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28030 - Economics and Business Organization T

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Docente: Adalberto Costantini
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-IND/35
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Electrical Energy Engineering (cod. 8610)

Learning outcomes

Knowledge of the economic laws of production and consumption of basic quantitative tools for economic and financial analysis of business decisions and interpretation of operating results

Course contents

  • The Financial Statements as an analysis tool for business management.
  • Company Cost Analysis for short-term decisions among different alternatives.
  • Capital Budgeting: the phases of the process of choosing the investments for long-term decisions.
  • The Business Plan.

Readings/Bibliography

  • R.N. Anthony, D.F. Hawkins, D.M. Macrì, K.A. Merchant Il Bilancio. Analisi economiche per le decisioni e la comunicazione della performance (14a edizione), 2016, McGraw-Hill. Solo i capitoli : 1, 2, 3, 4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.9, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
  • R.N. Anthony, D.F. Hawkins, D.M. Macrì, K.A. Merchant, Sistemi di controllo di gestione: analisi economiche per le decisioni aziendali , (14a edizione) 2016, McGraw-Hill. Solo i capitoli 1, 2, 3, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.3.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15, 16, 17.1).

Teaching methods

Traditional lessons with the use of video-projector (slides submitted will be made available online after the lesson).

Discussion of business cases (the cases texts will be made available online after the lesson).

Assessment methods

The final exam includes a written test whose dates will be fixed according to the calendar of the School and communicated through Almaesami service (http://almaesami.unibo.it [http://almaesami.unibo.it/]).

Registration for the exam only takes place through the Almaesami service.

Teaching tools

Exercises and case studies are available on the McGraw-Hill website pages related to these texts in the areas reserved for students: http://www.ateneonline.it/anthony/.

More exercises, case studies and possible other teaching materials will be made available to students on the network in the pages dedicated to the course: https://campus.cib.unibo.it/cgi/users/home, during the course.

Office hours

See the website of Adalberto Costantini