Electronic Payment Systems (EPS) are gaining popularity all over the world. An EPS consists of many component technologies which facilitate cashless payments for services. The focus of this thesis is on device associated technologies that an end customer uses to initiate an e-payment for a particular service via a Payment Service Provider (PSP). A technology solution in an EPS is developed by a Payment Solution Developer (PSD). The market between a PSP and a PSD is a B2B market. A PSD must understand and develop that combination of technology and service which will successfully diffuse. The success of a PSP therefore depends a lot on what a PSD develops. A theoretical framework to measure diffusion of e-payment technologies, services and their combinations in the B2B market was developed and empirically assessed in this thesis. Two concepts namely concept of breadth and concept of spread were defined. The concept of breadth and spread were applied to e-payment technologies, services and their combinations. The derived concepts namely technology breadth, service breadth, technology spread, service spread and technology-service combination spread were defined and measured. We then extended the concept of breadth to understand utilization of technologies and services within an EPS. Set theory was used to describe the framework. A sample of 45 EPS was compiled from various sources. This secondary data of EPS consisted of 8 technologies and 16 services. The 8 technologies are Interactive Voice Response (IVR), text messaging using Short Messaging Service (SMS), text messaging using Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), mobile internet using Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), mobile application, Near Field Communication (NFC), Personal Computer (PC) internet and smart card. The 16 services are retail shopping payment, banking, health payment, insurance payment, mobile bill payment, mobile recharge, money transfer, movie ticket booking, parking fee payment, restaurant payment, payment at sports/swimming club, toll payment, transportation payment, tuition fee payment, utilities payment, and vending machine payment. Three categories of PSPs namely core payment service providers (n=18), non-core payment service providers (n=12) and merchants (n=15) were identified from the 45 EPS. Binomial proportion test was used to verify the concepts of breadth and spread. Spearman correlation was used to find correlation between the concept of breadth and spread of technologies and services. The 45 EPS in the sample were then grouped under three sub groups based on the categories of their PSPs. Binomial tests were used within each sub group to understand the preferences of technologies, services and their combinations by each category. The results verified that certain e-payment technologies possess more breadth i.e., capability to deliver many e-payment services and certain e-payment services possess more breadth i.e., delivered by many e-payment technologies. A difference in diffusion i.e., spread of technologies, services and their combinations were observed. Details of these differences are discussed in this thesis for technologies, services and their combinations. A positive correlation was observed between the concept of breadth and spread. Specialization of technologies, services and their combinations within categories of PSPs were observed. Variations in utilization of technologies and services by EPS were observed.

Thesis deals with leasing transactions in view of czech accounting and tax legislation and in view of International financial reporting standards. Emphasis is placed on classification of leases as a finance lease and operating lease and especially on different impact of finance lease transactions on the financial statements of lessor and lessee prepared in accordance with czech legislation and IAS/IFRS.

Diploma thesis deals with the US external economic balance, particularly balance of payments, international investment position, indebtness and the dollar exchange rate. The first part includes the theoretical approach to external economic balance and related terms. Furthermore, I focus on the status of current and financial account of the United States in detail. Here I evaluate the balances of BOP parts and search for the explanation of this situation. I also focus on international investment position of the United States, the development of foreign direct investment and debt indicators. The work also contains a detailed analysis of the U.S. balance of payments for the years 2004 - 2008. The last section is a treatise on the history of the dollar, development of its rate, expected future developments and relationships with U.S. major trading partner, China.

The master thesis emphasizes the economic relations between China and the United States. It gives an overview and theoretical background support on the significance of contemporary the economic relations between countries in today`s globalized era. Secondly, it analyzes how the theoretical background of economic and trade relations affect the empirical case study of the economic relations between China and the USA. The goal is to show how the economic and trade relations between China and the United States influence each other`s economies and what is the effect of such relations on the economic performance of both countries. More precisely, in order to answer the question above, the master thesis deals with complex analysis in regard of historical perspective concerning the economic relations between these countries, their ongoing cooperation in terms of balance of payments, the current and potential issues what both countries face and the existing challenges for the future. In order to complete the analysis and answer the research question, list of various sources will be used, starting from academic journals, books, literature reviews, reports from the World Trade Organization (hereafter WTO), reports from the respective countries on their economic progress, data available from the ministries of trade of respective countries and other sources related to the analysis of the contemporary economic and trade relations between the countries participating in the global economy.

