Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Be familiar with the appropriate business administration vocabulary and concepts

• Define the concept of a company and its institutional and legal framework.

• Analysing decision-making process and functional areas in the company.

• Identifying sources of funding in a company.

• Analysing the company from an economic, patrimonial and financial perspective.

• Read a financial statement.

This course examines fundamental concepts and principles of Business Administration.

After defining economic and business administration, emphasis is placed on the company, their features and the specific conditions that delineate their institutional and technical structure. Lectures will embrace all business aspects that are of importance, such as the various types of companies, relationship between company and environment, how a company works and how it is structured (roles, processes, activities, etc.). The course will also introduce the main concepts and measurement systems about corporate economic, financial and patrimonial equilibrium. Besides the course will concern with fundamental cost concepts and analysis. Finally, structure and contents of financial statements will be introduce.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Course books

1) M. Paoloni, P. Paoloni (a cura di), Introduzione ed orientamento allo studio delle aziende, Giappichelli, Torino, 2009.

2) M. Paoloni, M. Celli, Introduzione alla contabilità generale, Cedam, Padova, 2012. Chapters 1, 2, 3 (paragraph 3.1), 4, 5 (paragraphs 5.1 and 5.2), 6 (paragraphs 6.1, 6.2, 6.4).

3) M. Paoloni (a cura di) Il bilancio d'esercizio nel contesto nazionale ed internazionale, Giappichelli, Torino, 2005. Chapters V, VII, VIII, IX.

Assessment

Write and oral examination.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.