Thesis (MAcc)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the question whether a company that issues shares in exchange for assets or services incurs expenditure for purposes of the Income Tax Act No 58 of 1962. It is concluded that a company may, in terms of the Companies Act No 61 of 1973 and the Companies Act No 71 of 2008, only issue shares once it has received consideration for those shares. Unissued shares have no value and are not considered to be assets of the company. Die ordinary meaning of the word expenditure requires the action of spending an amount of money, funds or other resources. In light of this meaning it is further concluded that the issue of shares does not qualify as expenditure actually incurred by the company. It is further concluded that the principles of what expenditure entails for income tax purposes, laid down in CSARS v Labat Africa Limited, are accurate and should form the basis whenever it is necessary to consider whether expenditure was actually incurred. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie is ʼn ondersoek na die vraag of die uitreik van aandele deur ʼn maatskappy, ten einde bates of dienste te bekom, sou beteken dat die maatskappy onkoste werklik aangegaan het vir doeleindes van die Inkomstebelastingwet No. 58 van 1962. Daar word bevind dat ʼn maatskappy ingevolge die Maatskappywet No. 61 van 1973 en die Maatskappywet No. 71 van 2008 slegs aandele mag uitreik sodra die teenprestasie ontvang is en dat onuitgereikte aandele geen waarde het nie en ook nie bates is van die maatskappy nie. Die gewone betekenis van die woord onkoste vereis ʼn aksie of handeling van betaling of uitgee van ʼn bedrag geld, fondse of ander hulpbronne. In die lig hiervan word daar bevind dat die uitreik van aandele nie onkoste is wat werklik aangegaan word deur ʼn maatskappy nie. Daar word verder bevind dat die beginsel van wat onkoste behels vir inkomstebelastingdoeleindes, soos neergelê in CSARS v Labat Africa Limited, korrek is en die basis vorm wanneer daar oorweeg word of onkoste werklik aangegaan word.

Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / This research report examines the dispersal of information into the share market. According to the efficient market hypothesis, the share price always reflects all available information on a company. This information is incorporated into the share price via heterogeneous trader interaction: a transaction between a willing buyer and a willing seller sets the latest share price. Therefore, the dispersal of information is a dynamic process. This process has been modelled with a newly developed micro-economic, stochastic, dynamic model for share price based on trader interaction. The model has been implemented as a Monte Carlo simulation with several supporting metrics to assess simulation results. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations have been performed to validate the model and to examine the dispersal and value of information. Key findings are that trader interaction is a dominant effect in both the dispersal of information and portfolio performance; technical trading, i.e. trading on only past share price information, can be beneficial under certain conditions; technical trading causes the share price to increase significantly compared to rational trading; information is more valuable for fast changing markets and small companies. The findings from Monte Carlo simulation have been compared with sectors of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and advice is provided with regards to the value of information per sector.

This thesis is dedicated only to an influence of a member on managing company limited by shares. The thesis was written between the legal effects of two acts, but the new legal regulation, with regard to the old regulation and case law, developing for more than 20 years, was the base for my thesis. The first chapter describes the key terms of this thesis, which are crucial for good understanding of the whole problematic. The second chapter deals with the term share, which represents the participation of a member in a company. The chapter analyses its quantitative and particularly its qualitative aspect. The institute of share has changed in such a way that it has to be explained precisely. Understanding of the term share is important for the whole thesis, because it is the share itself, which represents the influence of the member. The focal point of my thesis is described in the third chapter, which deals with a member's right to participate on managing company limited by shares. This right is asserted especially through general meeting. The chapter gives an overview about the main changes in competence and functioning of the general meeting. There is also member's influence beyond the general meeting, through per rollam decision-making, described in this chapter. The chapter also contains a...

