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The paper presents execution of a debtor’s bank account and the factors which, according to the author, influence directly its effectiveness. Despite the fact that the legislator seemingly has included a complete solution of this issue in the Code of Civil Proceedings, in the light of practical experience, the issue is more complicated and the solutions stated in the regulations cause serious trouble...
The present and future challenges of commercial air transport industry require maintaining growth trends in air traffic and at the same time easing congestion in the skies without compromising high safety standards. This all leads to natural evolution of the aircraft cockpit environment. The progress starts now with implementation of headup displays, airport moving maps, interactive electronic checklists,...
From the objective point of view, safety of a banking facility is nothing more than organized opposition against any threats caused by human actions, force of nature as well as shortcomings in the civilization and threats in the bank continuity as a whole and individual elements of its material and non-material structure. The basic determinant of such approach is to maintain management continuity...
In the opinion of general public Polish commercial banks earn too much from their activities as compared to the contributions they pay to the state budget. The banking sector is a very important part of the Polish economy and the dynamics of assets belonging to financial institutions within the last 25 years were from two to three times igher than the dynamics of Polish GDP . Thus, development of...
The aim of the paper is to present results of research on social and expert perception of Military Police in the Slovak Republic. In addition to the research results the paper also features detailed description of the Slovak internal security system including all its formations, history and modern structure.
The information about a business coming from the accounting system has got an important decision-making impact on both internal and external receivers. The information should be reliable and internationally comparable, hence the need to harmonize the legislation in this area is currently one of the basic challenges of accounting. This paper discusses the process of harmonisation and standardisation...
The paper is focused on the consequences of the amendment of the Penal Code provisions relating to the penalties, providing a theoretical background for the problems of penalties considered as a part of the Penal Code as well as indicating the current problems of judicial practice in that respect. Especially, the author focuses on the legislator’s assumptions, namely the introduction of the primacy...
At present great emphasis is continually being placed on security in local government units. One of possibilities for providing security for local communities is municipality police. Municipality police fulfils tasks while ensuring order in a city and protecting its residents. The paper presents a comparison of investments into security in the largest Polish, Czech and Slovak cities of the Euroregion...
This paper aims at presenting some contradictions that can be found in the contemporary theoretical approach to the issue of accounting. Accounting has changed the systemic perception of economic phenomena into the process related one. This may be manifested in using current value to assess fixed asset component, which results in distortions in the informative system of accounting, thus encouraging...
The financial crisis in the first decade of this century made economists, politicians and financial institutions realize the need for changes, especially in the area of supervision over markets. It should take place both at the micro and macro scale. Globalization processes force governments to cooperate on an international scale to avoid the socalled “domino effect”. A lot of households, which should...
In recent years, the idea of non-financial information has been gaining more and more popularity. Its meaning in the decision-making process has been underlined by the European Parliament. To provide users of financial statements with access to the non-financial data, Directive 2014/95/UE was proposed to be implemented into national legislation systems. The aim of the paper is to examine whether the...
A simple equation is considered whose empirical analysis could confirm – or reject – the validity of Thirlwall’s Law. Autoregressive Distributed Lags (Bounds) approach is used to establish the empirical adequacy of the Law. The analysis, working with data for 58 countries and covering the years 1960-2012, suggests that the Law may not hold for the decisive majority of countries considered.
The third sector consists of social, private and non-profit organizations. Most of non-governmental organizations carry out socially useful tasks. Those organizations have different organizational and legal forms and different scopes and ways of activities. The aim of the paper is to show different sources of financing of NGOs` activities.
This work is the first out of the series of three papers devoted to the estimation of value of intellectual capital of a given socio-economic area: voivodeship, municipality, country, region, etc. The concept of this estimation is based on the assumption that value of any socio-economic region, for its residents, is the amount of income that can be gained by locating their activities in the area they...
The aim of the paper is to discuss different options for qualification of computer games into appropriate category of copyright. The qualification is essential due to considerable differences between various protection regimes which emphasizes practical aspect of the issue. Difficulty in classification of computer games results from their specific structure which consists of software (computer programme)...
The need to obtain information regarding credit rating of entities, both public and private was the reason for rating agencies development. A worldwide rating market is characterised by a dominance of the largest international agencies, including: Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch. Rating is one of the tools increasing the competiveness of a local government unit. The purpose of this study...
Under the Constitution of Poland, everyone shall be equal before the law. It means that each citizen shall have the right to be treated equally by the public authorities and no one can be discriminated against for any reason whatsoever. Moreover, in accordance with the Constitution of Poland everyone shall comply with his responsibilities and public duties, including the payment of taxes, as specified...
In the contemporary information era countries compete with one another on many levels and almost in every field of life. Governments prepare comprehensive development strategies, thanks to which they hope to improve their country’s competitiveness and gain better competitive advantage on the global market. Methods and tools which are becoming more and more popular in preparing these strategies are...
The paper is devoted to the analysis of the impact of changes in the level of economic growth on the volumes deciding about the condition of public finances. The main hypothesis put forward in the paper is the assertion that the changes of the economic situation affect substantially the state of public finances, causing changes on the level of revenues and expenditures of public sector. The second...
The aim of the study is presentation of the French system of police education on the example of its central academic institution - France’s National Police College. The paper describes the management system of the College, recruitment procedures in the French National Police as well as forms of education and professional training offered by the police training centres in France. In the introduction...
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