Agricultural Economics, 2002 (vol. 48), issue 3

Economic efficiency of agricultural enterprises and its evaluation

E. Rosochatecká

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(3):97-101 | DOI: 10.17221/5455-AGRICECON  

Agriculture as a sector of national economy shows a permanent loss (except the year 1995 and 2000). The investment volume and number of workers decreases. The necessary resources for businesses development are not created at the general level. Introducing of new technologies for restructuring appears as problematic from this point of view. The stated results of the sector of agriculture stem from the average data of the monitored set of enterprises collected by the RIAE. Evaluation objectivity of the agricultural enterprises economic results is influenced by the quality of the database and of the used evaluation method. In the contribution, the method...

Regional development as a presumption of general development of society

J. Homolka

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(3):102-105 | DOI: 10.17221/5456-AGRICECON  

The contribution firstly mentions a determination of possible approaches to the problems of regional development. The contribution content is the characteristics and comparison of the regional policy level in the European Union and the CzechRepublic. In the European Union, this policy has developed for a long time and it has been modified to the form which it has at the beginning of the 21st century. In this, it is a continuous process. On the contrary, in the Czech Republic during directive management, regional policy was not formulated and most of decisive processes were centralised. Since the beginning of 90ies, significant changes have taken place...

Searching the proportional level of operating costs - specification of the minimum volume of production

F. Střeleček, P. Kollar

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(3):106-116 | DOI: 10.17221/5457-AGRICECON  

This article concerns the topic of various types of costs and refers to relations between them. It also solves relations between costs and the output in in-kind units, between costs and revenues (in financial units), between the unit price and the sale profit. The article also describes two possibilities how to find the break-even point: one way is to compare the dynamics of revenues and costs, the second one is to compare actual and expected variable costs. The article also suggests the way how to find the break-even point using cost-revenue ratio indicators.

Profitability and risk ratio of financial portfolio

I. Boháčková, L. Svatošová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(3):117-120 | DOI: 10.17221/5458-AGRICECON  

Financial portfolio represents a certain type of investments diversification and hence it issues a possibility how to reduce risk ratio and to ensure a sufficient profitability of financial investment. The paper shows ways of calculation and evaluation of investment possibilities. A base for the determination of the efficiency of portfolio particular parts is a rate of efficiency of particular securities and their weight (representation) in the portfolio. Risk of an investment action is linked to the results of the technical analysis of particular securities and of the mutual dependence among them, resp. of their mutual ability to influence each other....

Czech consumers´ evaluation of choosen meat products

M. Pourová, V. Stehlík

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(3):121-125 | DOI: 10.17221/5459-AGRICECON  

The article summarises the main results of the analysis of the perception of selected meat products in theCzechRepublic (i.e. the following types of salami: Gothai, Famer´s, Tourist, Poličan, chicken ham salami, Hunter´s, pork ham salami and turkey roll). Two factors have been defined on the basis of a composition approach, which influence the evaluation of meat products by Czech consumers during their purchase. The first factor was the perceived quality of the product and the second one was the healthiness factor. It has been found out that the perceived quality of the product has a decisive influence on forming of the preferences of Czech consumers...

Globalisation, human resources and the increase of their potential in relation to sustainable development in regions

R. Krninská

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(3):126-129 | DOI: 10.17221/5460-AGRICECON  

Globalization can be understood as a process changing the very essence of modern human civilization, penetrating all its spheres and currently manifesting itself mainly at the economic level. One-sided profit targeting, often just with short-term efficiency, leads to discontinuity changes and imbalance and not only in the economy. We can see operating at the same time breaks in the rules of nature, particularly in atmosphere protection, and contradictions between economic growth and sustainable development. The worldwide process of globalization is also accompanied by a process of localization. Here it is possible to observe differences between the...

Methodological aspects of an improvement of calculation information system in agricultural companies

J. Pataky

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(3):130-133 | DOI: 10.17221/5461-AGRICECON  

Phenomenalistic data of the development of prime costs in agriculture-oriented companies inSlovakia indicate that they have considerably increased in the main production, intracompany services and the company as a whole. Therefore, the management of a company has to apply an economic approach to cost management. Recommendations to build up a control structure of the cost system in the agricultural primary production are presented and its rational connection with actual costing, which uses algorithms of unconventional calculation methods, is analysed. In the cost system control structure, costs are recommended to be divided in two levels, namely by...

The country population trend in the selected region of the Czech Republic

M. Vosejpková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(3):134-137 | DOI: 10.17221/5462-AGRICECON  

There are 80% municipalities under one thousand inhabitants in the CzechRepublic. The population trend observed in the region ofSouth Bohemia has proved a long-term and gradated depopulation of such small municipalities. While population has fallen in municipalities under one thousand inhabitants, towns and municipalities with more than one thousand inhabitants show the opposite trend. The possibility of changing this trend seems to lay in the state help for small municipalities parallel with the expected change of the situation after the EU accession because it is very probable, that many young families will be looking for the financially more convenient...

After prof. Zdeněk Sokol

T. Doucha

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(3):138 | DOI: 10.17221/5463-AGRICECON  

Globalizace a ekonomický růst

V. Jeníček

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2002, 48(3):139-144 | DOI: 10.17221/5464-AGRICECON