BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Course unit partition: Cognomi A-D

Academic year 2011/12
1° year of course -
Professor
Paolo ANDREI
Academic discipline
Economia aziendale (SECS-P/07)
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
Base
72 hours
of face-to-face activities
9 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Course unit partition: BUSINESS ECONOMICS

Learning objectives

The aim of the course is to highlight the features of corporate operation, their structure and the specific conditions that delineate their institutional and technical structure. After having analyzed the distinctive elements that characterize the various types of company, the course will introduce the main measurement systems that may be adopted with a view to controlling corporate economic and financial equilibrium. The basic goal is to offer students suitable evaluation models, in reference to the various economic departments, primary internal and external questions and environmental issues. Through the course syllabus offered, students will be in a position to interpret and apply a wide range of corporate analysis models, as well as pursue their studies in relation to quantitative assessment models that examine information internal and external to the company.
Students will be able to prepare and process accounting data and interpret the financial statements of business enterprises. Moreover with the insights of the course students be able to attend further accounting lectures concerning business enterprises financial statements analysis and external financial statements valuation processes.

Prerequisites

No

Course unit content

The course is composed by two parts.

The first part of the course will cover the following topics: characteristics of the various types of companies; economic environment and relationship between companies, markets and sectors; corporate structure: institutional order, technical structure and assets; overview of the organizational structure; economic, financial and patrimonial equilibrium; accounting systems; introduction to corporate financial statements.

The second part of the course will cover the following topics:
- the methodology of double-entry bookkeeping applied to income theory;
- transactions analysis;
- end-of-period analysis;
- preparation of financial statements.

Full programme

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Bibliography

AA.VV., Elementi di economia aziendale, Giappichelli, Torino, 2002.
ANDREI P. – FELLEGARA A.M., Contabilità generale e bilancio d’impresa, Giappichelli, Torino, 2010.

Teaching methods

Lectures and tutorials

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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