This book presents the comparative evaluation of international and industrial factors affecting the financial condition of enterprises. In the theoretical part, the results of previous research on the occurrence of the country and industry effect in the financial health of companies are reviewed. The aim of the empirical study is to determine such factors – national or industrial ones – that have a greater impact on the corporate performance in the selected European Union countries. Corporate performance is measured and described with the use of a large set of fundamental ratios. Corporate performance is therefore treated as a more complex matter influenced by such aspects as profitability, liquidity, working capital and solvency. The book especially analyses the importance of non-public companies of all sizes, which is also rare as current research focuses mainly on public companies due to the data constraints.  ​

Julia Koralun-Bereźnicka is an academic teacher since 2000 and a lecturer at the University of Gdańsk since 2009. She has taught a number of subjects from economics, through accounting management to corporate finance, financial analysis and reasons for corporate failures. She is an author of 2 books and about 40 articles. Her scientific interests focus on the European integration and its impact on the economic diversification of the EU.