The provision of shelter is a basic need and in Australia there has been a history of home ownership. However recent economic growth and rising construction costs, particularly over the past decade, has placed home ownership out of reach for some. In response to increased affordability...

In the age of knowledge, intangible assets have a higher strategic importance than corporal assets. It was found that the market value of the entity is greater than its carrying amount, the difference being due to intangible items: Market Value - Book Value = Intangible Assets Intangible assets...

In the age of knowledge, intangible assets have a higher strategic importance than corporal assets. It was found that the market value of the entity is greater than its carrying amount, the difference being due to intangible items: Market Value - Book Value = Intangible Assets Intangible assets...

Accounting for the extractive industries has been a contested issue for decades as a result of a choice of different methods of costing available and the economic impacts of these methods on companies? financial results. When the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) embarked on its...

Creativity has become a key to economic competitiveness. However, the formation of creative labor, the social organization of production, and the operational mechanisms of the creative industry remain understudied. Existing studies overemphasize the role of information technology in the creative...

Our main working hypothesis is that the restructuring and catching up of Central and Eastern European economies (CEEEs) enterprises are faster through their integration into international networks than through independent strategies. For instance, the Polish or Hungarian car industry, not to...

In spite of the major expense of improving the Eastern European telecommunications infrastructure - - hundreds of billions of dollars over at least a decade - - academic networks provide an interim capability for researchers that is quite promising. Since Western European nations have been...

This paper focuses on the development of reference interest rates in the Czech Republic after the currency crisis of May 1997 and covers the period to the years 2002/2003 (that is to the time just before the country’s entry into the European Union) when the currency exchange of the Czech...

This paper outlines the changing financial scene in The Czech Republic, which is following the global pattern of institutional investors taking over the role of commercial banks as relationship banking is gradually giving way to transaction-driven banking. Investment-grade companies have become...

In spite of the major expense of improving the Eastern European telecommunications infrastructure - - hundreds of billions of dollars over at least a decade - - academic networks provide an interim capability for researchers that is quite promising. Since Western European nations have been...