摘要：The current situation in activities of enterprises in the changing competitive environment requires maximum effort towards achieving stated objectives. Businesses focus the activities to maintain or improve their market position. Exploration and evaluation of economic results allows to forecast the future direction of the company with the subsequent possibility to define influencing factors and to compare these values with other companies operating in the same industry. The aim of this paper is to highlight the significance of evaluating databases in the company system and to summarize the results of the analysis of selected economic indicators of manufacturing enterprises and their comparison in the time order with the indicating the selected indicator - the total cost. By random sampling of 32 manufacturing enterprises in various industries across Slovakia with different size and legal form of the company, we examined the statistical significance of the total cost in the period 2008 - 2011.
