Course teached as: B025574 - ECONOMIA E ORGANIZZAZIONE AZIENDALE 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
First part: Financial Management
Balance sheet and income measurement, statement of cash flows, analisys of financial statements
Second part: Financial Mathematics
Third part: Economic Nature of the Firm
Fourth part: Investment decisions
Fifth part: Cost accounting
Fixed costs, variable costs and BEP
Direct costs, indirect costs and full cost accounting
Sixth part: Governance of firms in global economy
Seventh part: organisational theory
R. N. Anthony, L.K. Breitner,Essentials of Accounting,
Prentice Hall
Slides and lectures.
Further/suggested readings
Azzone G., Bertelé U., L’impresa – sistemi di governo, valutazione e controllo. ETAS, Milano.
Daft R.L., Organizzazione aziendale, Apogeo, Milano
Favotto F., Economia aziendale – modelli, misure, casi, McGraw-Hill, Milano.
Learning Objectives
Learn how to interpret and analyze an income statement and a balance sheet
Learn how to measure the profitability of a project and / or of a company as a whole
Learn how to perform an analysis of contribution and interpret the relationship between cost, volume and profits
Know the role of firms in global economy
Know the legal forms of businesses
Know the governance models of companies
Learn to design teh most adequate organisation to face environemntal complexity and uncertainty
Prerequisites
none
Teaching Methods
class lectures and exercises (part 1-5)
class lectures and case-studies (part 6-7)
Type of Assessment
written and oral examination (for students of Management Engineering course).
Specifically:
1 written exercise on balance sheet analysis (cc6)
1 written exercise on investment analysis (cc6)
2 written exercise on production cost determination and BEP estimation (ca4, ca6)
1+ case studies - to be verbally presented - on company's organisation (cc6)
1+ case studies - to be verbally presented - on property models and governance mechanisms of real firms (cc9)
Course program
First part: Essentials of accounting
Basic concept and the Balance Sheet
Balance sheet changes and income measurement
Accounting records and systems
REvenues and monetary assets
Expenses measurement and the Income Statement
Inventories and cost of sales
Noncurrent assets and depreciation
Lieabilities and Equity
Statement of Cash flows
Analisys of Financial Statements
The balance sheet according with the Italian Civil Code
Second part: Elements of Financial Mathematics
Third part: The objective of the firm and the Economic Nature of the Firm
Fourth part: Investment decisions
Investment decision criteria
Investment decision with the net present value rule
Fifth part: Essentials of cost accounting
Fixed costs, variable costs and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
Direct costs, indirect costs and full cost accounting
Part 6: Goal and scope, property and governance models in global companies
Modulo 7: Organisational theories (hierarchies, functional and divisional model, ad-hocratic organisation, integration roles, environmental uncertainty model, Perrow's model.