Theme №13. Economic and social production efficiency

Tasks:

Task 1. Paper discussion on the theme: «Investments in market economy and their role in ensuring efficiency of activity of the enterprise».

Task 2. Paper discussion on the theme: «Characteristic of balance of the enterprise and group of active and passive».

Task 3. Paper discussion on the theme: «Contents of the report and financial results during the period».

Task 4. Paper discussion on the theme: «System of the indicators characterizing production efficiency and a financial condition of production».

Methodical instructions: Preparation for performance of tasks should be began with studying of recommended literature. To acquire essence of production efficiency, to consider indicators financial stability of the enterprise. The assessment of a training material should be accompanied by concrete examples.

Basic literature: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

Additional literature: 10,11,12,13,14,15,16.

Periodicals: 17-60

Internet sources and the optional list of electronic sources: 1-6

13. The script of themes of written and control works

According to each written works, appoint the speaker and two opponents who make additions, enter discussion and estimate the paper. Protection of the written works is on office hours classes.

Themes of written and control works

1. State regulation of activity of the enterprise

2. State regulation of monopolistically activity

3. Need of development of small and medium business, as factor of economic growth of the state

4. The organizational and legal forms of the enterprise

5. The economic associations

6. A joint-stock companies

7. The production cooperatives

8. State enterprises and non-profit organizations

9. Stages of creation and organization of the new enterprise

10. The economic mechanism of reproduction of fixed assets in the conditions of the market relations

11. Policy of the enterprise in the field of working capital

12. Purpose of personnel policy of the enterprise and its components

13. Principles of human resource management of the enterprise

14. Reserves of growth of labor productivity at the enterprise

15. Influence of growth of labor productivity on financial results of activity of the enterprise

16. Types of financial resources of the enterprise and characteristic of their essence

17. Contents of the financial relations of the enterprise

18. Need and content of the main directions of research of a financial condition of the enterprise

19. The sanitation and bankruptcy program in Republic of Kazakhstan

20. Strategic planning: need, principles

21. Current planning: types and principles

22. Value of a problem of ensuring quality of production in the conditions of the market relations

23. International and intra firm standardization

24. Essence of certification of production

25. Investments in market economy and their role in ensuring efficiency of the enterprise activity

26. Economic classification of branches, complexes, sectors and the spheres, which accepted in Republic of Kazakhstan

27. Concept of the enterprise, its characteristic as multi-purpose system

28. Classification of the enterprises, its value and defining signs

29. Concept of the small, medium-sized and large enterprises, principles of their differentiation and optimum combination

30. Production structure of the enterprise, its characteristic and forming factors. Definition of shops of the main, auxiliary, serving and subsidiary production

31. Principles of the rational organization of production and characterizing indicators

32. Methods of an assessment of the production stocks recommended by the international standards

33. Tariff system, its structure and appointment: characteristic of sections, rates, factors, grids. Practice of application of ETKS

34. Demand for labor of firm and branch: features of curves of supply and demand of labor

35. State regulation of salary and employment rate

36. Marketing strategy of the enterprise: methods of the analysis of demand and sales volume forecast

37. Determination of optimum volume of production on the basis of dynamics of the general, average and limiting product (the characteristic of the law and a graphic representation)

38. Classification expenses on economic elements and accounting articles

39. Concept of the general, average and limiting expenses, their graphic representation; definition of a minimum of expenses as criterion of optimum volume of production

40. System of indicators of use efficiency of expenses in the Kazakhstan and foreign practice

41. Types of the prices applied in economy of Republic of Kazakhstan and their classification

42. The basic principles and stages of formation of free prices in the conditions of market economy. Price policy of the enterprise, stages of its development

43. Types of innovation, their life cycle

44. Structure and indicators of the plan of technical development of production, principles of its development

45. Preparation of new production, its stages

46. Calculation of economic efficiency of innovative projects: financial, budgetary, all-economic

47. Standardization and certification of production, its task, types and efficiency. International and European system of standards; state, interbranch, branch standards; enterprise standards, their appointment and scopes of application

48. Control systems of quality of production, operating at the enterprises of Kazakhstan

49. Foreign experience of product quality control

50. System of taxes and the payments brought by the enterprise in the budget and in off-budget funds

51. Relationship of the enterprise with banks, the exchanges and insurance companies

52. Techniques of determination of economic efficiency of new equipment and capital investments (concept of all-economic, self-supporting, absolute, comparative efficiency)

53. Types of efficiency of scientific technical policy and its indicators: the general, on conditions of production and uses, annual and for the settlement period, social and ecological

54. Characteristic of balance of the enterprise and group of active and passive

55. Contents of the report and financial results during the period

56. System of the indicators characterizing production efficiency and a financial condition of production

The references:

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2	Coval, J., J. Jurek and E. Stafford, "The Economics of Structured Finance," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2009.
3	Duffie, D. "The Failure Mechanics of Dealer Banks," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2010.
4	Duffie, D., A. Li and T. Lubke, "Policy Perspectives on OTC Derivatives Market Infrastructure," Federal Reserve Bank of New York, January 2010.
5	French, K. et al. The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System, Princeton University Press, 2010.
6	Geanakoplos, J. "The Leverage Cycle," NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2009.
7	Gorton, G. "The Subprime Panic," European Financial Management, 2008.
8	Growiec, J., Pammolli, F., Riccaboni, M., and Stanley, H.E. (2008). On the Size Distribution of Business Firms. Economics Letters, 98(2):207-212.
9	Guenther, C. (2009). Structural Change in the German Machine Tool Industry: An Empirical Investigation of Technological, Regional and Firm-Specific Developments. Doctoral Dissertation, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany.
10	Headd, B., and Kirchhoff, B. (2009). The Growth, Decline and Survival of Small Businesses: An Exploratory Study of Life Cycles. Journal of Small Business Management, 47(4):531–550.
11	Kinsella, S. (2009). The Age Distribution of Firms in Ireland, 1961-2009. Department of Economics, University of Limerick, Ireland.
12	Krishnamurthy, A. "How Debt Markets Have Malfunctioned in the Crisis," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2010.
13	Macri-Lassus, P. Trading Mechanisms for Financial Markets, Stanford PhD Dissertation, 2010. (especially chapter 2, "Theory and Practice of Financial Exchanges").
14	Wonnacott P. Microeconomics [Electronic resource]: научное издание/ Paul Wonnacott, Ronald Wonnacott; Karaganda State University. – 3th. ed.. – Electronic text data; 40,1МБ. – Karaganda: Инновационно-технолог. центр, 2008. – 1 эл. опт. диск (CD-ROM)