The purpose of this study is to investigate the integration of forensic accounting and big data technology frameworks in relation to the mitigation of internal fraud risk in the banking industry. This study employed an explanatory research design involving the use of simulated data to mirror the...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the application of forensic accounting techniques in relation to fraud risk mitigation. This study employed an explanatory research design and a qualitative approach accompanied with a purposive sampling method. A primary data source was devised with a...

This paper examines the sensibility of a proposed monetary union in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The study hypothesizes that the majority of the economies in the SADC region are candidates for a monetary union. We test this hypothesis against one of the prime optimal...

Access to finance is one of the factors influencing economic activities. The current study aimed at determining the role of finance in the South African agro-industrialization relationship. To achieve the study objective, bounds testing, the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) and error...

Despite the large body of work that exists on the impact of exchange rate undervaluation on economic growth, only a mere literature focuses on the potential transmission mechanisms. There are authors who consider the size of the tradable sector as the operative channel through which...

We compute the exchange rate misalignment for a set of emerging economies between 1980 and 2013 using the behavioural equilibrium exchange rate definition. The real equilibrium exchange rate is constructed using a parsimonious model and estimators that are robust to cross-sectional independence...