In this article is analyzed duration as a measure of interest risk of bonds. We study significant factors which influence on highness of duration and also price chance of bonds. We discuss different ways to calculate duration and also we try to show its importance to management of bonds portfolio.

This paper surveys the regulatory response to the global financial crisis with an emphasis on the regulation of the proprietary trading by banks with the speculative investment instruments. We discuss not only changes in the US regulation, but we also focus on the implementation of the Vickers...

A research task, the results of which have been summarized in the article, solved a partial issue of the venture capital and tested an assumption on higher frequency of the growth of the quantity “employee efficiency” compared to the frequency of the growth of the number of employees working...

Churning is one of the unethical practices used by brokers while trading in a customer’s account. It consists in an excessive trading in a customer’s account that is disadvantageous for the client. This technique is described in more details in the field of non-leverage financial...

More attention has been paid lately to small and medium companies as they represent more than 95% of all business subjects of the national economy of each country. The European Union is pursuing activities in order to reduce costs for those companies, related to fulfilling of administrative...

Equity of a limited liability company or a joint stock company is mainly composed of contributions of shareholders, retained earnings or funds from revaluation of assets at fair value. The revaluation of assets and liabilities at fair value is substantial if the company has carried out a merger...

Among the most frequent transactions realized between related entities included in a group are sales of goods, provision of services, lending, sales of securities and other financial assets. Consolidation adjustments leading to eliminations of these transactions realized e.g. between parent and...

Description of three various approaches to allocate income tax expense from financial statements of a subsidiary to financial statements according to the requirement of its parent company in case of the financial statements of a subsidiary used in the preparation of consolidated financial...

From the 16th through 18th September 2009, the Department of Management Accounting held an international conference. Topics discussed were aimed on performance management, conceptual questions and practical experience. These topics are very frequent subject of interest of the researchers through...

The article is devoted to Frank Donaldson Brown who is author of very frequent used model of decomposition return on investment (assets) and return on equity. First part describes his successful career of manager in E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and General Motors Corporation. Second part...