The Importance of Financial Management in Small and Mediumsized Entrepreneurship
The Importance of Financial Management in Small and Mediumsized Entrepreneurship

Author(s): Veronika Svatošová
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Accounting - Business Administration
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: small and medium-sized entrepreneurship; financial management; financial strategy; financial analysis; methods of statistical induction;
Summary/Abstract: Current practice and researches show that the decisive factor of long-term success is the prioritization of effective financial management. However, enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, often confuse the principles of financial management with functioning accounting. Underestimating the role of financial management may be the reason for the impossibility of developing small and mediumsized enterprises. The main objective of this paper is therefore to evaluate the importance of financial management that SMEs attribute to the financial management aspects on their long-term development. The partial objective of the paper is to identify whether SMEs evaluating financial management as more important are more financially successful than SMEs evaluating financial management as less important. The fulfilment of the main and partial objective of the paper is fulfilled through methods of personal polling, selected methods of financial analysis and selected methods of statistical induction. The research is carried out on a selected sample of small and medium-sized enterprises based on selected restrictive criteria. The research has shown that small and medium-sized enterprises are undermining the importance of financial management and do not attribute the same strategic importance of financial management on their business development. At the same time, it was confirmed that SMEs evaluating financial management as more important are more financially successful (higher volume of assets, ROE and EAT) than SMEs that do not do so.

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