Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mária Belanová Author-Workplace-Name: Katedra štatistiky a operačného výskumu, Fakulta ekonomiky a manažmentu, Slovenská poľnohospodárska univerzita v Nitre, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovenská republika Author-Name: Zita Varacová Author-Workplace-Name: ERNST &YOUNG, Zochová 6-8, 811 03 Bratislava, Slovenská republika Title: Appraisal of the load of productive population by post-productive segment of population with the usage of SAS Title: Hodnotenie zaťaženosti produktívnej populácie SR poproduktívnou zložkou populácie s využitím SASu Abstract: The load of productive population by post-productive segment is an important indicator of human resources development. Relating to spatial aspect of the mentioned indicator we have used the methods of spatial statistics. The means of SAS have appeared as very advantageous tool for this kind of analysis. The results confirm the random location of the investigating indicator on the space of Slovak Republic in the years of 1993, 1997 and 2000, too. Keywords: population, Monte Carlo, centroid cluster analysis, Moran coefficient, Geary coefficient Journal: Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis Pages: 7-12 Volume: 54 Issue: 6 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.11118/actaun200654060007 File-URL: http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun200654060007.html File-Format: text/html File-URL: http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun200654060007.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf X-File-Ref: http://acta.mendelu.cz/RePEc/mup/references/acu-200606-0001.txt Handle: RePEc:mup:actaun:actaun_2006054060007 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Omran Mansur Essayah Author-Workplace-Name: Ústav managementu, Mendelova zemědělská a lesnická univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika Title: Factors impacting on the external environment of the Arabic Maghrib Countries Union Title: Faktory ovlivňující vnější prostředí Unie zemí arabského Maghribu Abstract: The paper is focused on the Arabic Maghrib Countries. Relations of these countries in their different forms, political, economical, and sociological, have not suddenly appeared, but are founded on a long-term development. At the same time, they have not yet achieved enough progress to make it possible to analyze the contradictory elements in the relation forms and to help these countries achieve the aims required and advantages they desire.Available information and performed analyses show that managerial systems are capable of making this partnership and its continuation effective, especially when they distinguish between what can be agreed upon, and the subjects of disagreement, and move away from the political circumstances, and exploit the geographical location. Location plays an important role in effecting unified relationships between the states of this union and with other countries as well, because it is considered an opportunity, and stimulatory factor, which needs to be exploited by cooperation in economic field.An example of cooperation of these countries can be adoption of unified policies represented by common conduct in negotiations of prices and other trade conditions in the trade with oil and natural gas, and natural resources of its member states, without relating to the old problems, and not linking political matters with economic matters.Focusing on the culture and education are also very important in this subject, because it represents one of the major constructs, which should be considered when trying to improve management systems in these countries. They have to try to overcome weaknesses by cooperation in preparation of educational concepts and systems and developing educational programs capable of meeting the challenges of sweeping societal changes, and the principal challenges, which Arabic Countries are bound to face in the near future. Education in these countries needs a lot of investments in order to enable creating educated and literate society for facing the dangers and exploiting the opportunities of the future. This will not come to fruition except by liberation of its development from the negative effects of personal relations between leaders of these states and the devolvement of this matter to real democracies.The paper is concluded by recommendation of concrete steps to be realized by the AMCU countries in order to revitalize the union and enable the above mentioned improvements Keywords: AMCU, Opportunities, Threats, Analysis, External Environment, External Factor Evaluation Matrix Journal: Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis Pages: 27-38 Volume: 54 Issue: 6 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.11118/actaun200654060027 File-URL: http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun200654060027.html File-Format: text/html File-URL: http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun200654060027.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf X-File-Ref: http://acta.mendelu.cz/RePEc/mup/references/acu-200606-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:mup:actaun:actaun_2006054060027 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tomáš Foltýnek Author-Workplace-Name: Ústav informatiky, Mendelova zemědělská a lesnická univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika Title: Comparison of the eLearning Solution at MUAF in Brno and Polytechnic University in Madrid Title: Srovnání eLearningového řešení MZLU v Brně a Polytechnické univerzity v Madridu Abstract: The necessity of eLearning support of the university studies is setting up (or was setting up) at the universities all over the world. This paper compares the eLearning technologies available at Mendel University in Brno (MUAF), Czech Republic, and Polytechnic University in Madrid (UPM), Spain, in the context of different conditions at both universities. The level of using of these technologies and practical experiences with them are evaluated too.In concrete this paper deals with the systems GATE (GAbinete de TeleEducación) and AulaWeb, used at the UPM and system ELIS, used at MUAF. The fifteen-year experiences with development of eLearning at UPM are very valuable study material for the developers of the ELIS system. Some, especially conception properties of the ELIS system, can be, on the other hand, useful for inspiration vice versa. Keywords: e-learning, MUAF in Brno, ELIS, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, GATE, AulaWeb, comparison of eLearning technologies Journal: Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis Pages: 39-46 Volume: 54 Issue: 6 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.11118/actaun200654060039 File-URL: http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun200654060039.html File-Format: text/html File-URL: http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun200654060039.