The aim of my thesis was to characterize and analyze chosen aspects of the internal environment of a particular company with an emphasis on financial analysis and to propose possible changes. Fronius Czech Republic Ltd. seeks to further expand its branches. Another branch has been opened in Ostrava. This branch started its operations officially on the 19th May 2011. A positive fact is that all managers of Fronius Czech Republic s.r.o. completed the Management Skills course. The main objective of thematic workshops was to put what managers routinely used in practice, into a broader framework and to show them other perspectives on the manager?s work. Another positive fact is that the Czech branch was the first sales subsidiary in the Fronius group which received ISO 9001:2008 certification, which verifies the quality of management system by the International Organisation for Standarisation (ISO). My thesis contains an analysis of absolute indicators, analysis of financial ratios, calculation of bankruptcy and creditworthy models, product range and services offered characterization, human resources management and SWOT analysis. In the field of financial analysis, the company achieved very good results both in the ratios and in evaluating bankruptcy and creditworthy models. The results were affected by a sharp decline in profit in 2009. I consider the evaluation of financial analysis along with a creditworthy and bankruptcy models in Fronius Company as the main contribution. The analysis in this scope has never been done before in the company. Another benefit is the formulation of a SWOT analysis, especially awareness of weaknesses and threats and the proposition of possible changes for future development.

The aim of the thesis is to analyze the evolution of hedge funds and their regulation, especially in the context of the global financial crisis. The first part focuses on defining the term "hedge fund", then it is compared with another institutional investor, mutual fund. The history and description of basic investment strategies of hedge funds are also analyzed. The second part overhauls the market of hedge funds, including its quantity, assets under management and performance. The last part is mainly devoted to the theoretical aspects of regulation and supervision of hedge funds, it analyzes the legal status of regulation and supervision of these funds in selected countries before the global financial crisis, the AIFM Directive requirements are discussed and their possible implications are analyzed; the AIFM Directive is compared with the Dodd Frank Act's requirements at the end.

The principal theme of this diploma thesis is an evaluation of a financial situation in the building company Subterra a.s. within the period of years 2006 and 2008. After an introductive description of the company and approximation to the problematic, the fundamental financial analysis is realized by using different elementary methods. Based on the proven indicators, the complete interpretation of the results and possible solutions and proposal to its improvement are provided.

"The purpose of this study is to determine the present status of the McKinney school system in regard to the financial ability, the school plant, the teaching staff, and the pupils by making a profound comparison with general practices and statndards set up by accepted authorities and offering constructive criticism and recommendations that are needed, as obviously shown by comparison."--leaf 2

民國八十七年亞洲金融危機引發本土性金融風暴後，集團企業交叉持股在掌握經營權、炒作股價及企業間利益輸送所造成之負面經濟影響，再次成為議題的焦點。在台灣證券管理交易法規中，企業交叉持股行為僅能由母公司代子公司公告窺知一二。國內文獻中對於交叉持股之探討亦偏重法律制度及盈餘管理層面，對於透過交叉持股之資金操縱行為則較少著墨。 有鑒於交叉持股「能載舟亦能覆舟」之經濟重要性，及現行公告實務未能窺知交叉持股行為全貌，本研究嘗試以投資餘額變動頻率異常作為潛在的交叉持股行為代理變數，將民國八十三年至八十八年第三季之台灣上市公司按投資餘額變動之頻繁程度區分為高變動群與低變動群樣本，進行其財務性操縱行為的探討。本研究主要的實證議題有二：（1）投資餘額變動較頻繁之公司其盈餘管理行為是否異於投資餘額變動較不頻繁之公司？及（2）投資餘額變動較頻繁之公司其資金操縱行為是否異於投資餘額變動較不頻繁之公司？ 實證結果顯示，在盈餘管理行為上，高投資變動公司有顯著利用裁決性應計項目操縱盈餘的現象，且此現象在曾發生財務危機的高投資變動公司更為顯著。高投資變動公司在多頭市場時，投資收益顯著較低投資變動公司為大；空頭市場時，兩者在真實盈餘操縱變數上並無顯著差異。在資金操縱方面，高投資變動公司質押成數變動率顯著大於低投資變動公司，且曾發生財務危機的高投資變動公司變動程度更為明顯。此外，高投資變動公司債務活動在多頭時期較低投資變動公司活絡，顯示債務活動活躍是高投資變動公司重要特性之一。基於現行法規實務與資料來源的限制不易直接偵測具經濟實質之負面交叉持股行為，本研究之綜合實證發現高投資變動公司與真實負面交叉持股行為有相當程度的關聯性，是故投資餘額變動頻率異常似乎是研究負面交叉持股公司極為重要的參考指標之一。

