The main goal of this thesis is to suggest how Nordic-Systems ApS should develop its competitive advantage. Three objectives are formulated to reach the goal. The first thesis objective is to make situation analysis, which consists of external and internal analysis of the company. Situation...

Global financial crisis has exposed borrowers to substantially increased interest rate risk and motivated them to search for ways to insure against it. Unfortunately, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often do not have access to interest rate derivatives, which leaves the question: how can...

The Thesis deals with the question of competitive advantage of the public relations agencies in Lithuania. The aim of the study is to find the factors that influence competitive advantage of the PR agencies in Lithuania. The other major objective of the work is try to identify the reasons of...

This paper analyses the recently approved Lithuanian profit tax incentive for research and development [R&D] and measures the possible increase in business R&D intensity in the country due to the before mentioned tax incentive. Apart from this, it provides the expert opinion on the importance of...

The evaluation of foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth relation plays important role in creating targeted, economic growth inducing policies. This bachelor thesis investigates the impact of FDI on economic growth in Lithuania. In the framework of endogenous growth theory three...

The main purpose of this work is to analyze currency risk management opportunities in the industrial company “Snaige”. In order to reach this objective some tasks are set during the work. Firstly it is important to reveal the importance of foreign exchange risk management for the companies...

Mutual funds currency risk management is analyzed in this bachelor paper. It aims to analyze hedging by currency forward and options under different hedge ratios and various durations of the contracts. Afterwards the outcome is compared to non-hedging. After comparing hedging on six emerging...

Business cycle is one of the main concept describing an economy and its dynamics. As a young free-market economy Lithuania is also under effect of this phenomenon. Therefore, some consequent uncertainty occurs which market players have to deal with. The main objective of this paperwork is to...

The aim of the study is to verify a hypothesis, whether a company’s financial statement items can be modelled using econometric techniques incorporating accounting and macroeconomic variables. For the modelling and forecasting are selected items, necessary to calculate a company’s free cash...

In this Master‘s Thesis the Baltic Stock Exchange’s (Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian) efficiency is valued for the period of 2004-2009. This thesis aims to evaluate the reaction of Baltic stock exchange to quarterly financial statement announcements. To reach this aim the concept of market...