This study explores the financial performance measurement of South Africa's Top Companies. It aims to find a conclusion on the research problem, that is 'Do South Africa's Top Companies use the available arsenal to measure their financial performance?' Commerce and industry are the cornerstones of the economy of a country. This study purports to contribute to the ways and means of minimising the risk of business failures due to the resultant effects on the economy. The sample comprises of sixty companies. The sampling frame is the first hundred companies of the Financial Mail 200 Top Performers for 2004. The arsenal that is available to measure financial performance is researched in the financial literature. Mainly, this covers ratio analysis and interpretation, and the bankruptcy prediction models. To arrive at a conclusion on the research problem, a research instrument is developed from the host of financial ratios in the literature, including the bankruptcy prediction models. The research instrument comprises of popular ratios that are also found to be 'logical', as well as the ratios that make up the Z-Score bankruptcy prediction model. The instrument is called the Ratio Map and Z-Score and is applied to test the financial strengths/weaknesses of the Top Companies. In addition to the Ratio Map and Z-Score, the measures applied by the Top Companies as 'highlights' are analysed. This is done to determine the extent at which the measures unearth the strengths/weaknesses of the Top Companies. The conclusion drawn is that the Top Companies do not utilise the available arsenal to measure their financial performance. The supporting evidence is that the most frequently applied 'highlights' measures by the Top Companies cover only one area of the many financial fields of a company, that is, share performance. On the other hand, the analyses per Ratio Map and Z-Score have not revealed major material weaknesses in the financial position of the Top Companies. It is proposed that: ïf  More information be given in the notes to the financial statements to facilitate meaningful analysis; and ïf  A follow-up research study be done to assess the trends of the Top Companies. / Business Management / D.Comm. (Business Management)

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Ph.D. Thesis Abstract Piano Concerto in G Minor, op. 33, by Antonín Dvořák - Early and Final Version Critical Edition of the Score // Study about the Origin, the First Printing and the Performance Practice The dissertation is focused on the Concerto for Piano by Antonín Dvořák from 1876 - an outstanding composition not only in the Czech milieu but in all the European context as well - , which was a very long time condemned for its "unsuitable" piano part. The thesis summarizes all existing knowledge of the history of the origins and reception of the Dvořák's Piano Concerto, which is further verified on the basis of written contemporary sources (Dvořák's correspondence and contemporary press, sometimes yet unknown). Distorted and false pieces of information are corrected and supplemented with new findings (relating to the performances, interpreters, arrangements). Thanks to them, the author presents a new sight of the history of the reception of this composition from inception until the beginning of present century. For the first time all musical sources are examined in detail and relations between them studied (autograph with revisions between years 1876-1883, a copy of the score, which Leoš Janáček let made in 1878/9 and materials of the first printing J. Hainauer from 1883). Then author draws attention to...

This study explores the financial performance measurement of South Africa's Top Companies. It aims to find a conclusion on the research problem, that is 'Do South Africa's Top Companies use the available arsenal to measure their financial performance?' Commerce and industry are the cornerstones of the economy of a country. This study purports to contribute to the ways and means of minimising the risk of business failures due to the resultant effects on the economy. The sample comprises of sixty companies. The sampling frame is the first hundred companies of the Financial Mail 200 Top Performers for 2004. The arsenal that is available to measure financial performance is researched in the financial literature. Mainly, this covers ratio analysis and interpretation, and the bankruptcy prediction models. To arrive at a conclusion on the research problem, a research instrument is developed from the host of financial ratios in the literature, including the bankruptcy prediction models. The research instrument comprises of popular ratios that are also found to be 'logical', as well as the ratios that make up the Z-Score bankruptcy prediction model. The instrument is called the Ratio Map and Z-Score and is applied to test the financial strengths/weaknesses of the Top Companies. In addition to the Ratio Map and Z-Score, the measures applied by the Top Companies as 'highlights' are analysed. This is done to determine the extent at which the measures unearth the strengths/weaknesses of the Top Companies. The conclusion drawn is that the Top Companies do not utilise the available arsenal to measure their financial performance. The supporting evidence is that the most frequently applied 'highlights' measures by the Top Companies cover only one area of the many financial fields of a company, that is, share performance. On the other hand, the analyses per Ratio Map and Z-Score have not revealed major material weaknesses in the financial position of the Top Companies. It is proposed that: ïf  More information be given in the notes to the financial statements to facilitate meaningful analysis; and ïf  A follow-up research study be done to assess the trends of the Top Companies. / Business Management / D.Comm. (Business Management)