The objective of the thesis is to examine and appraise the accounting and taxation aspects of financial leasing in a particular trading company until valid rules of law within the territory of the Czech Republic. All the information gained was elaborated mainly by the combination of text and open excerption methods. Also methods of synthesis and deduction were used. The text of the thesis is joined by charts, model examples and a diagram which illustrates specialization of the leasing within the Czech Republic. Financial leasing is considered as a very flexible instrument for funding of the long term company requisites. Financial leasing is usually translated as a lease which is followed by surrender of a hired object when the period of lease is over. For a leaseholder financial leasing represents a long term commitment, usually a fixed one. The practical section of the thesis is focused on investigation of accounting and taxation aspects and their impact on a business unit. The cost development of financial leasing, bank credit and cash buying is compared among others.

Le travail de recherche décrit dans cette thèse a pour objectif d'accélérer le temps de calcul pour valoriser des instruments financiers complexes, tels des options américaines sur panier de taille réaliste (par exemple de 40 sousjacents), en tirant partie de la puissance de calcul parallèle qu'offrent les accélérateurs graphiques (Graphics Processing Units). Dans ce but, nous partons d'un travail précédent, qui avait distribué l'algorithme de valorisation de J.Picazo, basé sur des simulations de Monte Carlo et l'apprentissage automatique. Nous en proposons une adaptation pour GPU, nous permettant de diviser par 2 le temps de calcul de cette précédente version distribuée sur un cluster de 64 cœurs CPU, expérimentée pour valoriser une option américaine sur 40 actifs. Cependant, le pricing de cette option de taille réaliste nécessite quelques heures de calcul. Nous étendons donc ce premier résultat dans le but de cibler un cluster de calculateurs, hétérogènes, mixant GPUs et CPUs, via OpenCL. Ainsi, nous accélérons fortement le temps de valorisation, même si les entrainements des différentes méthodes de classification expérimentées (AdaBoost, SVM) sont centralisés et constituent donc un point de blocage. Pour y remédier, nous évaluons alors l'utilisation d'une méthode de classification distribuée, basée sur l'utilisation de forêts aléatoires, rendant ainsi notre approche extensible. La dernière partie réutilise ces deux contributions dans le cas de calcul de la Value at Risk d’un portefeuille d'options, sur cluster hybride hétérogène. / The research work described in this thesis aims at speeding up the pricing of complex financial instruments, like an American option on a realistic size basket of assets (e.g. 40) by leveraging the parallel processing power of Graphics Processing Units. To this aim, we start from a previous research work that distributed the pricing algorithm based on Monte Carlo simulation and machine learning proposed by J. Picazo. We propose an adaptation of this distributed algorithm to take advantage of a single GPU. This allows us to get performances using one single GPU comparable to those measured using a 64 cores cluster for pricing a 40-assets basket American option. Still, on this realistic-size option, the pricing requires a handful of hours. Then we extend this first contribution in order to tackle a cluster of heterogeneous devices, both GPUs and CPUs programmed in OpenCL, at once. Doing this, we are able to drastically accelerate the option pricing time, even if the various classification methods we experiment with (AdaBoost, SVM) constitute a performance bottleneck. So, we consider instead an alternate, distributable approach, based upon Random Forests which allow our approach to become more scalable. The last part reuses these two contributions to tackle the Value at Risk evaluation of a complete portfolio of financial instruments, on a heterogeneous cluster of GPUs and CPUs.

The master thesis is focused on impact assessment of business share purchase in order to enlarge consolidation group to the concern economical situation. Prior to economical situation evaluation, overall situation of the original concern is thoroughly analysed, value of new subsidiary company is determined, the most suitable consolidation method is chosen and new consolidated financial statement is compiled.

This diploma thesis is aimed at the firm’s value estimation by using income-based valuation approach. The theoretical concepts and methods of valuation are introduced in the first part of the thesis. The second part is focused on the concrete firm’s value estimation. It includes strategic analysis, financial analysis and SWOT analysis. The firm’s value is estimated at 31. 12. 2013 by using Discounted cash flow method.

The master´s thesis deals with the economic and strategic analysis in selected company. The aim is to identify risks that arise from the analyzes and suggest measures that will lead to the elimination of identified risks.