BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1

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Contents

Educational Goals

The educational objectives, content, texts etc. are those of the whole course of Business Administration (12 credits)

This is an introductory course to the broad field of economics and management applied to all classes of social institutions: firms, the State and non profit organizations. After giving the overall framework, the course deals specially with the basic concepts and theories of modern management. The course also provides a basic knowledge useful in accounting for business transactions and preparing the financial statements according to national law.

Requirements

None

Contents

Economic activity and economic actors.
Behavioural assumptions: ethics and bounded rationality.
Production and consumption of economic goods: basic processes.
The complementary roles of families, firms, State and non profit organizations.
Ownership structure and governance processes.
Cooperations among firms.
The rationale behind the financial accounting.
Recognition process by journal entries.
Measurement of the elements of financial statements.
Presentation of financial statements.

Recommended Reading List

E. Santesso (a cura di), Lezioni di Economia Aziendale, Giuffrè, 2010.
F. Cerbioni, L. Cinquini, U. Sostero, Contabilità e bilancio, McGraw-Hill, 2011, except chapter 1 and 3 (388 pages).

Recommended Reading List:
E. Cavalieri (a cura di), Economia aziendale, vol. I e vol. II, Giappichelli, Torino, 2008.
L. Marchi (a cura di), Contabilità d'impresa e valori di bilancio, III ed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2007.
L. Marchi (a cura di), Introduzione all'economia aziendale, VI ed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2006.

Assessment

written and oral

Teaching Methods

Conventional

Teaching Language

Italian

Other information

If the written part will be passed the student should pass an additional oral part.

Sustainability

• Course with sustainable contents
• University credits of sustainability: 2