The main objective of this thesis is to provide an overview of developments and issues in the context of the European debt crisis. Euro as a central aspect of Economic and Monetary Union has a major impact on convergence and existing systemic problems of the EU. The first chapter provides a brief description of the european integration since World War II in the context of Economic and Monetary union. The second chapter defines the concept of nominal and real convergence and dedicates closer to the Maastricht convergence criteria and the Stability and Growth Pact, which was the result of efforts towards closer fiscal coordination. Moreover, it summarizes the main causes of the financial crisis and subsequently analyses its impact on the EUR/USD currency pair. The fourth chapter focuses on the systemic weaknesses of the eurozone with an emphasis on the imbalance in the current account balance of payments. The last chapter summarizes the approaches to solving the debt crisis assuming that current steps taken by eurozone leaders in cooperation with the governments of intebted members fail.

The diploma thesis deals with the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU on the Czech agrarian sector. The aim of the thesis is to determine whether the EU accession and the application of the CAP had a positive or negative influence on Czech agriculture. First, it is explained the creation of the CAP, its goals and principles. The next chapter of the thesis describes the development and reform of the CAP which influenced the Czech Republic after EU accession. Other parts are already engaged in agricultural policy of the Czech Republic after 1989 and the agricultural policy before and after EU accession. There are describes the problems that needed remove before the EU accession. And this helped to the fluent introduction of the CAP. The fourth part discusses the support provided by the EU, which has been the greatest benefit of EU accession, and divides them into direct payments and rural development. In the last chapter is analyzed the impact of the CAP on a farm AGROSPOL, Malý Bor a. s. and is trying to find the positives and negatives of EU accession.

O pagamento por serviços ambientais é um instrumento econômico que tem sido utilizado para incentivar a adoção de usos da terra e/ou de recursos naturais que melhorem ou aumentem o fornecimento de serviços ambientais, tais como conservação da biodiversidade e seqüestro de carbono. Seu uso é recente e os efeitos que as mudanças de uso da terra podem trazer às rendas e ao desenvolvimento das populações-alvo ainda são poucos conhecidos. Nesta pesquisa, procurou-se avaliar, de forma prospectiva, o impacto que usos da terra capazes de fornecer maiores níveis de serviços ambientais podem ter sobre a geração de renda das unidades de produção e sobre a sustentabilidade econômica, social e ambiental da agricultura familiar, na Amazônia Brasileira. Também, foi avaliado se o nível de pagamento previsto pelo Programa Proambiente, uma política pública em implementação que pretende pagar aos agricultores por serviços ambientais fornecidos, pode facilitar a adoção desses usos da terra. Para isso, foram simulados cenários com uso da terra tradicional (sistema de \"derrubae- queima\"), utilizando-se dados coletados em pesquisa com agricultores familiares pertencentes ao Pólo de Desenvolvimento Rio Capim do Programa Proambiente, no Nordeste Paraense; e com usos da terra alternativos, como agricultura sem uso do fogo, implantação de sistemas agroflorestais, enriquecimento de capoeira, apicultura e manejo de açaizal. Através da análise de custos de oportunidade e de indicadores de sustentabilidade econômica, social e ambiental, os cenários mostraram que compensar os agricultores pelos custos de oportunidade do desmatamento evitado, do ponto de vista social e econômico, pode ser menos promissor do que propiciar condições para que os agricultores familiares realizem a transição para usos da terra alternativos que forneçam menores níveis de serviços ambientais, em comparação ao desmatamento evitado, mas sejam mais benéficos em termos econômicos e sociais, promovendo o desenvolvimento da agricultura familiar de forma mais sustentável. / Payment for environmental services is an economic instrument that has been used to encourage the adoption of land and/or natural resource uses that improve or enhance the provision of environmental services, such as biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration. Its use is recent and the effects that changes in land use can bring to income and development of the target populations are still little known. In this research, it has been assessed, in a prospective way, the impact that land uses which are capable of providing higher levels of environmental services may have on the generation of income for households and on the economic, social and environmental sustainability of family farming, in the Brazilian Amazon, and if the level of payment provided by Proambiente Program, a public policy in its implementation phase, whose goal is to pay farmers for environmental services, can facilitate the adoption of these land uses. In view of these purposes, scenarios were simulated utilizing the traditional land use (slash-and-burn agriculture), based on data collection obtained among family farmers from Northeast of Para State, as well as with alternative land uses, such as firefree fallow management, agroforestry, fallow vegetation enrichment, beekeeping and \"açai\" management. Through analysis of costs of opportunity and economic, social and environmental sustainability indicators, the scenarios showed that to compensate farmers for the opportunity cost of avoided deforestation, may be less promising from a economic and social point of view, than providing conditions for that the family farmers make the transition to alternative land uses that provide lower levels of environmental services, in comparison to avoided deforestation, but may be more beneficial in economic and social terms, given that they foster the development of family farming in a more sustainable way.

