Business Economics
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
In today's context, an increasing number of companies across all sectors face new competitive challenges that continue to evolve. Global competition, the integration of social and environmental dimensions into corporate objectives, updated disclosure rules, and growing demands for transparency from stakeholders require companies to adopt more responsible and efficient governance models. The real challenge is therefore to develop decisions and interpretations that combine economic, environmental, social, and technological aspects, creating value in a sustainable way.
The course aims to provide students with the tools needed to understand and interpret the corporate environment through financial statement analysis, showing how sustainability has become an essential element in defining companies' future strategies.
The course aims to provide students with the tools needed to understand and interpret the corporate environment through financial statement analysis, showing how sustainability has become an essential element in defining companies' future strategies.
Expected learning outcomes
The course aims to:
· identify the characteristics of the Enterprise and the different business classifications
· identify the main corporate stakeholders and understand the evolution of firms toward sustainable development
· understand and assess financial statements
· interpret corporate strategies in dynamic contexts
· identify the characteristics of the Enterprise and the different business classifications
· identify the main corporate stakeholders and understand the evolution of firms toward sustainable development
· understand and assess financial statements
· interpret corporate strategies in dynamic contexts
Lesson period: Third trimester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Third trimester
Course syllabus
The course is structured into three parts:
I. The firm, its stakeholders, and governance
II. The annual financial statements and sustainability reporting
III. Strategic management of the firm
I. The firm, its stakeholders, and governance
II. The annual financial statements and sustainability reporting
III. Strategic management of the firm
Prerequisites for admission
There are non prerequites
Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Guest talks by qualified industry experts
- Group assignment, presented and discussed in class by the students, based on the analysis of an Italian listed company with a particular focus on the firm's internationalization strategy
- Guest talks by qualified industry experts
- Group assignment, presented and discussed in class by the students, based on the analysis of an Italian listed company with a particular focus on the firm's internationalization strategy
Teaching Resources
F. PERRINI, Management. Economia aziendale e gestione delle imprese, Milano, Egea, 2025 (Introduction, chapters 1, 6, 13 and Part IV -chapters 21, 22, 23, 24- excluded
Assessment methods and Criteria
The final exam is written and consists of 6 open-ended questions, each worth up to 5 points, with a duration of 1 hour.
The group assignment, optional and intended for attending students, accounts for 20% of the overall grade. It is based on empirical research conducted in groups of six, submitted as a written report (ppt format) and presented in class.
The group assignment, optional and intended for attending students, accounts for 20% of the overall grade. It is based on empirical research conducted in groups of six, submitted as a written report (ppt format) and presented in class.
SECS-P/07 - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTING STUDIES - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor:
Musile Tanzi Paola
Professor(s)
Reception:
Monday 10am-1pm
Via Passione, 13 20122 Milano