ENGLISH ABSTRACT: To date, there has been significant research completed on the topic of corporate financial distress. Two pioneering researchers in the field of predicting financial distress was Beaver in 1966 and Altman in 1968. More recent research, based on companies listed on the JSE has...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since packaging materials comprise a substantial percentage, namely 35% of the entire inputcost on a fruit farm, the four largest fruit producers in the Western Cape decided in 1988 toerect their own corrugated cardboard plant at Worcester, namely A P L Cartons.The driving...

ENGLISH SUMMARY: The purpose of this research is to test the rationale of corporate downsizing asa method of promoting long-term profitability in South African companies. Thisstudy is similar to that conducted by Pallian & Shalhoub (2002: 436-447) onUS-based companies.The sample consists of 58...