Small and medium enterprises currently represent the major part of economic activities throughout the world. In Albania, they represent the largest proportion of all types of enterprises, providing a lot of opportunities for employment. Mechanisms of internal control are a tool and a way of...

Government around the world, particularly in emerging economies such as South Africa, have recognised the socio-economic benefits Small and Medium -sized Enterprises (SMEs) hold. Despite this recognition and support, SME failure rates are still unsustainably high. For SMEs to survive, innovation...

Our paper is a review of latest assessments upon the country sustainability focusing mainly on the environmental issue (tough some of the sustainability reports are approaching also aging, competitiveness, governmental finance, food etc.). We are also discussing some of the rankings comparing...

This paper aims to identify and quantify different means of improving performance management in the public sector by examining the reporting practices of local governments. It emphasizes the public interest in reporting and the need to provide relevant and meaningful information to stakeholders....

Over time, the woman has been confined by culture and nature to a second class role behind man. In the economy arena, she is seen as playing the supportive roles for the sustenance of the social status quo but in a very restricted mode which have little direct impact on local or national...

This study usesRichards and Laughlin’s (1980) Cash Conversion Cycle theory to investigate theimpact of working capital management efficiency and its separate components onthe profitability of a sample of 75 non-financial firms listed on theJohannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Panel data...

Every individual should have savings for the old age and the future uncertainties. However as all individuals come from different backgrounds and thus all of them cannot be expected to have knowledge of finance and investment concepts. In such a situation the best investment avenue available is...

The commitment of academics staffs towards students’ academic performance has been a topic of intense interest during the last decades. Most of the applied research have employed a first order and Rasch model analysis which manifest variables that serve as indicators of the trait level at each...

The development of metropolitan areas is a natural process of urban expansion, achieved through exurbanisation and suburbanisation, whereby urban functions extend into the rural periurban environment. The expansion of the concept of the urban metropolitan area to second tier urban areas...

The article deals with neighborhood ties to European Union countries in terms of graph theory. It is determined the minimum distance between states and the consequences, in terms of minimum distance, of leaving the European Union by one country or another.