Household Accounting – A Case of Subsidised Self-Employed Entrepreneurs in Slovenia

Damjana Rant; Robert Horvat; Polona Tominc; Bojana Korošec

doi:10.1515/ngoe-2017-0010

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Household Accounting – A Case of Subsidised Self-Employed Entrepreneurs in Slovenia

Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy

Volume 63 (2017): Issue 2 (June 2017)

By: Damjana Rant, Robert Horvat, Polona Tominc and Bojana Korošec

Open Access

|Jun 2017

Abstract

This paper presents the results of the first empirical study of household accounting in Slovenia, which was conducted on a sample of households of subsidised self-employed entrepreneurs. Based on an original measurement of the levels of household accounting, this study presents the scope of different accounting components in these households. Further, it gives the results of the comparison between those subsidised self-employed entrepreneurs who managed to keep their business and those who failed to do so. The comparison of the results showed a statistically significant difference between the two groups of entrepreneurs only in terms of the scope of monitoring of household costs and expenditures.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ngoe-2017-0010 | Journal eISSN: 2385-8052 | Journal ISSN: 0547-3101

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Language: English

Page range: 32 - 40

Submitted on: Dec 1, 2016

Accepted on: Apr 1, 2017

Published on: Jun 27, 2017

Published by: University of Maribor

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Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

household accounting,

self-employed entrepreneurs,

entrepreneurial success

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Political economics,

Economic policy,

Business management,

Management, organization, corporate governance,

Mathematics and statistics for economists,

Statistics

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