Teaching - Università degli Studi della Tuscia

Economia aziendale (objectives)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to equip students with the fundamental concepts and terminology necessary to comprehend business administration phenomena. It aims to enable students to comprehend the characteristics, modes of operation, and roles of companies as they engage with the external environment and different methods of internal organization. In the application section, students will gain basic knowledge about how to identify the economic and financial effects of business choices. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to grasp the basic themes of business economics, which will enable them to read documents or participate in debates on company content.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
By the end of this course, the student will have gained fundamental knowledge of interpretive models that can be used to assess a company's internal operations as well as its relationships with the external environment. These models will provide valuable insights into the dynamics of the company, allowing individuals to make informed decisions and take appropriate actions to improve its overall performance.

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The student will be able to recognize the various types of companies, understand and critically evaluate the roles of the people who operate there, and identify the parts that make up the structure. In addition, the student will be able to quantify the effect that the main management operations have on capital, the FY performance, and internal balances.

MAKING JUDGEMENTS
At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the company and its operation as well as the opportunity to undertake certain management operations about the effects that these may have on the qualitative and quantitative composition of the capital and the FY performance and, more generally, on internal balances.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
At the end of the course, the student will have acquired an aptitude for the analysis of business administration problems, relational skills, and written and oral expression, with appropriate language to discuss the topics dealt with the different interlocutors.

LEARNING SKILLS
The student will acquire the above-mentioned skills through a correct approach to individual study and guided the development of exercises and business cases

Code

18085

Language

ITA

Type of certificate

Profit certificate

Credits

Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code

SECS-P/07

Contact Hours

Type of Activity

Related or supplementary learning activities

Derived from	13437 ECONOMIA AZIENDALE in Business Administration L-18 0 SFORZA Vincenzo (syllabus) The course is structured in two parts (general and application). The first part focuses on analyzing the characteristics of company operations, their structures, and the specific conditions that shape their institutional and managerial structures. The second part introduces the student to the application of the basic concepts to different business contexts and acquiring technical tools that will equip learners to evaluate business performance. GENERAL SECTION The Company on the objective and subjective level • The origin of companies: needs, goods, and value • Meaning, evolution, and interpretation of the company concept • The conditions of existence, the characters of the company, and its classifications • The function of the company, its aims, and management • Business activities and organisation • The subjects within the company: legal and economic subjects • Strategies OPERATIONAL SECTION The economic and financial dimensions of management • The notion of corporate assets, liabilities, and equity • Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the corporate net assets • The accrual basis and the cash basis of accounting • The different measures of the capital in non-financial entities under the hypotheses of going concern and liquidation • The analysis of the profitability and of liquidity of the firm using the ratios • Cost accounting • The financial dimension of the business management (Requirement assessment, self-financing, cash flow) (reference books) 1) G. Catturi, Principi di economia aziendale. L'azienda universale. L'idea forza, la morfologia e la fisiologia, Cedam, Padova, 7th edition 2021 (Section A: lessons 1, 2, 8; Section B: lessons 9, 10, 12, 15, 16 e 20; Section C: Lessons 22, 23, 24, 28 & 31). 2) E. Cavalieri - R. Franceschi Ferraris, Economia Aziendale, Vol. I, Attività aziendale e processi produttivi, Giappichelli, Torino, 2010, 4th edition (Section II, Chapters 3 & 5). 3) Teaching materials available on the Moodle course website
Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities	From 02/10/2023 to 12/01/2024
Delivery mode	Traditional
Attendance	not mandatory
Evaluation methods	Written test Oral exam A project evaluation