To facilitate informed decision-making and foster transparency, stakeholders require access to reliable financial information. Financial audits serve the purpose of assisting companies in achieving success by assuring the accuracy and transparency of their financial statements. However, due to the evolving and increasingly competitive nature of markets, companies may exhibit indicators of financial vulnerabilit...
A transformação digital dos processos da organização acelerou nos últimos anos e teve um forte impulso com a pandemia Covid-19. A transformação digital implica normalmente alterações dos processos e conduz a um aumento da automatização dos fluxos, de onde resultam muitos benefícios. Neste cenário, a utilização de sistemas de gestão de processos de negócios apresenta claras vantagens pela rapidez de implementaçã...
Microcredit emerged in the 1970s, in Bangladesh, as a tool for sustainable development. However, in Portugal, it only took its first steps in the late 1980’s and emerged as a response to unemployment. This paper provides an overview of micro credit system in Portugal and aims to identify the profile of the successful microentrepreneur and point out the reasons that most contribute to the sustainability of micro...
Neste relatório apresentam-se os resultados obtidos com um estudo conduzido por uma equipa envolvendo parceiros de diferentes instituições, com o objetivo de medir o impacto económico de um conjunto de Institutos Politécnicos, situados em diferentes regiões do país, com contextos socioeconómicos diversos e distinta capacidade de atração de estudantes.
Polytechnic Institutes in Portugal: research on the impact of twelve institutes on the local economy Higher Education Institutions are recognized as important actors in regional development. The Portuguese higher education system comprises both Universities and Polytechnic Institutes, which face an increasing pressure to demonstrate that their presence has an impact on the surrounding communities contributing t...
Portugal’s tourism sector is on permanent expansion and contributes significantly to the Portuguese economy. However, it has been facing the problem of business failure. The main goal of this paper is to develop an econometric and a multivariate model for forecasting business failure in the hospitality industry using logit and discriminant analysis. The present paper does not explore the causes of business fail...
The transition to the production phase of electronic products requires the product design to follow a large set of constraints that ensure that the electronic product will materialize into a viable product. The printed circuit board (PCB) design is a central part of electronic products and therefore is the part where most constraints are enforced. Although PCB designers already address design constraints with t...
Textile and tourism sectors are two important industries in the Portuguese economy. However, its high exposure to both internal and international economic volatility make the companies operating in these economic sectors particularly vulnerable to economic crises, such as the ones which have been impacting Portugal and the European Union. The objective of this paper is to evaluate and understand the impact of s...