Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1, University of Applied Sciences Kufstein Tirol, course: Bachelorseminar II, language: English, abstract: The business cycle is a cyclical phenomenon and major concern for all sorts of businesses. The short run alternation between contractions and expansions hurts companies across industries forcing many firms to drastic measures in order to survive. There are companies however that overcome these downturns with a tendency to subsequently outperform their competitors. It is assumed that a good financial positioning of a company right at the outset of a downturn is linked to a higher probability of subsequent industry-peer outperformance. By using ratio based industry-level analyses the author tests the hypothesis that IT companies with a high Financial Flexibility - at the outset of the Great Recession - were subsequently able to perform significantly better than their industry peer. Whereas Financial Flexibility refers to a company's positioning in terms of current liquidity and its ability to secure new cash through operations or leverage.
Знаменитая на весь мир консалтинговая компания из Британии Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) опубликовала свой ежегодный рейтинг лучших ВУЗов мира. Рейтинг составляется по методике QS, которая признана в мире одной из самых передовых и объективных. В актуальный рейтинг вошло в общей сложности 863 высших учебных заведения.
Рейтинг ВУЗов мира 2012-2013 от Times Higher Education
3 октября вышел новый рейтинг ВУЗов мира на 2012-2013 годы по версии одного из самых авторитетных изданий - приложения газеты Times - Times Higher Education. Согласно опубликованному рейтингу, ни один ВУЗ России не вошел в число 200 лучших, что произошло уже второй раз подряд.