The article evaluates the development of selected activity indicators in period of years 2004-2011 in Slovak agricultural enterprises. The time horizon represents the period of years after the accession of the Slovak republic into the European Union. From the nature of the agricultural arises its lower activity in comparison with industry. Contrary to other activity indicators which development was worsening during the period, DSO of trade receivables has the improving trend in selected companies in comparison between year 2004 and 2011.
The primary goal of the paper is to state the financial benchmark values for liquidity ratios in Slovak agriculture. Authors measured liquidity with current ratio, quick ratio and cash ratio which are the traditional way of liquidity measurement. Using descriptive statistics authors describe the liquidity performance of more than 1,100 enterprises in each period in 2004–2011. Based on the results authors can conclude that the common recommended values for liquidity ratios cannot be used for agriculture. The overall liquidity in agriculture is much lower and therefore the results presented in this article can be used as a benchmark for individual enterprises comparison.
The primary goal of the paper is to state the development of cash-flow in Slovak agriculture. The observed period covers 11 years, which offers the opportunity to analyze three separate periods: the pre-accession period 2000-2003, the old CAP from 2004-2006 and the current CAP 2007-2010. The data for individual companies - corporations - were obtained from The Research Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics (RIAFE) for the period 2000 – 2010. The research has shown that entering EU and adopting Common agricultural policy had a positive impact on the cash flow from operating activities. We also did identify lower investments (CF from investing activities) since 2009. One of the reasons for that can be the impact of the financial and economic crisis. The impact on net cash flow was a higher volatility.
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