37458 - Business Economy

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Information Science for Management (cod. 8014)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student has the essential tools for understanding the structure and functioning of firms, to analyze economic and financial consequences of business decisions and interpret the information system comprising the financial statements. Students learn the criteria for the analysis of recurring decisions such as the choice of the selling price of a product, the levels of production capacity and choices for the internalization or externalization of production activities.

Course contents

FIRST PART

Company and its context

  • The actors of the enterprise
  • The enterprise and its environment
  • Constitutive elements

Management operations

  • Internal and external management
  • Methodological introduction of accounting and bookkeeping
  • Economic and financial values

Economic result of management operations

  • Earning
  • Relations between income and share capital

Economic and financial balance

  • Objective and subjective economic balance
  • The cost of the capital
  • The cost in its different ways of interpretation

Financial balance

  • Financial needs
  • Different ways for the financial needs’ coverages
  • Self-sufficiency of the enterprise system

 

SECOND PART

Accounting records

  • General accounting and double-entry method
  • Business records
  • Periodic accounting records
  • Accruals and deferrals and other recognitions before the closing of the Financial Statement
  • Training exercises

From the settlement records to the Financial Statement

  • Documents constituting the balance sheet
  • Structure of the Balance Sheet
  • Structure of the Income Statement
  • Publication/release of the balance sheet

Auditing – overview

  • Organisational structure and operating systems
  • Accounting and non accounting records

Readings/Bibliography

The main aspect is to attend the classes and lectures.

Francesco Giunta - Economia Aziendale - Cedam (Chapters: from 1 to 11)

Principi contabili OIC 11 e 12

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons and lectures.

Assessment methods

Written assessment:

  • open and/or closed questions relating to the first part (10 points)
  • accounting exercises (10 points)
  • exercises relating to Financial Statements and/or managerial accounting (10 points)
  • optional exercise on the program (3 points)

Office hours

See the website of Cristina Aprile