Le droit des sociétés a été depuis sa création et de façon encore plus prononcée de nos jours, un ensemble de règles stratégiques au service d’entrepreneurs et d’associés désireux d’exceller dans le monde des affaires. Le portage d’actions est l’une des techniques juridiques développées par le droit des sociétés qui manifeste le plus justement le caractère stratégique de cette matière.Le portage d’actions est une convention dite sui generis qui permet de prendre temporairement et indirectement une participation au sein d’une société. Le portage est la convention par laquelle un porteur, généralement une personne morale (société ou organisme financier), convient avec une personne physique ou une autre personne morale, dite donneur d’ordre, qu’il souscrira ou achètera des actions pour le compte de celle-ci à charge pour elle de les lui racheter au terme d’une période déterminée et moyennant un prix convenu par avance.L’utilité de cette convention est double : elle permet, d’une part, de décharger le donneur d’ordre de la propriété des actions pendant une période déterminée en la confiant au porteur, et d’autre part, d’assurer au donneur d’ordre un certain contrôle sur les actions pendant la durée du portage, ainsi que leur appropriation à l’expiration de cette durée. Le portage d’actions connait d’innombrables applications licites et répond ainsi à de nombreuses finalités. En effet, cette convention peut avoir pour but de garantir une certaine discrétion au donneur d’ordres étant donné qu’elle permet de cacher son identité que ce soit dans un but offensif (prise de participation agressive dans une société où le donneur d’ordre serait mal perçu) ou défensif (faire face à une éventuelle prise de contrôle inamicale en confiant à un porteur allié la propriété d’actions constituant un noyau dur). Le portage d’actions permet également l’arbitrage entre deux groupes d’actionnaires, lorsque le capital d’une société est détenu par6moitié par deux groupes d’actionnaires, mais aussi l’appropriation par le porteur d’actions proposées à la vente, en cas de refus d’agrément du cessionnaire et dans l’attente de trouver un substitut à ce dernier. Toutefois, la technique du portage connaît également quelques pratiques douteuses, à la limite de la fraude à la loi qui remettent manifestement en cause ce type de convention. En effet, il a été observé que le portage pouvait être utilisé pour servir à remplir les conditions légales relatives au nombre minimum d’actionnaires, ou pour permettre à un donneur d’ordre qui ne peut avoir la qualité d’actionnaire d’accéder à terme au capital d’une société.La technique du portage d’actions du fait des diverses applications plus ou moins licites qu’elle connait et du fait de son caractère stratégique amène à se poser de nombreuses questions. Les principales problématiques qui ressortent sont, d’une part, celles ayant attrait à l’évolution juridique du mécanisme même du portage et à sa compatibilité avec la qualité et le statut d’associé et, d’autre part, celles ayant attrait au contexte juridique entourant cette technique et au caractère stratégique de l’utilisation de ce type de convention. Enfin, cette thèse sera également l’occasion d’étudier les parallèles existant entre le portage d’actions et la technique de la fiducie. / Summary not transmitted

Anonymity of shareholders and the requierements for their identification This thesis concentrates on the anonymity of shareholders which is currently one of the most discussed aspects of the corporate law. The topicality of this issue was one of the reasons for the selection of this topic. Czech legislation has been criticized both by NGOs and a large part of Czech population for the excessive simplicity of the use of anonymous shares and for owners identification impossibility.. The paper is focused on ways of both hiding the beneficial owner of shares and also shareholders identification. This work is written during the ongoing debate on the abolition of bearer shares, which is considered to be an instrument for corruption or legalization of proceeds from criminal activities, so-called money laundering. Debates on the abolition (or at least reducing) of the shareholders anonymity are being held not only in the Czech Republic. Many countries have already implemented certain instruments in this area. Bearer shares have been canceled without compensations in some countries, , other countries allowed their demeterialized or immobilized form. The aim of this work is to analyze not only valid and effective legislation, but also the legislation enacted in connection with the recodification of private...

