Business Economics

A.Y. 2023/2024
6
Max ECTS
40
Overall hours
SSD
SECS-P/07
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with the conceptual tools to study the complex and dynamic reality of companies, focusing on four themes: the unity of business phenomena, which must be observed in their multiple aspects of management, organization, detection, but always in an integrated perspective; the centrality of people, members of institutes, and the search for cost-effectiveness through the balance of the interests of all expectations; the extension of the analysis to all classes of institutions, not only enterprises but also households, the State and "non-profit" institutions; economic progress as a means of civil progress. Defined the general framework, the course will present the guidelines of managerial thinking, focusing on business management. The training objectives can be summarized as follows: to know the subjects - Institutes - of economic systems: families, companies, state and non-profit institutions, protagonists of economic activity to know the economic activity that the Institutes carry out, the interests that converge in the institutions themselves and the methods of their conversing in compliance with the principle of economy to know how affordability can be represented, measured and addressed through the model of the financial statements , and more generally through the system of company surveys to know the dynamics of companies, their interaction with the external environment and the changing setting up of the variables that make up the structure of the companies themselves present the dynamic and unitary framework of the company decision-making system and the underlying choices of economic convenience.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge of theory and experience in the study of business economics with a focus on balance sheet analysis. Ability in problem solving. Ability to use economic-financial databases.
Single course

This course can be attended as a single course.

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Lesson period
First trimester
Course syllabus
The course aims to teach the fundamental principles and tools for the governance and development of companies of any nature such as enterprises, public administrations and non-profit organisations. To this end, it develops:

- the concept of the company and business economics
- the fundamental principles and concepts of the logic and tools of corporate governance;
- cost-effectiveness as the fulfilment of stakeholders' expectations;
- long-term economic equilibrium;
- the fundamental choices of company management;
- the basic method for the formulation and management of strategies and collaboration between companies;
- organisation and organisational design choices;
- the main methods of analysing the efficiency of corporate production systems.
Prerequisites for admission
None
Teaching methods
The teaching, in keeping with its introductory character to the subject, takes care to decline the concepts studied with reference to specific management problems.

During the course, there will be FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT where students will be able to test their preparation and understanding in a mock examination (without a grade), the correction of which will be carried out collectively.
Teaching Resources
G. AIROLDI, G. BRUNETTI, V. CODA, Corso di economia aziendale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2020 (the entire volume except chapters 6, 7 ,8, 14, 18)
Assessment methods and Criteria
The examination will take place in written form
The test will aim to:
- ascertain the achievement of the objectives in terms of knowledge and understanding;
- ascertain the ability to apply knowledge and understanding;
- ascertain the student's autonomy of judgement, possibly also through the analysis of business cases discussed during the course;
- ascertain the student's mastery of the specific language relating to the economic operation of companies and the ability to present the arguments in a clear and orderly manner.
SECS-P/07 - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTING STUDIES - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor: Taddeo Alessandro
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