MAC3703 Assignment 2 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 - DUE 30 September 2025; 100% correct solutions and explanations.

MAC3703 Assignment 2 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 - DUE 30 September 2025; 100% correct solutions and explanations. ASSIGNMENT 02: COMPULSORY FOR YEAR MARK CONTRIBUTION TOTAL MARKS: 80 marks DUE DATE: 30 Sept. 2025 UNIQUE NUMBER: Before attempting this assignment make sure that you have studied Learning Unit 1-15 (in detail and the corresponding study material in the prescribed textbook. QUESTION ONE (60 MARKS) XYZF Ltd is a South African factory shop producing clothing for men and women from the age of 16 upwards. XYZF gets all their materials from ABCD Ltd, a local supplier. There are other local suppliers in the country for the materials used by XYZF Ltd. XYZF does not have its own sewing machines and rents them in from company X. The clothes produced by XYZF Ltd are sold to various clothing wholesalers in South Africa, who then supply the local retailers who physically supply the consumers. XYZF Ltd has its own delivery trucks which delivers the clothes from the factory straight to the wholesalers’ premises. Company Y uses various courier companies to deliver the clothes to the local retailers. XYZF Ltd is competing with All Clothing Limited. Although XYZF Ltd does not supply directly to consumers, the directors believe that XYZF Ltd is creating value for the end user and XYZF Ltd is now considering expanding its business by supplying the clothes directly to the consumer through creating and launching an online retail store. The online retail store will be accessible all over the world. The directors of XYZF Ltd have appointed a project team, led by a project manager, to investigate the feasibility of the expansion being considered. The directors have indicated that they will not be appointing a steering committee for the project instead they will be steering the project themselves. The software supplier will be TNX. The instructions in terms of what the investigation should entail are clearly stated and include additional ecosystem participants that will need to be added to the current ecosystem and their roles in the ecosystem, the features for the online store application to ensure value creation, other extra resources, and their costs, amongst others. The project manager has indicated that he is clueless about project management, however he trusts his management and leadership skills. The project management team is obedient, eager to learn and prefer healthy competition, i.e., compete by performing their tasks well. The project manager’s name is John. Required: A. (i) Identify and explain the roles of at least two business ecosystem participants in the current XYZ Ltd ecosystem, and two in the new ecosystem resulting from the introduction of the online retail store. (6) (ii) Identify and explain at least two features that need to be present for the online store application to satisfy digital customer needs. Your explanation should be specific to XYZ Ltd and clearly indicate the benefits to digital customers. (4) (iii) What would be the effect of introducing the online retail store to XYZ Ltd business value creation? (4) (iv) Assuming that XYZ Ltd profit before tax is R2m (fully taxable), tax rate is 28% and they have a policy of distributing 20% of their profit after tax as a dividend to their shareholders, demonstrate how residual value is captured and