Agricultural Economics, 2003 (vol. 49), issue 8

Identification and development of communicative capabilities in agromanagers

J. Višňovský, Z. Sojková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(8):347-351 | DOI: 10.17221/5411-AGRICECON  

A high level of communicative capabilities as an integral part of social skills in managers is an essential prerequisite of success in managerial position. The paper points out an opportunity of quantifying the level of communicative capabilities, as well as the way of delimiting deficiencies in communication and planning the process of development of communicative capabilities. The testing was done on a sample of 230 students of the Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, i.e. in the future agromanagers.

SWOT analysis of Slovak farmers in the pre-accession period to the EU

P. Bielik

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(8):352-356 | DOI: 10.17221/5412-AGRICECON  

In the framework of Slovakia entering into the European Union, there was done a PHARE-ACE survey in years 1999-2000. The name of this survey was "Micro-economic analysis of farming households restructuring in pre-accession period to the EU". The survey was finished in 2002. This survey was done in two regions of Slovakia, characterized by different natural conditions, production and economic conditions. This project was aiming not only at private farmers but also at other legal entities producing agricultural products. The monitored group consisted of 412 private farmers, farming in average 43.2 ha of agricultural land. Most of them are farming on...

Managerial accounting as a source of information for product cost management in managerial information systems

M. Kučera, E. Škorecová, P. Szovics

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(8):357-360 | DOI: 10.17221/5413-AGRICECON  

This paper is focused on: (1) Managerial accounting analysis as a source of information provided for product costs management (mainly from the point of view of exploitation of budgeting and costing in selected companies in agriculture), (2) Possibilities of integration and information processing for product cost management, provided by managerial accounting in the framework of managerial information system of the company.

Innovation management as a tool of qualitative changes in the food processing industry

E. Horská, I. Ubrežiová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(8):361-364 | DOI: 10.17221/5414-AGRICECON  

The paper deals with theoretical and practical aspects of the innovation process as well as its final results and impact on qualitative level of the supply in the market with food products. From this point of view, we consider an innovation process as an alternative approach how to reach competitive advantage. The paper also points at several possibilities how to manage innovation process in order to create a new product with certain features of competitiveness. There follows from the research that the innovation process is not only the question of new product development but it is also the question of technological approach, new markets entering as...

Economic software - information support of product cost management

A. Látečková, E. Škorecová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(8):365-368 | DOI: 10.17221/5415-AGRICECON  

Adequate product cost economic management is not possible at present without economic software application. Based on the analysis of the current state of enterprise information systems in agriculture, we define basic methods of automatic processing of economic trials and this on the enterprise management level and in-plant level. For product cost management enhancement, we recommend managerial information system application, which introduces extension of enterprise information system and allow real time cost analyse with multidimensional disintegration. We also introduce requirements that economic software suitable for information management needs...

The state and development of financial structure in agricultural co-operatives

Ž. Hacherová, R. Hulík, I. Pribilovičová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(8):369-374 | DOI: 10.17221/5416-AGRICECON  

The main idea of the paper is to evaluate the state and development of financial structure of selected agricultural co-operatives in accounting periods from 1994 till 2001. Assets financial stability constitutes an ability of an enterprise to create and balance an accurate relation between assets and their financial sources. The results of the research work document a positive tendency in financial structure in favour of equity capital (Table 1). On the other hand, there have been problems with borrowed capital mainly with the liabilities from business relation. An increasing level of earnings can be assessed positively as well as the participation...

Technical and scale efficiency of corporate farms in Slovakia

P. Fandel

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(8):375-384 | DOI: 10.17221/5417-AGRICECON  

The paper presents results of the analysis of technical and scale efficiency of 1 147 Slovak corporate farms (agricultural co-operatives and commercial farming companies) in 2000. The objective of the analysis was to examine efficiency differences among four size groups of farms. In the analysis, partial performance measures as well as complex efficiency measures - technical efficiency and scale efficiency - have been used. A nonparametric DEA approach has been applied to estimate technical efficiency measures. Significance of the impact of the farm size on efficiency measures has been tested by ANOVA. Analysis results show that from the aspect of...

Qualitative reproduction of agrarian management in the specific entrepreneurial environment

V. Gozora

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(8):385-390 | DOI: 10.17221/5418-AGRICECON  

Agro-commodities position in international trade

A. Podolák, R. Serenčéš

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(8):391-395 | DOI: 10.17221/5419-AGRICECON  

M. Kučera, J. Štefánek, J. Cvečko: Information Systems in Agriculture

A. Látečková, E. Škorecová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(8):396 | DOI: 10.17221/5420-AGRICECON