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CURRENT ASSETS STRUCTURE AND EXPLORATION OF BUSINESS IN LATVIA

2012

In order to ensure the financial sustainability of companies under current economic conditions successful management of current assets is crucial. In practice it is quite often observed that the decisions of current assets management in companies are made in the short-term aspects not making analysis. The aim of the article is to explore and analyse the structure of current assets and their indicators in business in Latvia. In order to reach the aim the author solves the following tasks in the research: to explore and analyse the structure of current assets, its changes and trends in the companies of Latvia; to perform calculations and analysis of the indicators characterizing the effective…

FinanceActuarial scienceReturn on assetsCurrent ratiobusiness.industryWorking capitalEconomicsAssets under managementFixed assetBalance sheetWeighted average return on assetsbusinessCurrent assetEuropean Integration Studies
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Leveraging tangible and intangible assets by using a possible firm competitiveness index

2012

More and more, in order to achieve global competitiveness, firms need to develop and apply unique and dynamic competitiveness models. With this paper, we propose an index that measures firm competitiveness by taking into consideration some tangible and intangible assets. This index demonstrates the fact that a firm is highly competitive as long as its managers are able to mix the tangible and intangible assets in the most effective and efficient manner; therefore, a firm can get the same score of competitiveness by using different combinations of assets and by giving different importance coefficients to the tangible and intangible assets.

FinanceEconomics and EconometricsIndex (economics)Return on assetsbusiness.industryOrder (business)Assets under managementWeighted average return on assetsBusiness and International ManagementbusinessBook valueIndustrial organizationGlobal Business and Economics Review
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Vertical integration and profitability of the agrifood industry in an economic crisis context

2015

<p>In a setting of economic and financial crisis, most companies experienced a reduction in their profitability. Thus, our study allows us to identify vertical integration strategies developed by companies to overcome the crisis. This paper is aimed at unveiling the determining factors of the profitability of Spanish agrifood firms, depending on whether they are backwards vertically integrated or not. In order to attain our objective, we implemented a first difference regression model. The main contributions of the article lie in the incorporation of a variable that distinguishes integrated firms from the rest and the separate analysis of the two groups of firms. The results suggest t…

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