finance

Eat n lick goes digital

ZIMBABWE’S fastest growing fast food chain, Eat n Lick, has introduced a new state-of-the-art self-service system that allows customers to make orders online. Tsitsi Musabayana, Eat n lick’s managing director, said the new system will allow customers to place orders without waiting in queues. “The new system will not only help our clients to observe…

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Dawn Properties revenue declines

DAWN Properties Limited’s (Dawn) revenue for the five months to May 30, 2020 declined 11 percent to $36,9 million from the same period last year. Updating shareholders at an annual general meeting, Dawn said the decline was largely due to its exposure to the hospitality industry as hotels were forced to close due to the…

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Property valuation challenges emerge

ZIMBABWE’S currency alterations have created property valuation challenges amid indications reporting firms are encountering difficulties translating values across currencies and time. This piles on the trouble created by the Harare administration’s monetary policy gyrations ― chiefly its premature re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar ― which have not only rendered financial statements meaningless, but also landed…

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ECONOMICS & MARKET INTELLIGENCE: The headline effect of negative news

Readers may have seen some alarming news articles on various media quoting Zanu PF’s acting spokesman Patrick Chinamasa that Old Mutual Limited “will be ejected from the financial system”. The news flow demonstrates that Zimbabwe still has real issues to solve given that it has attracted confusion since the statement lacks clarity on what an…

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TAX MATTERS: Recoverability of bad debts

Businesses are facing significant and unprecedented challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and economic backlash. One of the main challenges is that both businesses and clients have not only fallen into debt but have defaulted on payments and are currently unable to timeously settle their debts. Bad debts or irrecoverable debts are one of the…

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Covid-19 intensifies Zimbabwe’s jobs bloodbath

ZIMBABWE is shedding jobs at an unprecedented rate due to the country’s long-standing economic crisis and the devastating effects of Covid-19, experts say. This comes as the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has also warned that nearly half of the world’s workforce is at risk of losing their jobs due to the global coronavirus pandemic. The…

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Inflation kills off craving for TBs

LOCAL investors continue to shun government securities with low yields due to rising inflation, market experts have said. A fortnight ago, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s plans to raise $500 million to fund Covid-19 pandemic expenditure hit a snag after it got total bids amounting to $170 million, and only allotted $70 million for…

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Fuel sector exposes gvt ‘fibs’ on dollarisation

THE fuel sector is leading Zimbabwe’s re-dollarisation charge, with ever more retailers across the country now preferring to be paid in foreign currency for their goods and services. This comes as American dollar-priced fuel is increasingly readily available — with petrol and diesel charged in the ill-fated local currency as scarce as hens’ teeth —…

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$60bn insurance sector exposure on ZSE

THE Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) is engaging authorities on the recent suspension of trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) to protect the industry’s $60 billion exposure on the market. This comes as a regional think-tank Renaissance Capital has warned that Zimbabwe’s decision to close its stock exchange risks upending plans to start a…

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‘Government scapegoating is counterproductive’

…as ‘attacks’ on business typify hostile government attitude towards private capital THE ruling Zanu PF party’s blame-game antics are compromising the rule of law in Zimbabwe and driving the economy further aground by bludgeoning country perception, experts have said. It comes as government’s “anti-business policies” have intensified, with Zanu PF this week demanding that Old…

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