El siguiente artículo propone explicar las principales variables de comportamiento de los clientes pymes y consumidores que podrían ser predictores de morosidad de acuerdo a la valoración de las diversas fuentes especializadas. Para lograrlo, en un primer momento se explican las variables predictoras de la morosidad para los clientes de consumo, como lo son el comportamiento dentro de su ciclo de vida, la educación financiera que puede recibir en su entorno familiar, su nivel educativo, características demográficas, factores emocionales, entre otros. Por otro lado, se explica que, en el caso de clientes pyme, las variables que se consideran son la experiencia previa, las variables cualitativas y cuantitativas que determinan su capacidad de pago, la evaluación crediticia por parte de las entidades financieras y la importancia de las garantías en la toma de decisión de otorgar un crédito para este tipo de clientes. La importancia de este artículo radica en revisar cuáles son los principales indicadores utilizados en la identificación oportuna del riesgo en los clientes para la mejor toma de decisiones, lo que contribuye a la cartera con clientes más saludables. Adicionalmente, busca brindar conocimiento e información, tanto a las instituciones financieras como a aquellos agentes financieros que tienen que ver con colocaciones de crédito, interesados en identificar conductas que puedan inducir al incumplimiento en ambos tipos de clientes. / The following article proposes to explain the main behavior variables of SME clients and consumers that could be predictors of delinquency according to the valuation of the various specialized sources. To achieve this, at first, the predictive variables of delinquency for consumer customers are explained, such as behavior within their life cycle, the financial education they can receive in their family environment, their educational level, demographic characteristics, and emotional factors, among others. On the other hand, it is explained that, in the case of SME clients, the variables considered are previous experience, qualitative and quantitative variables that determine their payment capacity, credit evaluation by financial institutions and the importance of the guarantees in the decision-making of guarantying a loan for this type of clients. The importance of this paper lies in reviewing the main indicators used in the timely identification of client risk for better decision making, which contributes to a portfolio with healthier clients. In addition, it seeks to provide knowledge and information, both to financial institutions and to those financial agents involved in credit placements, interested in identifying behaviors that may induce default in both types of clients. / Trabajo de Suficiencia Profesional

The master's thesis deals with encoding payment data invoices into QR codes in accordance with the by square standard. The SAP system along with a process of encoding data into QR codes and by square PAY standard is introduced in my thesis. In compliance with the standard function module is designed for the SAP system which is in the ABAB language, using Smartforms form allowing the QR codes to generate the invoice. The module is then subjected to testing. The results are evaluated in conclusion of the master's thesis and a description of potential further development is assessed as a final step.

Because of a growing number of services offered by the Masaryk University to its students, and because of the ever-changing legislation of the Czech Republic, a need for an implementation of a new information system, capable of processing payments for university’s services, has arisen. The goal of this thesis is to analyse the current condition of payments at the university, consider users’ demands, choose an appropriate information system and project its implementation. It is utterly necessary to keep the costs of implementation at acceptable levels and above all the system must be able to be operated without the need for new employees. The proposed system must be universal because of various natures of services offered and goods sold, as well as it must be efficient. It is required that the system will be able to handle the growth of both number of clients and provided services.