According to the Framework of the IASB, profit is a frequently used measure of an entity's performance. Yet in developing its standards, the IASB has not paid much attention to the presentation of profit, but primarily concentrated on recognition and measurement requirements. As a consequence,...

The European welfare regimes face two sets of challenges. One internal, specific for the welfare state itself, and the other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing gap between the rigid welfare state design and flexible...

When the source of external capital for Continental European firms is examined, debt markets have historically supplied a much larger percentage of the external capital than equity markets, and firms rely much more on bank debt than bonds for their external funds. In this environment banks have...

This article analyses the relationship between the main antecedents of and imports/GNP ratio as a subtle reflector of macro-level consumer ethnocentrism (CE). We constructed a model that reflects the macro level ethnocentrism in a domestic country. This ratio expresses the economy openness of a...

The increasing globalization and cross-cultural interaction increases the importance of the realization of the successful intercultural cooperation. In this context, the identification of friction points and the improvement of the potentials of intercultural communication is an important...