Private Equity & Venture Capital in Central and Eastern Europe Ondrej Ptacek Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague Abstract: Private equity and venture capital may contribute significantly to the growth of national economies through financing firms with high growth potential,...

Venture capital is one of most important alternative sources of capital for early stage of enterprise development. It is largely acknowledged that there occurs a market gap in European venture capital markets as there are much more companies in search for an investor than that actually obtain...

Regional financial performance could influence the attitude of shareholders and of the investors. It is important as it provides information about the entities that act in the area and about the factors, qualitative: like auditor type or quantitative such as individual financial elements that...

Several accounting and corporate scandals such as the collapse of Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, and Parmalat have shaken the business world over the last decade. After numerous studies, it is concluded that the main reason of this scandals have been especially the unethical conduct of...

This paper discusses the results of the research problem evaluating equity in accounting. In principle, equity is a differential value, the difference of assets and liabilities and its value is derived from these elements, for each individual component of which the fair value is determined....

Accounting, as a universal information and control system has a long history, widely recognized theoretical achievements and unchallenged practical values is evolving, which indicates development. Further development of accounting, however, depends largely upon trends, opportunities and...

The objective of this research was to study the Guideline for Cost Reduction Using Activity Based Costing for PST Concrete Company Limited. Data was collected from the corporate database such as the structure, job description, quality manual and interviews of executives and workers as well as...

Culture may be defined as ‘the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another’. Each human group shares its own social norms, consisting of common characteristics, such as a value system which is adopted by the majority of constituents....

As a result of globalization, the financial relationships have increased between countries, markets have became integrated, investors have an opportunity to make profitable investments which will bring highest return wherever they want and also internet banking and electronic banking...

The range of information for the effective management of the enterprise is increasingly exceeding the competences of persons employed in the economic entities and thus it becomes necessary to use outside specialized services. In the financial sphere, this is due to situations such as the one...