Analysis Model of the Company's Patrimonial Elements
This paper reveals the mist significant aspects pertaining to the financial analysis on a company’s patrimony. Among the items analyzed, the authors focused on the structure of assets and liabilities, the financial structure of capitals. The analysis model is based mostly on ratios, and the results are presented in an easily readable manner, with extensive use of charts and tables.
Theories And Approaches Regarding The Cost – Benefit Analysis Role And Principles
Cost-benefit analysis, used for the first time by the French engineer Jules Dupuit, is a practical method for measuring costs and benefits of investment projects. Costs and benefits arise both today and the future, and for that reason, in order to be aggregated and brought into comparison, it is essential that all are expressed in a common measurement unit, money, and discounted at a certain moment in time. If aggregation and discounting are simple exercises of algebra, choosing the discounting rate and converting some non-monetary costs and benefits into monetary equivalent, such as the time saved or the human lives saved, represent complex calculations and intense analysis, making use of other academic fields.
Entrepreneurship in Europe
This article focuses on the changes in attitude and venture capital provision that the author believes are necessary to rekindle the spirit of entrepreneurship in Europe. The article goes on to discuss technology clusters and the role of stock markets. It then describes the way the Cambridge-based Amadeus venture capital company sets about the venture capital process. It concludes with a plea for entrepreneurship centres to be set up in each university and for some changes in government policy.