Komponistinnen, Interpretinnen, Klangkünstlerinnen, Improvisatorinnen, Musikologinnen oder Musiktheoretikerinnen, die während der letzten ungefähr zwei Jahrhunderte in französisch- und deutschsprachigen Gebieten tätig waren: Ihren Aktivitäten war ein Forschungsprojekt mit zehn 2017–2019 in Paris, Leipzig, Berlin und Wien durchgeführten Arbeitstreffen gewidmet. Die drei Bände 12.1–3 der Reihe Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft dokumentieren im Wesentlichen die dort gehaltenen Vorträge. / Women composers, performers, sound artists, improvisers, musicologists and music theorists who have been active in French and German speaking regions over the last two centuries. The research project was dedicated to their activities with ten conferences held in Paris, Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna in 2017-2019. The three volumes 12.1-3 of the series Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft essentially document the lectures held there. / Compositrices, interprètes, artistes sonores, improvisatrices, musicologues ou théoriciennes de la musique qui ont été actives dans les régions francophones et germanophones au cours des deux derniers siècles environ. Le projet de recherche a été consacré à leurs activités, avec dix conférences organisées entre 2017 et 2019 à Paris, Leipzig, Berlin et Vienne. Les trois volumes 12.1-3 de la série Schriften online : Musikwissenschaft documentent les conférences qui y ont été présentées.

Komponistinnen, Interpretinnen, Klangkünstlerinnen, Improvisatorinnen, Musikologinnen oder Musiktheoretikerinnen, die während der letzten ungefähr zwei Jahrhunderte in französisch- und deutschsprachigen Gebieten tätig waren: Ihren Aktivitäten war ein Forschungsprojekt mit zehn 2017–2019 in Paris, Leipzig, Berlin und Wien durchgeführten Arbeitstreffen gewidmet. Die drei Bände 12.1–3 der Reihe Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft dokumentieren im Wesentlichen die dort gehaltenen Vorträge. / Women composers, performers, sound artists, improvisers, musicologists and music theorists who have been active in French and German speaking regions over the last two centuries. The research project was dedicated to their activities with ten conferences held in Paris, Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna in 2017-2019. The three volumes 12.1-3 of the series Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft essentially document the lectures held there. / Compositrices, interprètes, artistes sonores, improvisatrices, musicologues ou théoriciennes de la musique qui ont été actives dans les régions francophones et germanophones au cours des deux derniers siècles environ. Le projet de recherche a été consacré à leurs activités, avec dix conférences organisées entre 2017 et 2019 à Paris, Leipzig, Berlin et Vienne. Les trois volumes 12.1-3 de la série Schriften online : Musikwissenschaft documentent les conférences qui y ont été présentées.

Komponistinnen, Interpretinnen, Klangkünstlerinnen, Improvisatorinnen, Musikologinnen oder Musiktheoretikerinnen, die während der letzten ungefähr zwei Jahrhunderte in französisch- und deutschsprachigen Gebieten tätig waren: Ihren Aktivitäten war ein Forschungsprojekt mit zehn 2017–2019 in Paris, Leipzig, Berlin und Wien durchgeführten Arbeitstreffen gewidmet. Die drei Bände 12.1–3 der Reihe Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft dokumentieren im Wesentlichen die dort gehaltenen Vorträge. / Women composers, performers, sound artists, improvisers, musicologists and music theorists who have been active in French and German speaking regions over the last two centuries. The research project was dedicated to their activities with ten conferences held in Paris, Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna in 2017-2019. The three volumes 12.1-3 of the series Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft essentially document the lectures held there. / Compositrices, interprètes, artistes sonores, improvisatrices, musicologues ou théoriciennes de la musique qui ont été actives dans les régions francophones et germanophones au cours des deux derniers siècles environ. Le projet de recherche a été consacré à leurs activités, avec dix conférences organisées entre 2017 et 2019 à Paris, Leipzig, Berlin et Vienne. Les trois volumes 12.1-3 de la série Schriften online : Musikwissenschaft documentent les conférences qui y ont été présentées.

Komponistinnen, Interpretinnen, Klangkünstlerinnen, Improvisatorinnen, Musikologinnen oder Musiktheoretikerinnen, die während der letzten ungefähr zwei Jahrhunderte in französisch- und deutschsprachigen Gebieten tätig waren: Ihren Aktivitäten war ein Forschungsprojekt mit zehn 2017–2019 in Paris, Leipzig, Berlin und Wien durchgeführten Arbeitstreffen gewidmet. Die drei Bände 12.1–3 der Reihe Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft dokumentieren im Wesentlichen die dort gehaltenen Vorträge. / Women composers, performers, sound artists, improvisers, musicologists and music theorists who have been active in French and German speaking regions over the last two centuries. The research project was dedicated to their activities with ten conferences held in Paris, Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna in 2017-2019. The three volumes 12.1-3 of the series Schriften online: Musikwissenschaft essentially document the lectures held there. / Compositrices, interprètes, artistes sonores, improvisatrices, musicologues ou théoriciennes de la musique qui ont été actives dans les régions francophones et germanophones au cours des deux derniers siècles environ. Le projet de recherche a été consacré à leurs activités, avec dix conférences organisées entre 2017 et 2019 à Paris, Leipzig, Berlin et Vienne. Les trois volumes 12.1-3 de la série Schriften online : Musikwissenschaft documentent les conférences qui y ont été présentées.