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Key factors of financing small companies in early stages within digital economy services in Visegrad 4 member countries
Amankwaa-Opoku, Walter
This thesis focuses on achieving the objectives of identifying the key factors of efficient financing of small companies active in the digital economy services settled in Visegrad 4 member countries within their early life stage phases. These Visegrad 4 member countries include the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. Many works of literature were reviewed in achieving this objective, these pieces of literature include literature on small companies in Visegrad 4-member countries, financing of small companies in Visegrad 4-member countries, literature on Altman Z-score and other bankruptcy models, and literature on non-financial factors that influence SMEs bankruptcy. The thesis was both qualitative and quantitative in nature and analyses were done on the financial statements and non-financial factors of sampled SMEs in the 4 Visegrad countries. Various analyses were undertaken to arrive at this objective, these analyses include analyzing the descriptive statistics, determining the Correlation Matrix, running the ANOVA test to determine the significance level of the key factors in determining the performance of these SMEs and consequently influencing their financing level and also analyzing selected non-financial factors readily available.
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