Birthday Blues
After going through my ‘Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November’ song for the umpteenth time, I have arrived at this fact: today, being the 31st day of March, constitutes the last day of the month—Ghana’s birth month. Watching Kwame Nkrumah and the rest of the Big...
The contribution of the insurance industry to the Ghanaian economy cannot be overlooked although not noticed by many, whether in the financial space or not. The essence of insurance policy is to bring the insured to the state just before a loss occurred and this is usually appreciated by...
…. a generous ruling or a compliance burden?
The Income Tax Act imposes tax on income from employment, business, or investment. In ascertaining the income from employment, the tax law requires the inclusion of all benefits and gains derived from the employment.
Section 4 (2)(a)(ix) of the Income Tax...
Free trade between countries generates both costs and benefits, and whether or not the net benefits are positive has been a question explored by various empirical literature. The possible costs of free trade include its impact on human physical and mental health.
China’s rise as a large trading partner with...
The Agyapa transaction is financially innovative, first of its kind in the sub region and has great potential of reducing the over reliance on external and domestic borrowing of the country, albeit some legal and financial evaluation concerns of which the President has taken cognisance.
Subsequent to the report of...
Insights into Directorships and the Boardroom
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and/or Managing Director (MD) are the most senior executives within organizations. According the Institute of Directors, the “role of the managing director and chief executive officer are virtually the same with both roles being ultimately responsible for the performance...
“No matter how full the river is, it still wants to grow.” – African proverb
The most intense squabbling in life is not about human rights, or climate change or even the science – religion dispute. These, and all the other controversial debates are subsets of the interplay between nature...
Leading financial technology (FinTech) provider, Zeepay, has taken a major step in its expansion drive and infrastructure investment with the commissioning of its state-of-the-art campus in the Cantonments enclave in Accra.
The move represents another first for the FinTech, after becoming the first indigenous player to be licensed as an...
Barely a year ago, many discussions on the future of work focused on technology and the role that automation is predicted to have on jobs and the workplace. However, when many complex forces are at play, linear predictions are too simplistic, hence the intrusion of the COVID – 19...