Intensification of public transport in urban areas due to increased mobility at regional and national levels, discrepancies among urban areas with same population and lack of statistical data related to performance and quality of public transport services are the main determinants of this paper....

Transport plays a crucial role in economic and social development and its contribution goes beyond what is normally captured in traditional cost-benefit analyses. Transportation investments can have large long-term economic, social and environmental impacts. The European Commission when...

In modern economies, the public authority entrusted to manage the public affairs of the community is the state. In fulfilling their objectives the public decision makers assume a number of tasks according to the doctrines embraced by the government. The government results as an outcome of the...

This paper approaches the subject of levels of value used in business valuation and adjustments (discounts and prime) that enable professional business valuers to relate these in order to determine the value of a business or ownerships interests in a business. Marketability and control over...

Since the start of the European Union Structural Funding Programs 2007-2013, especially those focused on financing investments proposed by private companies, a big change seems to be taken place. Large numbers of companies have applied for grants within these programs and especially for funding...

This study aims to elucidate and to exemplify an important technique for assessing the economic entities, namely the fundamental analysis of the balance sheet, in several significant aspects. The analysis of financial data reported in the balance sheet are, for an economic entity, the basis of a...

Corporate Governance has particular importance and relevance for the good management and governance of the companies. Even the disruption between the owners and the executives has been widely recognised since many decades, the frauds and manipulations we have witnessed in the 90s and later...

This paper addresses a topic of great contemporaneity and of particular importance, namely the extent to which the creation of value is achieved at micro level through the cash flow. Thus, after a brief introduction, there are given short feedbacks on two

In this paper the authors survey capital structure theories, from the start-up point, which is considered Modigliani and Miller’s capital structure irrelevance theorem, to recent theories, such as the pecking order and the market timing theory. For each t

This article is structured as follows: definitions of performance, profit - the main performance indicator and a case study on how the main performance indicators in the case of the company “X” were calculated.