The aim of this paper is to evaluate the financial performance of telecommunications companies with the help self-organising maps. A total of 88 companies is evaluated and benchmarked on the basis of seven key ratios, calculated for five consecutive years 1995-99. To conduct benchmarking with several financial key figures in a changing business environment is difficult and time consuming for to...

The purpose of this article is to review the results of research papers conducted in the area of foreign ownership impact on company's performance and to highlight the specifics of this linkage in the environment of transition economies. Several authors have documented greater efficiency of private companies compared to state-owned. According to different studies, an alternative option for tran...

This paper presents a model for an insurance company that controls its risk and is allowed to invest in a financial market with just two assets a risk free asset and a stock. The financial reserve of this company is modelled as an Ito process with positive drift and constant diffusion coefficient. While the diffusion coefficient can be interpreted as the risk exposure, the drift can be understo...

Large volumes of online business news provide an opportunity to explore various aspects of companies. A news story pertaining to a company often cites other companies. Using such company citations we construct an intercompany network, employ social network analysis techniques to identify a set of attributes from the network structure, and feed the attributes to machine learning methods to predi...

The gap between the value of the company in the accounting and financial books and its real market value is growing more and more. This difference represents the effect of intellectual capital that arises in the company in various forms. His cleavage in three types is the most widely used: human capital, organizational capital and customer capital. These different forms of intellectual capital ...