The Role of Information for Recognising Business Opportunities

• Authors: Andreja Skerbinjek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Managers need a lot of knowledge and information to make decisions and recognize business opportunities. They can acquire this knowledge and information in different ways. Accounting information, particularly information relating to the creditworthiness of business partners and competitors, is important. Such information, which can contain non-accounting information, is often derived from annual reports. The fastest and cheapest way of accessing information is via the Internet. Because searching for information about different businesses on their Web sites can be time consuming, a quicker, more efficient option is to access this information on databases that contain useful information relating to the majority of businesses in the country. In this paper, we discuss the importance of knowledge and information for recognizing business opportunities. We also analyze the appropriateness of accounting information available from five of the most widely used databases concerning Slovene and Croatian businesses, for estimating the creditworthiness of businesses.

Keywords

EN

business opportunities; knowledge; accounting information; creditworthiness information; databases; business partners; competitors; annual reports; appropriate information; reporting agencies

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 144-152

Dates

published

2008-07-01

online

2008-12-12

Contributors

author

Andreja Skerbinjek

• Ekonomsko-poslovna fakulteta Maribor, Univerza v Mariboru, Razlagova 14, 2000 Maribor

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-008-0016-4