November 2023 Flying Solo Airlines (Pty) Ltd had a sale on their return tickets from Johannesburg to Cape Town. As a result, 15 return airline tickets of R1250 each were sold to passengers travelling in May 2024. Payment for these tickets were made by the passengers on the 15 November 2023 and transferred into Flying Solo Airlines (Pty) Ltd’s […]
Posted: April 20, 2024
Allegro Boosts Online Click-Through Rates by 500 Percent with Web Analysis The Allegro Group is headquartered in Posnan , Poland, and is considered the largest non-eBay online marketplace in the world. Allegro, which currently offers over 75 proprietary Web sites in 11 European countries around the world, hosts over 15 million products and generates over 500 million page views per day. The challenge it faced […]
Posted: April 20, 2024
QUESTION ONE [25] 1.1 Evaluate the significance of capitalism in relation to business ethics. (12) 1.2 Describe the Relativist argument as a source of ethics. (13) QUESTION TWO [15] Discuss the effects of technology and business ethics. QUESTION THREE [25] 3.1 Describe the benefits of having a code of ethics in business. (10) 3.2 Distinguish between the terms ethics, norms and values. (15) QUESTION FOUR […]
Posted: April 17, 2024
Question 1: (25 marks) On 14 November 2023 Flying Solo Airlines (Pty) Ltd had a sale on their return tickets from Johannesburg to Cape Town. As a result, 15 return airline tickets of R1250 each were sold to passengers travelling in May 2024. Payment for these tickets were made by the passengers on the 15 November 2023 and transferred into Flying Solo Airlines (Pty) Ltd’s […]
Posted: April 17, 2024
QUESTION ONE [25] “Fiscal policy is the use of government spending and taxation to influence the economy. It seeks to support structural reforms of an economy consistent with long run growth, employment creation and an equitable distribution of income.” In terms of the above statement, using the two main tools of fiscal policy as the basis for your answer, examine how fiscal policy can be […]
Posted: April 17, 2024
An Alternative Investment Team Harnesses Textual Data Analytics to Find New Sources of Alpha THE CLIENT: A Swiss-based multi-asset management firm with $95 billion in assets under management. USERS: Alternative Style Premia Team This Swiss-based investment management firm specializing in alternative investing sought to leverage natural language processing (NLP) to extract valuable insights from earnings call transcripts. Managed as an independent company, the firm has […]
Posted: April 15, 2024
Comair flew headlong into a perfect storm of problems A perfect storm of bad luck, fate and dirty dealing led to the demise of Comair, the budget airline of choice for many South Africans. Bad luck was the disastrous order of Boeing 737 Max planes, for which Comair had paid $45 million in deposits for 8 of the planes, but had only taken delivery of […]
Posted: April 15, 2024
Case Study on MIS: Information System in Restaurant A waiter takes an order at a table, and then enters it online via one of the six terminals located in the restaurant dining room. The order is routed to a printer in the appropriate preparation area: the cold item printer if it is a salad, the hot-item printer if it is a hot sandwich or the […]
Posted: April 11, 2024
