Corporate Performance: A Ratio-Based Approach to Country and Industry Analyses

ISBN-13: 9783319003443 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 194 str.

Julia Koralun-Bere Nicka

Opis

This book presentsthe comparative evaluation of international and industrial factors affecting the financial condition of enterprises. In the theoretical part, the results of previous research on the occurrence of the country and industry effect in the financial health of companies are reviewed. The aim of the empirical study is to determinesuch factors - national or industrial ones - that have a greater impact on the corporate performance in the selected European Union countries.Corporate performance is measured and described with the use of a large setof fundamental ratios.Corporate performance is therefore treatedas a more complex matter influenced by such aspects as profitability, liquidity, working capital and solvency. The book especiallyanalysesthe importance ofnon-public companies of all sizes, which is also rare as current researchfocusesmainly on public companies due tothe data constraints.

Spis treści

Corporate performance interpretation and measuring problems.- Country and industry factors as determinants of corporate performance.- Analysis of the corporate performance diversity in the selected European Union countries.- Cross-industry and cross-country comparative cluster analysis.- Factors affecting corporate performance in countries and industries.

O autorze

Julia Koralun-Bereźnicka is an academic teacher since 2000 and a lecturer at the University of Gdańsk since 2009. She has taught a number of subjects from economics, through accounting management to corporate finance, financial analysis and reasons for corporate failures. She is an author of 2 books and about 40 articles. Her scientific interests focus on the European integration and its impact on the economic diversification of the EU.