Purchase Team Quiz

In what year was Computershare founded?

• 1976

• 1978

• 1980

• 1982

Answer explanation

Computershare was founded in 1978, initially to provide computer services to businesses that needed to automate processes. Eventually, the business progressed to providing specialist computer bureau services to Australian share registrars. Over the years the business has expanded significantly into what it is today!

SAYE stands for what?

• Share Allocation Yearly Exemption

• Super Athletic Yoga Elephants

• Stock Allocation Yearly Exercise

• Save as You Earn

Answer explanation

A save as you earn scheme (also known as sharesave scheme) is an arrangement where a company’s employees can set aside some of their salary to buy shares in the company at a discount.

For how long must you hold dividend shares in the SIP before they become tax free?

• One year

• Two years

• Three Years

• Four years

Answer explanation

Per paragraph 67, schedule 2 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003, the holding period for dividend shares in the SIP is 3 years. (See also ETASSUM24770 in HMRC's Employee Tax Advantaged Share Scheme Manual).

Who has worked at Computershare the longest?

• Catherine Heather

• Richard Cartwright

• Julie Magee

• John Nutland

Answer explanation

Shortly before the mass extinction event in which dinosaurs were destroyed by a mountain sized asteroid, Cath joined Computershare.

Organise the share schemes into tax-advantaged versus non-tax advantaged (based on UK / Irish legislation!)

Groups:

(a) Tax-Advantaged

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(b) Not Tax-Advantaged

• PSU

• SAYE

• CSOP

• RSU

• SIP

• LTIP

• APSS

• ESPP

Match the 'Head of' to their pet.

• Catherine Heather

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• Garion Chaffe

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• John Nutland

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• Julie Magee

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• Richard Cartwright

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Rounded to the nearest 1,000 - how many participants (active and leavers) are stored on the database for HSBC?

• 328,000

• 353,000

• 364,000

• 378,000

Between January and September 2023, how many share transfers had been initiated by participants under the CIS model?

• 30,057

• 34,187

• 24,864

• 19,874

What does EBITDA stand for?

• Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Dividends, and Amortisation

• Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortisation

• Earnings Before Income, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortisation

• Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Assets

Answer explanation

A company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (commonly abbreviated EBITDA and pronounced ee-bit-dah) is a measure of a company's profitability of the operating business only, thus before any effects of indebtedness, state-mandated payments (i.e. tax), and costs required to maintain its asset base. By including depreciation and amortization as well as taxes and debt payment costs, EBITDA attempts to represent the cash profit generated by the company's operations. By including depreciation and amortisation as well as taxes and debt payment costs, EBITDA attempts to represent the cash profit generated by the company's operations.

Match the manager with their AI generated image (images have been generated by just using their name and no other prompt or description. I also asked their permission first!)

• Michelle Evans

• 
• Garion Chaffe

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• Yaroslav Romanyets

• 
• Jonathan Gee

• 
• Mariusz Trawinski

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