Strategie finansowania przedsiębiorstw handlowych w warunkach spowolnienia gospodarczego
Strategies of Financing Trade Enterprises under the Conditions of Economic Slowdown

Summary/Abstract: In the article, the focus is made on an analysis of changes in the strategies of financing trade enterprises operating in Poland in 2008-2011. The main purpose was to assess whether the economic slowdown, experienced by the Polish economy in the period surveyed, has caused definite results in the strategies of financing trade enterprises. The article is of the research nature; there are used in it the methods of assessment of the financial data available in the CSO studies. In the article’s theoretical plane, there are indicated the selected but also applicable in the business practice strategies of enterprise financing. In the empirical plane of the article, the achieved results of analyses of the financial data were confronted with the theoretical assumptions. Based on these evaluations, one may formulate the conclusion that trade enterprises’ activities in Poland are based on the use of offensive financial strategies. They allow, on the one hand, gaining benefits in the form of high rate of return on the capital employed by owners, optimising the average weighted cost of capital invested, while, on the other hand, they may cause emergence of problems with retention of a relevant level of solvency and berries in the area of acquisition of additional sources of financing for enterprise development. They also require adequate managerial abilities in the sphere of steering flows of funds what in the practice of trade enterprises’ functioning is not so obvious.

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