ABSTRACT: The paper focuses on macroeconomics understood as a major part of economic science concerned with the whole economic system involving such variables as aggregate (total) production, national income, added value, gross domestic product, gross national product, economic growth, aggregate employment, inflation and so on, and relevant relationships established between these categories. Using definitions borrowed from the National Accounts, the paper shows some identities, which are very important at macroeconomic level. The Keynesian theory of multiplier and employment is also outlined in order to conceive macroeconomic policies against cyclical unemployment and other undesirable phenomenon associated with rapid economic development.

ABSTRACT: The technical and scientific revolution had a significant impact on services involving the quantitative and qualitative connection between services and the other elements of the aggregate social system. However, in spite of the fact that there have been massive capital injections in services, productivity earnings remained very low.

ABSTRACT: Tourism traffic must be quantified through four observing units’ categories: custom houses; quartering units; internal and external travel agencies on home territory; family budgets. These observing units allow to quantify the statistical observation’s object and its cyclicity.

ABSTRACT: The consumer’s scale of preference, which is the starting point of the theory of consumer behaviour, can be illustrated very clearly by indifference curves. The point where budget line meets the highest possible indifference curve compatible with the consumer’s income and prices represents the state of equilibrium for the consumer. Consumer behaviour theory gains still more practical importance if consumer preferences are subjected to detailed psychological and sociological analysis.

ABSTRACT: The stakeholders are a person or a group which has an interest, or a personal implication into a firm and his performances. The studies made in developed countries show that the satisfaction of client’s desires is more important that the satisfaction of stockholders desires increasing the responsibility of strategic management, from the attending to the financial obligation to the stockholder up to the accomplishment of the desideratum of diverse investments is a process of increasing the activity of superior management

ABSTRACT: H. Schollhammer classified the compared management studies for the first time in 1969 when he identified the following types of directions: social-economic direction, ecological direction, behavioural direction, empirical direction.

ABSTRACT: Comparative management literature emphasizes the following models: Farmer-Richman Model (based on the assumption that environment represents the main factor whom influence upon management is decisive); Rosalie Tung Model (using the following variables: environment, or extra-organisational variables, intra-organisational variables, personal and result variables); Child Model (including the three determinative domains-contingency, culture and economic system-threaten as items objectively connected); Geert Hofstede Model (the main feature for the most popular comparative management model is represented by the five sides taken into account in this conception: individualism/ collectivism, great/small power distance, intense/low uncertainly avoidance, masculinity /felinity, short/long term approach).

ABSTRACT: A compared management study involves the following stages: establishing the research’s goals; specifying the themes; sampling; translating the materials; measuring and instrumenting the management processes; conducting the study to get answers to similar situations in different cultures; information analysis and interpretation; applying the research’s results.

ABSTRACT: Culture is always considered as a collective phenomenon and all individuals living in the same social environment accept it, at least partially. Culture as collective programming of mind distinguishes the members of a group from another. Corporate culture must be in accordance with national culture in order to insure a proper functioning for the organization.

ABSTRACT: The paper presents an overview of the main guarantee types, which could be accepted by a bank, for credits given to economic agents that apply for those in view of covering their financial deficits.

ABSTRACT: L’ergonomie a trouvé des champs d’application à des domaines autres que le travail professionel : ainsi se développent une ergonomie des bâtiments et progressivement, par l’élargissement de l’ergonomie du poste de travail, une ergonomie des systèmes. Elle concerne alors les interactions des différents éléments humains, matériels et d’ambiance. Elle tente aussi de définir la répartition des tâches entre l’homme, machines et les conditions de fonctionnement optima de cet ensemble d’éléments et la charge de travail pour opérateur. L’apport de l’ergonomie se situe, aussi, dans le domaine des méthodes d’ánalyse d’un système. Dans cet ouvrage on presente quelques éléments relatif de milieu thermique - composant de la condition du travail.

ABSTRACT: The computer is the most sophisticated but - at the same time - the most adaptable and the most powerful tool; the increase of the power of calculus generating the expanding of the horizon of applicability. Today it is used in the most varied fields: engineering, administration, trade, art, scientific research, services.

ABSTRACT: The main characteristic of investments is risk assumption, because investments are related to coming evolutions and the future is uncertain. Investment decision under risk circumstances involves two separate stages in approaching the risk, there are: risks identification and registration in economic-financial calculus.

ABSTRACT: There are many investment opportunities available to individual investors today. In order to select the right investment alternative investors must take into consideration realistic and measurable investment objectives and must develop a valid investment program. The process of investment planning begins with the establishment of a number of specific and realistic investment goals.

ABSTRACT: The analysis of economic and financial indicators of the firm regards the profit and loss account analysis and the balance sheet analysis. The cash-flow from operating activities represents the amount of cash obtained by a firm from selling goods and services after deducting the costs involved by raw materials, materials and processing operations.

ABSTRACT: Management and cost accounting assumes the previous study of influencers and their implications in this area. Based on these facts one can determine management and cost accounting procedures that satisfy the managerial needs of a business. These factors are dynamic forces that cause the occurrence and change of a phenomenon or economic outcome. They do not operate independently, but mutually influence each other.

ABSTRACT: The paper briefly points out one of the consequences of restructuring mines in the Jiu Valley, i.e. unemployment; its consequences on the standard of living of the people made voluntarily redundant and implicitly on the living standard of all those who live in this region. The way authorities have tried to solve this problem for almost three years is also shown.

ABSTRACT: Financial management has developed as a separate area of study, being very important for both the small or large companies. Financial management has a role in investment decisions, financing decisions and controlling resources. The responsibility of the financial manager is to monitor actual performance of the company.

ABSTRACT: For distinguish the relation between medium and margin cost for determination of the physical volume of the pit coal production for which the medium cost is minimum, the production costs were divided in fixes and variables depending on their behaviour face to the variation of the production. Starting from the Mellerovicz relation, more possibilities have been elaborated resulting conclusions about minimizing the production costs.

ABSTRACT: The primary aim of the Renewable Energy Programme in UK is the development of a self-sustaining market for each of the technologies as they become technically, economically and environmentally viable. The White Paper “Energy for the Future: Renewable Sources of Energy suggests very ambitious targets. To achieve a 12 % contribution from renewable energy sources to the EU’s gross inland energy consumption by 2010 will involve major deviations from “business-as-usual”.

ABSTRACT: The paper presents, as it is suggestively shown in the title, the role played by bank credits in the mobilization and redistribution of short-term financial resources. The present crediting system in Romania is briefly presented as well as the main categories of credits and the principal stages to be met both by the applicant economic agent and the financing bank, so that the crediting bank would make a decision for a short-term crediting.

ABSTRACT: There are many different financial institutions offering such a tempting array of services to attract customers. The financial services provided by the banking industry are the following: demand deposits, times deposits, loans, electronic transfer of funds, financial advice, payroll service, certified checks, trust services, safe-deposit boxes.

ABSTRACT: Sustainable development means, pragmatically, the maintenance of the living possibilities and conditions for the coming generations, especially the preservation of regenerative natural resources – at least at the level of those already existing – for the present generation, as well as the improvement of the environmental factors affected by pollution. The lack of material and financial resources, the difficult access to “clean” technologies, the deficiencies in the formational and mostly informational education, the spiritual pollution is strongly restrictive factors for the promotion of spectacular measures aimed at the environment protection and rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT: The article makes a review of the role that the Stock Exchange has in the market economy and a short history of it in Romania. It also makes a presentation of the OTC (“over the market”) market – which is a component of the secondary capital market. The indisputable international leader of this market is NASDAQ, and for Romania the transactional system on the OTC market is RASDAQ.