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influenced the education sector. A high occurrence of gender intolerance and gender violence greatly impacts the responsibility of teachers in the South African context as well as the learning experience of South African learners. According to a study by KPMG, an international finance company, domestic and gender based violence is high across all racial and economic sections of population in South Africa (Oliphant, 2015). This means that most learners, regardless of class, are confronted with…

However, recent studies on involvement of women in leadership roles portray a pathetic picture of gender equality. Research is focused on understanding perspectives of male employees towards female employees. A study conducted by KPMG, to understand the viewpoints of senior management personnel in context of women in leadership roles, revealed that 60% of these personnel believed that women are equally capable in taking strategic decisions to their male counterparts . Today women…

Sons Saraf. Firstly, S. R. Sons Saraf should define the value it will gain by implementing ERM which is risk mitigation for reducing vulnerability from the new risks identified in this study of the gold trading industry. According to a report by KPMG International Cooperative (2013) 47 percent of the organizations felt that it was essential for risk management to add value to the overall business. The value which ERMCF will create for S. R. Sons Saraf is that it will help them in becoming more…

Presentation Rationale Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to persuade my audience that businesses can benefit from moving services and infrastructure to cloud based computing platforms. I want to portray that businesses will have less staff to maintain and much lower technology costs are incurred from technology purchases and replacement cycles, by not housing hardware on premises. This also benefits them by having lower application downtime due to resources spread redundantly across…

1. The issue of auditor liability is detrimental to the profession and requires serious examination by regulators and lawmakers alike. Any one of the Big 4 could easily collapse should the full amount of any one of their lawsuits be awarded. Auditor liability becomes an even more poignant issue if new auditing standards are enacted that permit ranges of balances on the financial statements. This would highlight the inherent limitations of financial reporting. As a profession, we need to…

Ice land is a stable democracy, with a high standard of living, this country has low unemployment, and extremely low government debt. They provided clean energy, food production, fishery’s, with a quota system to manage them. Iceland has good healthcare, good education, clean air, and doesn’t have much crime. It’s ultimately a good place for families to live. They had almost end of history status, but in 2000 Iceland’s government began a policy of deregulation that later had terrible…

This concept is a metaphor, which uses the image of a wheel with a core component (the hub) and many sub-components (the spokes). Together, the hub and spokes form a whole that can progress forward as one unit. The hub-and-spoke distribution paradigm (or model or network) is a system of connections arranged like a chariot wheel, in which all traffic moves along spokes connected to the hub at the center. The model is commonly used in industry, in particular in transport, telecommunications and…

construction industry. In adapting to differentiation focus through product development strategy, marketing professionals should have sufficient skills, attitudes and behaviors to be successful in the future. According to the recent report published by KPMG and the London Chamber of commerce and industry (LCCI), approximately 20% more construction managers, surveyors, electricians, etc. required futuristic knowledge and thinking style to face the drastic change in the construction industry.…

multinational partners throughout the supply chain (Cruz, 2013). Furthermore, company executives are requesting real-time data on supply versus demand across all tiers of the supply chain - as a means of enhancing customer service, while maximizing profits (KPMG, 2013). As a result, organizations may seek the services of an industry subject matter expert, knowledgeable in the field of sustainable purchasing and supply. OPITO is an organization that provides support to the oil and gas industry…

negative effects on both retailers and consumers after the UK's vote to leave the European Union. Because of the unpredictability of the future, retailers are reluctant to determine the follow-up plan, meanwhile, consumers also have negative attitudes (KPMG,…