University Financial Sustainability: A comparison between Italy and other EU Countries (Part II: The Analysis)

Journal title RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'
Author/s Francesca Mandanici, Roberta Pace
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/1 Language English
Pages 27 P. 103-129 File size 455 KB
DOI 10.3280/RISS2016-001009
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The research defines the university financial sustainability as the interaction between three factors: the financial autonomy, the leverage, and the liquidity. In the first part of this research, they are translated in a series of warning indicators; now we define their "red flag" values, and we apply them to the 2007-2012 financial reports of Italian state universities. For each university, and each year, the paper calculates a synthetic financial sustainability indicator as the sum of the score reached by every single indicator. The results are compared among Italian universities and with EUA’s published studies. Results show that the medium-sized universities hold the lowest levels of financial sustainability. The small and very large universities have, on average, the higher levels in respect to the medium-sized ones.

Keywords: Financial sustainability, financial autonomy, leverage, liquidity, university

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Francesca Mandanici, Roberta Pace, University Financial Sustainability: A comparison between Italy and other EU Countries (Part II: The Analysis) in "RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'" 1/2016, pp 103-129, DOI: 10.3280/RISS2016-001009