Measurement of financial performance of enterprises and its evaluation belongs to basic identifiers of the overall success of the enterprises in the market. Knowing the indicators representing financial performance related to the dynamic environment, where the enterprises operate, and also related to the ongoing pressure of their surroundings on improvement is a key element by increasing the competitiveness and strengthening the position in the market. Although the usage of nonfinancial indicators is still more often promoted, financial indicators are able to factually and accurately evaluate condition of an enterprise based on its previous development. The aim of this article is evaluation of financial performance of enterprises operating in IT sector based on the setting of financial indicators, which specify their performance in the best way, while operating results of the enterprises are analyzed using chosen financial indicators. Taking the ability of indicators into account, the performance of given enterprises in IT sector is going to be defined in the best possible way.

The aim of this article is to identify substantial factors affecting the motivation of universities’ students to be actively engaged in the education process and define recommendations for the increase of this motivation. As a result, the sustainability of education at universities will be supported, contributing to the increase of the value of human capital of students and, subsequently, to the generation of value for the stakeholder groups in those enterprises where the graduates will be employed. The research hypothesis is focused on the presence of differences in students’ motivation in relation to their gender, study program, and the year of study. To effectively achieve this aim, the analysis, comparison, and the synthesis of the theoretical background was performed, using available sources of secondary data found in the pieces of domestic and foreign professional literature. The pieces of knowledge obtained were supplemented and combined with pieces of information acquired from the questionnaire survey conducted, focusing on the motivation of students of informatics and management at a university in the Slovak Republic. As tools of statistical analysis, tests of independence suitable for nominal categorical data were applied. It was revealed that young people are motivated to study at a university, specifically at the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, mainly by the prospect of better chances in the labor market, the possibility of getting a higher salary, and higher qualification. The motivation to study at a university in order to improve the opportunity of getting employed in the labor market was more frequently perceived by women. Despite the fact that the level of teaching is considered to be high by almost 50% of the students regardless of their gender, study program, or the year of study, their motivation also stems from their expectations related to their future jobs. The students of informatics expect to have a team of friendly colleagues, delightful and stimulating working conditions, and the opportunity to do meaningful work. Among the students of management, meaningful work was replaced by the opportunity for self-fulfillment. When focusing on other factors, the differences based on the gender, study program, or the year of study were not statistically significant. Based on these findings, specific measures for the faculty’s management were proposed.

Enterprises are currently trying to bring new technologies into production and use new procedures and recommendations in various management activities. However, they should not forget to change their approach to the evaluation of the results achieved and focus on the use of modern methods of performance evaluation and prove to apply them in their enterprises. The aim of this paper is to point out several variants of the calculation of Economic value added (EVA) indicator, define the possibilities to apply EVA methods to the conditions of enterprises in the Slovak Republic and the need to adjust data providing financial statements and data for current accounts. Application of economic value added should be able to contribute to changes in the views of the owners and managers of enterprises in the Slovak republic for use not only as financial indicators.

In this paper, we investigate the volatility dynamics of EUR/GBP currency using statistical as well as the neural network approach which is an alternative way for time series modelling and forecasting in economics. The goal of this paper is to provide an alternative and reasonable way in modelling dynamic economic time series. We suggest an alternative approach for forecasting time series with non-constant volatility – we suggest and implement several neural network prediction models; we also use a large number of statistical models as well as different optimization techniques for artificial neural network. After discussing the basics of statistical volatility modelling and the basis of artificial neural networks we perform the experiment on real financial data. We quantify several ARCH and GARCH models; we also implement various RBF neural network prediction models. The comparative analysis of out-of-sample forecasts evaluated using MSE evaluation measures is performed. Finally, we state that suggested neural network models performed almost as good as the standard statistical models and are therefore reasonable and acceptable in economic modelling

Universities as the centres of knowledge play an important role in education and application of the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR). They are not just institutions of higher education and research granting titles but they together educate responsible people with excellent knowledge able to solve questions and problems globally and share their knowledge that the wider community can benefit from. The aim of this article is to show which teaching methods could be used to educate students of the study program Informatics in the field of corporate social responsibility in Slovakia. The success of the CSR implementation, to a large extent, depends on the level of involvement of university teachers and appropriate teaching methods they choose. Corporate social responsibly literacy means, that student will be able to apply basic concepts years later in situations relevant to their professional personal lifeline.

Due to the specificity of transport services that are being performed with an unambiguous impact on the environment and society, all activities of transport enterprises oriented towards the achievement of the sustainability goals are more visible than in the case of other enterprises. Consequently, the growing need for sustainability increases not only the costs of individual transport services but also the total costs of a transport enterprise. Indisputably, the costs affect the pricing, which leads to the final market prices. On the one hand, they can increase the prices, but on the other hand, they decrease the enterprise’s competitiveness and its success in the market at the same time. Even though the cost-based pricing is essential, it is not sufficient under these circumstances. Based on the objectives stated above, the primary aim of this paper is to emphasize that the creation of prices in a transport enterprise must consider the global aspects of the enterprise’s performance as a prerequisite for its competitiveness. The results include proposing several variants of corporate performance measurement that are relevant and supported by a literature review of the current knowledge on the topic, an analysis of internal documents from a particular freight-transport enterprise, and structured interviews with the managers. Subsequently, the model proposed can be used by managers of transport enterprises in their decision-making process.