FEATURES OF FIXED ASSETS ACCOUNTING IN PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANIES

Mandatory Accounting Disclosure by Small Private Companies*

This article analyzes how mandatory accounting disclosure is grounded on different rationales for private and public companies. It also explores technological changes, such as computerised databases and the Internet, which have recently made disclosure of company accounts by small companies potentially less costly and more valuable, thanks to electronic filing and universal online access to cre...

Contemporary Security and Private Security Companies: Privatization of Security and Consequences

With the end of the Cold War and the corresponding shift in military doctrine, the structure and deployment of national armed forces, as well as the core change in comprehension of (inter-)/national security and (inter-)/national security threats, the role of private security providers gained a new momentum. The increased involvement of private military security companies in the provision of pr...

The Quality of Accounting Information of Private Companies in the Czech Republic

Evaluating the Knowledge Assets of Innovative Companies

In the current post-industrial society, knowledge is recognised as a primary source of a company's wealth. However knowledge assets are much more difficult to identify and measure than are the physical assets with which we are much more familiar. (Boisot 1998) As a company's innovative capacity may be dependent upon its ability to take advantage of its knowledge assets, it is important to be ab...

Security Assets in E-Voting

As discussed in the literature [PrMü01; Rub04; Phi02] e-voting faces a lot of threats. The purpose of this paper is to give a systematically ordered overview of attacks against e-voting and to show one solution to the issues. The challenge is to provide identification and anonymity at the same time and to exclude the possibility of fraudulent manipulations by the server administration, the vote...