Learning objectives
The course is designed to analyse the approach followed in capital allocation, the related assessment criteria and the management procedures adopted by the different financial operators. The objective of the course is to illustrate the relationship between the financial goals of the individual economic players involved (private firms, state-owned companies, third-sector institutions) and the criteria adopted to select investments and operational programmes, highlighting the consequent results in economic and social terms.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
- The investment process.
- Social returns and financial returns as objectives or limitations for financial operators.
- Financial criteria in the assessment of investments, and the measurement of financial effects.
- Non-financial parameters in the assessment of investments and the measurement of social effects.
- The problems of coherence between institutional objectives and the approach to capital allocation.
- Assessment procedures in the field of microfinance.
- Aspects involved in the assessment of non-financial results.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Collection of readings prepared by the instructor and additional material available on the course webpage.
Teaching methods
The course is taught by means of lectures, and by the analysis, performed by groups of students, of topical cases and subjects.
Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam
Other information
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