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Analýza vývoje finanční výkonnosti podniků v České republice
Analysis of the Development of Financial Efficiency of Enterprises in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Jaroslav Sedláček
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Ekonomický ústav SAV a Prognostický ústav SAV
Keywords: financial efficiency of enterprises; return on assets; return on equity; factors of growth; macroeconomic policy

Summary/Abstract: The financial efficiency of the Czech companies in the period 1996 – 2005, mea-sured by return on capital and revenues did not develop very favourably, until the year 2000, when things changed to favourable development. This article examines the factors that influenced this development and indicates the ways pointing to improvement. The analyses showed that substantial share on a crea-tion of economic value added in the average Czech industrial company has macroeconomic policy, launched in the areas of the price of loan capital and of legal entity income tax. The accelerator of the growth of financial efficiency of the enterprises will be internal factors disregarded in this analysis, that include the new products and technologies, which are conductive to decrease the share of costs on revenues.

  • Issue Year: 55/2007
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 3-18
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Czech