Corporate Performance A Ratio-Based Approach to Country and Industry Analyses [Hardcover]

This book presents?the 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 determine?such 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 set?of fundamental ratios.?Corporate performance is therefore treated?as a more complex matter influenced by such aspects as profitability, liquidity, working capital and solvency. The book especially?analyses?the importance of?non-public companies of all sizes, which is also rare as current research?focuses?mainly on public companies due to?the data constraints.? 

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.

Julia Koralun-Bereznicka is an academic teacher since 2000 and a lecturer at the University of GdaDsk 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.This book presents?the 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 fil#