Är företagets lönsamhet och finansiella ställning avgörande för beslut beträffande företagets expansion?
Even if the main purpose is to decide if the companies profitability and
financial position is a determining factor for its growth, the purpose is to
determine if there are any differences between big and small companies in there
economical positions then they grow, in the selected industry.
This thesis is mainly a quantitative study. The selected industry for the study
is extraction of turf.
The financial measurement that most clearly differ the growing companies from
the not growing companies or the companies that didn?t change there amount of
employees was the returns of the companies own capital. It was also the returns
of the companies own capital there the main difference existed between the big
and the small companies. The profit margin and the solvency didn?t differ a lot
in the studied companies.