Enterprises Financial Performance in a Globalized World

Abstract

World globalization has a significant impact on the financial performance and financial health of enterprises. The aim of the paper is to analyse and compare the financial performance of selected enterprises under the conditions of globalization. Paper will work with six selected enterprises from the IT sector, which represents one of the fastest growing sectors in the globalized world. Each of them will be from the Slovak Republic. As input data will be used their financial statements during years 2015-2018. These data will be obtained from the Amadeus database - a database of comparable financial information for public and private companies across Europe. The methods of financial-economic analysis will be used to analyse these data. Especially, the paper will be work with selected financial ratios from analysing of liquidity, profitability, indebtedness, and activity. The theoretical part of the paper will contain a literature review and historical development of financial performance assessment and theoretical aspects of enterprise financial performance. The practical part will contain the application of selected methods of financial-economic analysis in the database of enterprises. Paper findings brings evaluation of financial performance of enterprises in IT sector under the conditions of globalized world.