32741 - Company Performance Measurement Systems

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (cod. 0906)

Learning outcomes

  • To obtain basic knowledge on management control systems and performance measurement systems
  • To acquire the tools and techniques for developing a financial analysis
  • To learn how to assess a firm's profitability and financial position
  • To apply financial analysis techniques for supporting the management decision making process

 

Course contents

  • Income statement and balance sheet analysis: tools and methods
  • Key performance and profitability  ratios
  • Key financial ratios
  • Operating and financial risk analysis
  • Economic and financial benchmarking
  • Performance Measurement systems: principles and tools

Readings/Bibliography

  • R.Silvi, Analisi di bilancio: la prospettiva manageriale, McGraw Hill, Milano, 2006 (capitolo 10 escluso).
  • R. Silvi, Il controllo strategico nella gestione dell'impresa, in Lipparini A., Economia e gestione delle imprese, pp. 435-464, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007

Teaching methods

Lectures, case studies.

Assessment methods

Written and oral test

Links to further information

http://www.moodle.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=178

Office hours

See the website of Riccardo Silvi