Objective: The article aims to verify profitability and its determinants in SME service firms. Research Design & Methods: We conducted a critical literature review and analysed empirical data based ...on a linear mixed model. The research sample comprises 1851 SMEs representing the service sector. Findings: An analysis of the determinants of SME profitability in the service sector indicates the significance of such factors as belonging to a given industry, debt levels, asset structure, company size, and financial liquidity. Implications & Recommendations: The financial success of SMEs in the service sector results mainly from belonging to a specific industry. The profitability of a business activity is determined by a given sector’s internal competition, entry and exit barriers, technological advancement, and the structure of the market and business environment. Moreover, the profitability of SME service companies also depends on their size. On the other hand, such variables as indebtedness, asset structure, and financial liquidity negatively impact profitability. Contribution & Value Added: An analysis of SME profitability in the service sector is the first such undertaking in Eastern Europe. It is also true of the verification of profitability determinants in the service sector. The article also empirically verifies the profitability of different activities in the service sector.
Purpose: The main aim of the study is to present and evaluate the essence, the principles of determining (measuring), and the means of presenting the result of Polish State Forests (LP) in financial ...reporting, as well as the presentation of the initial distribution of profit.Methodology/approach: The considerations in the study are contrasted with selected authors from the source literature. The methods of critical analysis and synthesis, inference, and a case study were used. The data for the analyses were collected from the financial and economic reports of LP for 2011–2021 and from the accounts obtained by filing a motion in LP to reuse public sector information.Findings: LP’s revenue has been decreasing since 2018. Approximately 55–56% of LP’s overall spending is related to the costs of the core activity, which is related to the sale of lumber. Since 2018, the share of this spending has diminished. The costs of general management primarily associated with maintaining the Forest Service amount to around 41–42% LP’s total spendings. These costs are structured at diverse levels within the study period. The increase in the percentage contribution of the abovementioned spendings in LP’s total costs has been noted since 2018. From 2011 to 2021, LP made a profit from business activities and it is used to support LP’s assets, provide extra rewards for employees, contribute to the company’s social benefits fund, and for socially useful purposes.Research limitations: There is a lack of comprehensive data on the general distribution of profits from LP and individual forest districts. Additionally, there was a lack of access to data from the respective forest districts. LP did not provide detailed information.Originality/value: The paper fills the gap on information about acquired revenue and incurred costs of managing a sustainable forest economy, including an attempt to delineate a description of the distribution of LP’s profit. The profit-sharing matrix and index are versatile tools that can be used for profit-sharing planning in LP.
The aim of the article is to justify the indicators of the basic monitoring of financial results of trade enterprises — subjects of foreign economic activity. Essential characteristics of such ...notions as the threshold, limiting, optimum value of an indicator are analyzed. There justified the system of indicators for the basic monitoring of financial results of trade enterprises — subjects of foreign economic activity, which is formed taking into account the goals of the economic activity of a trade enterprise as well as the sequence of formation and use of its financial results. For the basic monitoring of financial results of trade enterprises — subjects of foreign economic activity — the use of such indicators as marginal revenue, financial result from operating activities, net financial result, capitalized profit is recommended, and models for calculating their threshold values are presented. The prospect for further research is the justification of the system of indicators for problem monitoring of financial results of trade enterprises.
The article examines the process of formation inventory of the enterprise and determines the optimal volume of commodity resources for sale. A generalization of author’s approaches to the formation ...and evaluation of inventories of the enterprise is carried out. The marketing-logistic approach was applied for the purpose of distribution groups of commodity resources due to the risk of non-fulfillment the order for the supply of goods of the enterprise. In order to ensure an effective process of commodity provision of the enterprises, the costs associated with the formation of inventories are determined. The formalized scheme of the formation commodity provision and the process of optimization inventory of the enterprise is offered. The analysis the structure of the company’s inventory is carried out, the volume of goods turnover is defined, the stocks are grouped for various clustering characteristics. To conduct the study, statistical information was used on commodity resources of the enterprises, statistical methods (grouping, structure analysis, estimation of dynamic series), tools for assessing the efficiency of inventory use, HML-FMR clustering were used. The necessity of using XYZ and ABC analysis is indicated in order to obtain more reliable results and forecast values of the product support of the enterprise. Economic-mathematical modeling is applied and graphically shown the difference in the formation of commodity resources by various features of HML-FMR clustering. The calculations allow the enterprise to determine the optimal amount of commodity resources in accordance with the needs of consumers and their solvent demand, to plan financial resources for the formation of inventories, to develop assortment policy in accordance with demand for products and their implementation. The results of calculations the volume of merchandising of the enterprise, taking into account the HML-FMR clustering affect the formation of final financial performance of the enterprise — income and profits.
Keywords: commodity stocks, financial result, costs, optimization, clustering, enterprise.
JEL Classіfіcatіon C40, C46, L81, P42
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Banks and banking business are exposed to the influence of numerous risks, of which the importance of credit risk management stands out, because credit risk is the only risk that banks are obliged to ...measure, record in accounting and report. Banks monitor credit risk through the segmentation of the credit portfolio according to the level of risk. This paper is focused on research related to the management of the riskiest category of the credit portfolio, for which we will use the term special credit risk (SCR) in this paper.
The article examines some peculiarities of developing an adaptive financial management system at domestic enterprises. It was found out that the management and application of financial resources in a ...market economy is carried out through financial payments. This mechanism is based on the control over production expenses level and their divergence from socially necessary costs. It is noted that budgeting is the main basis for building an adaptive financial management system at an enterprise, which pays due regard to the impact of financial risks and the ways to avert them. Cash flow management cannot but use the scheme for behavioral modeling of the possible outcomes of the cash flows. The development of financial models for assessing and managing financial risks is part of the overall budgeting system at an enterprise. They are a fairly reliable instrument for assessing and managing the entire financial risks system at an enterprise, as they make it possible to assess different levels of risk due to different factors influencing them and to the different levels of risk controllability. To describe the relationship of financial indicators, a multifactor model is proposed, which allows a detailed study of the interdependence of features, the closeness of the relationship between variables, their subordination. It makes it possible to describe the mutual influence of internal and external factors on the total capital efficiency, to take into account changes (variations) in the parameters of this environment, the reaction of financial stability to these deviations. It is concluded that the development of an adaptive financial management system at an enterprise helps to improve the financial performance of the enterprise, provides transparency to the financial management and cash flow and allows the management to take viable solutions and create the most profitable financial plans.