Everyone who visits Italy will praise it, but despite everything you hear about this magnificent country you’ll be amazed, surprised and delighted from you moment you arrive. Travelling through beautiful Italy (called the bel paese) will be an experience you’ll never forget. Effortless living Italy is the home of great artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da…
Dell Latitude 7240 Business meets portability. The newly released Dell Latitude 7000 range are designed for business, with security and manageability any business would appreciate. IT professionals will love the reliability and security baked right in, and users will enjoy the light, thin and easy-on-the-eye form factor. The Dell Latitude 7240 is a light, sleek…
New products and services are created to enable people to do tasks better than they previously could, or to do things that they couldn’t before. But innovations also carry risks. Just how risky an innovation proves to be depends in great measure on the choices people make in using it. Ask yourself this: If you…
Let’s start with a question. You’re offered the chance to take part in a little bet. A fair coin will be tossed. If you win, you’ll receive R100. If you lose, you need to give up R100. Would you take up the bet? Let’s change it up a bit. You still need to pay R100…
Risk management can feel like going to war: there are threats on the horizon and it could take substantial investments of time, resources and effort to achieve victory. Some of the threats your business will face are bad debts, theft or fraud, loss or theft of data and natural disasters. The good news is your…
Information technology is one of the most valuable yet often least understood assets in a business. It takes an insightful enterprise to recognise the benefits of information technology and use it to drive stakeholder value. Moreover, successfully managing information technology in a business also means understanding and mitigating the risks associated with it, including increased…
The release of the definitive International Integrated Reporting <IR> Framework in December 2013 has cleared the confusion about what an integrated report actually is and how companies should implement it. Until now many ‘integrated reports’ were anything but except in title, with one survey concluding that only 30% of so-called integrated reports truly made the…
Australia is rich in fossil fuels. Vast reserves of black and brown coal drove the development of coal-fired power stations which have supplied power for many years to Australian industry at comparatively low prices, creating a cost advantage that attracted energy-intensive industries and supported the growth of manufacturing. This story is similar to South Africa’s…
By using earnings per share as a measure of financial performance, do we interpret it appropriately? Pundits in the know and other users of financial statements perhaps not that well informed have been touting earnings per share (EPS) as the holy grail of financial performance for a very long time. The requirement for companies in…
Risk management can feel like going to war: there are threats on the horizon and it could take substantial investments of time, resources and effort to achieve victory. Some of the threats your business will face are bad debts, theft or fraud, loss or theft of data and natural disasters. The good news is your…