MECHANISMS OF THE FUNCTIONING AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ENTERPRISES:

1. Business management, with particular emphasis on such issues as: business process efficiency management, enterprise development management, sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, eco-management, performance management, corporate competitiveness strategies, management under globalization, innovation management and technology implementation, groups management, labour resources and labour costs management.

2. Small business management, focusing on issues such as: the determinants of the functioning and development of SMEs, diagnosis of the innovative potential of SMEs, Business Environment Institutions and their role in supporting the development and innovation of the SMEs sector, internationalization of enterprises and international entrepreneurship, operation and development of micro, small and medium enterprises in rural areas, mechanisms and instruments supporting the development of entrepreneurship in rural areas.

3. Managing the restructuring of economic processes, including such issues as: restructuring of enterprises and economies, transformation restructuring, structural and ownership transformation processes in the economy, sectoral restructuring programs and strategies, restructuring in the context of globalization.

CORPORATE FINANCE AND CONTROLLING:

1. Financial management, including such minor issues as: financial analysis, financial markets and instruments, business financing conditions, corporate capital structure, corporate finance policy, working capital management, business efficiency and financing, monitoring and identification of areas and states of threat to the continuation of business activity.

2. Value-based management and business valuation, including: value-based management concept, measurement and evaluation tools for value creation, value-based management tools, value controlling, essence and condition of enterprise valuation, business valuation methods.

3. Controlling in business management, including: strategic controlling, operational controlling, use of IT tools in controlling.

4. Controlling functions in the company, including: financial controlling, projects and investments controlling, production controlling, logistics controlling, personnel controlling, eco-controlling.