BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Course Sheet

Course code:

EA12

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2020/2021

Divisions:

Cognomi E-Z

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS

Disciplinary Sector:

Business Administration

Is part of:

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

MIGLIORI STEFANIA

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

153

Prerequisites:

They are not required

Objectives

The teaching course contributes to the pursuit of the general objective of the course of study to provide a solid basic preparation in business disciplines, in order to ensure mastery of all the issues concerning the functioning of the business system in its different configurations and specifically for:
- identify and assess the economic, financial and monetary conditions of the company.

EXPECTED RESULTS OF LEARNING
According to the professional profile that the course of study aims to train, at the end of the course the student will have to possess the following knowledge and skills:

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ABILITY
- distinguishes the economic, financial and monetary dimension of business management
- identifies the economics conditions of the firm
- identifies the economic balance conditions
- distinguishes the different cost configurations
- distinguishes income and capital structures
- distinguishes long-term and variable financial needs of the firm
- identifies the correlations between funding sources and investments (financial structure)
- identifies and distinguishes the components of the corporate cash flow
- distinguishes basic competitive strategies

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ABILITY (applied)
- accounts the business management operations
- determines the economic conditions
- determines the economic balance conditions
- represents the structures of income and capital
- determines the operating income and the net working capital
- identifies the links between the income and capital structure
- reclassification of the capital structure with financial criteria
- - determines the effect of leverage (in first approximation)

AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT
- identifies and interprets the links between the income and capital structure
- evaluates the determinants of the general corporate balance and the interdependencies between the economic, financial and monetary balance
- identifies the effects of the financial leverage effect on company profitability (first approximation)

COMMUNICATIVE / APPLICATION SKILLS
- use the technical-business and managerial terminology related to business management

Contents

The course aims to provide theoretical knowledge for the analysis of the business system observed with the use of the main interpretative models developed in doctrine and in practice for the management of companies.
Program contents:
1. Business and Management
2. Business management and the system of operations
3. The economic balance, income and capital
4. The financial balance (or financial structure)
5. Cash -flow balance
6. The strategic approach

Extended Syllabus

COURSE SYLLABUS
1. Business and management
- The company's characters
- The choice of the legal form of the company
- Managerial theories

2. Business management
- The economic dimension
- The financial dimension
- The monetary dimension
- The system of operations

3. The economic eqilibrium
- Costs and revenues
- Efficiency, effectiveness, economy
- Income and capital
- The break-even analysis

4. The balance of the financial structure
- The trend of financial needs
- The coverage of financial needs
- The financial structure
- The leverage

5. The balance of the cash flow
- The analysis of operating cash flow
- The non-operating cash flow analysis
- The composition of cash flows

5. The strategic approach
- Studies of business strategy
- The concept of strategy
- Strategic management

Recommended Bibliography

G. PAOLONE – L. D’AMICO (edited by), I principi e i modelli de L’ECONOMIA AZIENDALE, G. Giappichelli Editore, Torino, 2017 (Section I – Chapters: I, II, III, IV, V; Section II – Chapters: II, III, IV).
Further didactic materials by the Lecturers will be published online at www.elearning.unich.it

Teaching Methods

Teaching is structured in 72 hours of classroom lessons divided into theoretical lessons enriched by seminars and exercises aimed at achieving the objectives of the course.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The learning evaluation will take place according to the following procedures:
- Self-assessment in progress;
- Evaluation test, which represents 70% of the overall evaluation (expressed in thirtieths) and is articulated in relation to the training objectives to be evaluated;
- Colloquium, which represents 30% of the overall evaluation (expressed in thirtieths) and is aimed at evaluating the communication student's ability,
his mastery of the specific technical language of the discipline and clarity of exposition, interpretation and analysis of business management.

Contacts/More Information

All information regarding the course, the lecture notes, the support materials and all communications will take place through the e-learning page.
Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher for their program.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Aree