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf X-File-Ref: http://acta.mendelu.cz/RePEc/mup/references/acu-200606-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:mup:actaun:actaun_2006054060039 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jaroslava Hyršlová Author-Workplace-Name: Katedra ekonomiky a managementu chemického a potravinářského průmyslu, Univerzita Pardubice, Studentská 95, 532 10 Pardubice, Česká republika Author-Name: Petra Mísařová Author-Workplace-Name: Ústav účetnictví a daní, Mendelova zemědělská a lesnická univerzita Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika Author-Name: Danka Némethová Author-Workplace-Name: Centrum biostatistiky a analýz, Kamenice 126/3, 625 00 Brno, Česká republika Title: Environmental accounting in the Czech Republic Title: Environmentální účetnictví v České republice Abstract: The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the existing state of environmental accounting as used in business and to discuss the shift of system application, focusing on the enterprises that have already implemented the environmental management systems. The paper summarizes the research outcomes of 2005, carried out by the Czech Environmental Management Centre and the Czech Environmental Information Agency. The research was targeted at the experience of companies with an implementation and operation of the environmental accounting system in the Czech Republic. The subject of the research was tracing and evaluating of environmental costs and benefit of the system of environmental accounting for company management. Keywords: economic-environmental efficiency, accounting, environmental costs Journal: Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis Pages: 57-68 Volume: 54 Issue: 6 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.11118/actaun200654060057 File-URL: http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun200654060057.html File-Format: text/html File-URL: http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun200654060057.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf X-File-Ref: http://acta.mendelu.cz/RePEc/mup/references/acu-200606-0007.txt Handle: RePEc:mup:actaun:actaun_2006054060057 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Svatopluk Kapounek Author-Workplace-Name: Ústav financí, Mendelova zemědělská a lesnická univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika Author-Name: Lubor Lacina Author-Workplace-Name: Ústav financí, Mendelova zemědělská a lesnická univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika Title: Taylor rule and EMU - Monetary Policy Determination and ECB's Preferences Title: Taylorovo pravidlo a HMU - stanovení preferencí monetární politiky ECB Abstract: The aim of the article is to evaluate the preferences of the ECB in monetary policy and to compare them with preferences of the central banks of new EU member countries from Central and Eastern Europe. The ECB's responsibility for the primary objective (price stability) often contrasts with the requirement for economic growth stabilization policy from the national governments.There are doubts if the current members of Eurozone constitute an optimum currency area (the Eurozone 12 is recently the combination of rapidly growing and slow-growing - low inflationary countries). The differences between the countries will even expand during the European monetary union enlargement by new EU member countries. Consequently the probability of asymmetric shocks will increase. The main question is the ability of ECB to fulfill the needs of all EMU member countries in terms of optimal monetary policy. In the first part the authors analyze differences between the preferences of the ECB and national authorities (governments). The negative experiences of Ireland, Italy and other EMU members with current status quo help us to understand fear of future member countries from possible impact of common monetary policy on their national economies.The second part of the paper deals with interest rates determination by ECB and compares it with expectations (requirements) from EMU member and EMU candidate countries. The main contribution of the article may be seen in central bank's preferences analyses - the preferences are defined as the parameters in Taylor rule (the weights given by ECB and national authorities to the price stability and economic growth stimulation).The hypothesis is defined as following: are the preferences of ECB in line with the preferences of national central banks of EMU candidate countries?The empirical analysis is based on the Taylor rule decomposition. The hypothesis is tested by regression analysis. Time series regression model uses relations between the inflation target, potential output, current macroeconomic situation on the one side and current monetary policy strategy, represented by interest rates, on the other side.A range of empirical studies refers to differences between the desired interest rates of member and future member countries of EMU. The level of desired interest rates changes continuously according to the current economic situation of individual national economies. The differences are given by dissimilarities in financial systems, transmission mechanisms, and historical context of monetary arrangements. The authors suppose that the national authorities' and central banks' preferences are constant in the short time or identical before and after enlargement. The main idea of the article is that the traditional approach, which compares desired interest rates by national central banks, is irrelevant before full membership in EMU. The center of the problem is the mutual agreement on preferences of common monetary policy. The answer to the question: how to evaluate real impact of common monetary policy on real economy of EMU candidate countries after their entrance to Eurozone, is expected result of the article. Keywords: Taylor rule, ECB, monetary integration, inflation targeting, interest rate determination Journal: Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis Pages: 85-96 Volume: 54 Issue: 6 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.11118/actaun200654060085 File-URL: http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun200654060085.html File-Format: text/html File-URL: http://acta.mendelu.cz/doi/10.11118/actaun200654060085.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf X-File-Ref: http://acta.mendelu.cz/RePEc/mup/references/acu-200606-0010.txt Handle: RePEc:mup:actaun:actaun_2006054060085