The thesis deals with the evaluation of investment projects. The first two parts of the work are aimed theoretically. The first part determines which of the methods of assessing the effectiveness suits main aim of the business the best. Part two explains which criterion of the methods based on cash flows leads to better investment decisions. The third part is devoted to the specifics of the retail sector in the forecast cash flows. The last part of the thesis deals with the evaluation of Tescos specific real investment project. The aim is to assess whether Tesco evaluated project effectiveness correctly and used appropriate criteria and assumptions. followed by an analysis of deviations between planned and real values.

The thesis titled Tesco Potraviny online e-shop contents detailed customer experience based description of functionalities of the Tesco e-shop and some other e-shops competing on the on-line groceries market. Available methods of multi-criteria decision making allowed a platform for comparative analysis of functionalities of Potraviny online, Potraviny domů and Z-market shopping websites. The customer satisfaction survey had been carried out via a multiple choice questionnaire. A proposal for optimalization of the Tesco e-shop, this being the aim of the thesis, has been put together thanks to evaluation of both data collected and multi-criteria analysis being applied. The thesis also provides some subject related information about the Tesco company and looks into how the e-commerce evolves.

This diploma thesis focuses on competitiveness of the Czech Republic compared with other states of the Visegrad Group and Slovenia. The paper is divided into three parts. The first part is aimed at specification of the term competitiveness and the criticism of the concept of national competitiveness. The second part focuses on measuring of competitiveness. The last part analyzes competitiveness of the Czech Republic and other observed states.

The diploma thesis deals with possible reaction of life insurance companies to legislative decree, in which the European Union forbid, within the equality of sexes, to use sex as a factor for assessing different amount of premium between men and women. Using analysis of the product pricing of five important insurance companies helps to show, which risks (and to which extent) this change covers. Because there will be limited possibility to decide on the premium amount according to one of the most important parameters, it can be expected, this decision will have significant influence on the whole insurance market and it will indicate direction of life insurance to the future. Decision about business strategy is influenced also by other entries, such as position of the insurance company, its business network etc. As the most likely direction of market development is here considered new or more distinctive segmentation of clients, hence there are, on accessible data, using the hypothesis about the relative frequency, tested propositions of the new criteria, which could help determine more fair premium.

Diploma thesis focuses on Data Discovery tools, which have been growing in im-portance in the Business Intelligence (BI) field during the last few years. Increasing number of companies of all sizes tend to include them in their BI environments. The main goal of this thesis is to compare QlikView, Tableau and PowerPivot using a defined set of criteria. The comparison is based on development of human resources report, which was modeled on a real life banking sector business case. The main goal is supported by a number of minor goals, namely: analysis of existing comparisons, definition of a new set of criteria, basic description of the compared platforms, and documentation of the case study. The text can be divided into two major parts. The theoretical part describes elemental BI architecture, discusses In-memory databases and data visualisation in context of a BI solution, and analyses existing comparisons of Data Discovery tools and BI platforms in general. Eight different comparisons are analysed in total, including reports of consulting companies and diploma theses. The applied part of the thesis builds upon the previous analysis and defines comparison criteria divided into five groups: Data import, transformation and storage; Data analysis and presentation; Operations criteria; User friendliness and support; Business criteria. The subsequent chapter describes the selected platforms, their brief history, component architecture, available editions and licensing. Case study chapter documents development of the report in each of the platforms and pinpoints their pros and cons. The final chapter applies the defined set of criteria and uses it to compare the selected Data Discovery platforms to fulfil the main goal of this thesis. The results are presented both numerically, utilising the weighted sum model, and verbally. The contribution of the thesis lies in the transparent confrontation of three Data Discovery tools, in the definition of a new set of comparison criteria, and in the documentation of the practical testing. The thesis offers an indirect answer to the question: "Which analytical tool should we use to supplement our existing BI solution?"

The final thesis deals with impact of financial crisis on public finance in Czech Republic. The aim of my thesis is to give to a reader an idea about impact of financial crisis on the state budget of CR, especially on expenditure and revenue side. Except of this, according to the Maastricht criteria, it is evaluated effect on debt of public budget and deficit of state budget. At the thesis are used sources mostly from CNB, MFCR and OECD. In theoretical part is defined the term "financial crisis", described causes of origin of the financial crisis and analysis impact of financial crisis on the world markets. Next part of the thesis is devoted to examination and analyzes of impacts of financial crisis on public budget, particularly on revenues, expenditures, debt and deficit of the budgets. At last part of the diploma thesis we can find adequate recommendations and summary of knowledge, which emerged from provided analysis.

This thesis aims on comparison of rapid development frameworks Nette and Grails. Main objective of this paper is achieved by brief description of both languages (PHP, Groovy) and frameworks. Next is defined relatively complex set of criteria for comparison itself. Frameworks are then compared based on this set. Last part is development of the identical application on both platforms, thanks to which the practicle comparison may be done. The main contribution of this work is in comprehensive comparison of platforms Nette (PHP) and Grails (Groovy), which may be used for making decision about which platform to take for a development of new application. Comparision of course may serve like an information about that what developer should keep an eye on, what can make life easier or harder especially in contrast with that what offers concurent platform.

Each czech crown is important for the budget of every household, particularly in the times of crisis. Saving can be achieved by selecting an appropriate insurance product, which is also the concern of this thesis. Because there exists a plenty of insurance companies on the czech market and majority of them offers several insurance products for each kind of insurance, it is not simple to choose the optimal product. On top of that, these insurance products differ not only in their price, but in various properties and additional insurance as well, which makes the task even more difficult. The most suitable insurance product can be found with multiple-criteria decision making, that was amended by the demand function in this thesis. The goal of the demand function is to advise those interested in the insurance whether they should or should not be insured under given circumstances. The thesis is designed so that it could be used for decisions of anybody interested in insurance on any insurance product.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to select a suitable task management tool with regards to specific requirements of BNM, s.r.o. company. The list of requirements was compiled based on author's work experience at the particular company. Last but not least the thesis is focused on a solution of identified issues while the theoretical part explains the teamwork theory and team collaboration. Further chapters introduce SaaS oriented software distribution models. The final tool selection is done using a scoring method and WSA (Weighted Sum Product) method belonging to the multi-criteria decision methods category. The decision making proces is further described with a special attention to the selected tool - Asana. None of the considered tools was excluded due to a non-fulfilment of the selection criteria. The main contribution of the thesis is a comparison and evaluation of available task management tools and a selection of a best tool for the one particular company.

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Dissertation (M Eng (Mining Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Mining Engineering / unrestricted