This dissertation consists of two essays: the first investigates informed trading in the Chinese stock exchanges, and the second examines the persistency of correlation of currency future prices. For the first essay, using a sample of Chinese firms dual-listed in both the China mainland stock exchange and the Hong Kong stock exchange, I investigate the two types of informed trading - insider trading and trading derived from better analysis in the A-and H-share markets. The results suggest that H-shares have relatively more informed trading based on better analysis. In addition, the results from the firm size regression can also be seen as indirect evidence that larger firms tend to have trading with better analysis and less insider trading. These patterns are also confirmed in the sub-period analysis. However, I find no significant relation between informed trading and the relative pricing of A- and H-shares. For the second essay I examine the dynamic correlation between currency futures prices, focusing on the persistency of correlation of currency prices. Using the Dynamic Conditional Correlation model developed by Engle (2002), this study incorporates time-varying correlations into the analysis. The sample includes eight currency futures traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1999 to 2008 and the U.S. dollar index future. The study finds that the Canadian dollar has the greater persistency while the Brazilian real has the weakest. No less important, the study finds that the time-varying conditional correlation between currency futures and the U.S. dollar futures is influenced by two types of liquidity: price impacts (Amihud illiquidity) and the logarithm of trading volume.

The aim of the Thesis is to determine the influence of technical analysis to the profitability of shares by O2 Telefónica, Komerční banka and ČEZ whan applied to a predeterminated trading model and judge the validity of Efective Markets Theory. It will be also followed up the influence of trading signals of technical indicators on the shape and characteristics of conditional distribution set by those signals. The Crystal Ball was used as the main software tool. This software dispose of all tools necesarry for the analysis. There is also desribed the theoretical background of areas like shares, technical analysis, random quantity distribution, generating of random numbers and other related areas in the Thesis, so the reader who does not understand the problemacy could understand the best.

How to found an enterprise (legal and economic aspects) Abstract The object of this thesis is the founding of an enterprise from legal and economic viewpoint. Entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic evolved a lot since the Velvet revolution, legislatively and in the way entrepreneurs behave on the market. The Czech Republic joining the European Union had a huge impact on entrepreneurship, thanks to the harmonisation of the internal market and even through new types of companies available. The goal of this thesis is to help new entrepreneurs found an enterprise, to choose the correct legal framework and create a business plan. The focus is on saving financial and time costs. In the first part the legislature concerning enterprise in the Czech Republic is presented focusing on effective laws, despite mentioning the legislature before the civil law recodification from 2014. Enterprise, entrepreneur and companies are described in detail in the second part as the basic terms connected to founding an enterprise. The third part is concerned with the economic aspects of founding an enterprise, out of which the business plan is the most important. As a part of the business plan, basic internal and external analysis of an enterprise and basic financing options are presented. The fourth part comprises of the comparison...

Van Rensburg and Robertson (2003a) stated that the CAPM beta has little or no relationship with returns generated by size and price to earnings sorted portfolios. This study intends to demonstrate that a reformulated CAPM beta, estimated using return on equity as opposed to share returns, unravels the size and value premium. The study proves that the “cash-flow” generated beta partially explains the cross-sectional variation in share returns when measured over the long run, specifically when portfolios are sorted on book to market, however the cash flow beta is less successful when attempting to explain the small size premium. The premise of the study is that the cash flow dynamics of share returns eventually dominate the first and second moments and thus result in cash flow based measures of risk and return that should succeed in explaining the cross-sectional variation in share returns. The study makes use of vector autoregressive models in order to examine the short term effect of structural shocks to the cash flow fundamentals of a stock or portfolio through impulse response functions as well as quantifying a long-term relationship between cash flow fundamentals and share returns using a VECM specification. The study further uses fixed effects, random effects and GMM/dynamic panel data cross-sectional regressions in order to examine the ability of the cash flow beta explaining the value and size premium. The results of the study are mixed. The cash flow beta does well in explaining the returns of portfolios sorted on book to market, but fails to do the same with size sorted portfolios. In the cash flow betas favour, it performs far better than the conventionally measured CAPM beta throughout the study.

Two different systems of corporate governance globally coexist - the concentrated ownership system and the dispersed ownership system. The dissertation focuses on the history of companies and large economic entities. Attention is also paid to the relationship between the state and corporations. The importance of the first regulation of joint stock companies is discussed as well. Governance of large corporations is described and analyzed. The presented non-legal reasons for the existence of two systems of corporate governance are also summarized. Particular attention is paid to the legal preconditions for the dispersed ownership. Common law and civil law are compared. The differences in law of corporations (company law) are extensively analyzed - co-determination, fiduciary duties, piercing of corporate veil, board and independent directors. Detailed attention is focused on executive pay (remuneration / compensation).