General information


Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Rosa Herrero Antón

Trimester: Second term

Credits: 4

Teaching staff: 

Jaume Teodoro Sadurní

Teaching languages


  • Catalan

Teaching in Catalan with materials in Spanish and English

Presentations of works by English language students are valued

Skills


Basic skills
  • B3_Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of ​​study), to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues

  • B4_That students can convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences

Specific skills
  • EFB6_Adequate knowledge of the concept of company, institutional and legal framework of the company. Organization and management of companies

  • ESI1_Ability to integrate Information and Communications Technology solutions and business processes to meet the information needs of organizations, enabling them to achieve their goals effectively and efficiently, thus achieving competitive advantage

  • ESI4_Ability to understand and apply the principles and practices of organizations, so that they can act as a link between the technical and management communities of an organization and actively participate in user training

Transversal competences
  • T1_That students know a third language, which will be preferably English, with an adequate level of oral and written form, according to the needs of the graduates in each degree

  • T2_That students have the ability to work as members of an interdisciplinary team either as one more member, or performing management tasks in order to contribute to developing projects with pragmatism and a sense of responsibility, making commitments taking into account the available resources

Description


This subject is part of the BUSINESS subject of the degree curriculum. It is taught after the subject of entrepreneurship in the first year and Economics of the previous term, in the second year. That is why the focus is now on the company in operation, looking for knowledge in the operative part of it from its different functional areas. An entire blog is dedicated to deepening the economic and financial part so that the future graduate has a sufficient basis for the development of company management projects.

Contents


Topic 1: Basic concepts of business and administration
Economy market Supply and demand. Economic history. Microeconomics Factors of production. Goods and services. Types of organizations. Ownership, address and governance of the company. Sector. Sector value chain.

Topic 2: Organization and strategy of the company
Functional subsystems of the company. Commercial and marketing management. Address of operations. Administrative address (financial and Human Resources). Commercial documentation (receipt, invoice, payroll, tax forms...). Organizational design. Basic legislation (commercial, fiscal, social/labor security, industrial/intellectual property, data protection, image rights, compliance, ...). Strategic plan Analysis of the environment (SWOT, PESTEL, ...). Mission, vision and values. Targets. Market strategy. Human behavior of the company. Budget/business plan. Control indicators. Innovation Management. Ethics and CSR

Tema 3: Economic administration of the company

Accounting concepts. Accounting statements. Costs. Income. Assets. Liabilities. Heritage. Capital. Asset analysis. Income statement. Stock. Treasury. Financial economic ratios. Dead point. Maneuvering background.

Topic 4: Financial analysis and planning
investment leverage financing Activation of expenses. Business metrics. PEF (financial economic plan). Valuation of the company (postmoney, premoney). Issue cousin. Seed capital and risk capital.

Evaluation system


Concept Weighting observation
Activities and workshops 25% 5 notes of equal weight relating to activities to be delivered
Theory test I: Test type  25% Questions from topic 1 and 2
Theory test II: Test type 25% Questions from topic 3 and 4
Final exam 25%

Finance exercise with spreadsheet.

Test-type theory recovery tests for students with an average score of less than 5 on the two tests. The theory recovery consists of a single test on subjects 1, 2 and 3. 

Final grade ordinary assessment 100% Weighting of financial year grades and last theory test grade. To pass in ordinary assessment, it is necessary that the average grade of the tests (Test + final exercise) is greater than 5.
Final grade extraordinary assessment (next term)  Maximum score of 5 Single test of the entire syllabus (theory test + financial exercise with spreadsheet)

REFERENCES


Basic

Fundamentals of business management. Maria Iborra, et.a.

Understand accounting and finance. Oriol Amat

Complementary

Concepts of economics. Paul Hayne