Course detail

Structural Firm

FAST-BV53Acad. year: 2013/2014

Management of the production in the structural firm
Efficiency of firm’s structural activity
Planning in the structural firm. Firm’s evidence and information
Control of firm’s activity with the use of control systems

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

To get knowledge of cost management in the construction company with the use of control systems.Procedures of cost planning, their recording and methods of consequent control with the implementation of measures.Production profit management with regard to the structure of the construction contracts.To acquire skills to plan production costs in the construction company, suggest ways of their evidence and control with the use of control systems. Acquiring the ability to manage costs and profits on construction contracts.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of labour engineering and fundamentals of costing and price setting in civil engineering, company finances and accounting.

Co-requisites

Technical and structural knowledge, manufacturing processesin all types of construction, financing and taxes.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures, practical classes and self-study assignments. Attendance at lectures is optional, but attendance at classes is compulsory.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Evaluation of obtained skills by written test. Successful completion of the test requires acquisition of min.50 points. The evaluation is partially supplemented by an oral examination. Assessment of skills on practices is made according to attendance, handing in and defending of semestral work on particular task “Optimization of costs in the construction company”.

Course curriculum

1.–3. Costs in the firm, the costs theory
4.–5. Material economy
6. Wages, salaries and the labour power
7. Working machines and machinery
8. Efficiency of the firm’s activity
9.–10. Planning
11. Basic attributes of the controlling in the civil firm
12. Basic attributes of the benchmarking
13. Firm’s evidence

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To acquire ability to manage production costs in construction firm with utilisation of control systems.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Appropriate participation in projects on cost management and profit creation during construction production, in projects of cost management and profit-making of construction contracts.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

MARKOVÁ Leonora a kol.: Principles of economy of building firm. Brno: CERM, s.r.o., 2002. ISBN 80-214-2179-7. (EN)
MARKOVÁ,Leonora: Stavební podnik. Brno: VUT FAST Brno, 2008. [http://www.fce.vutbr.cz/studium/materialy/autocad/ucebnice.pdf] (CS)

Recommended reading

SYNEK, Miloslav a kolektiv: Manžerská ekonomika. Praha: GRADA Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-1992-4. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's

    branch E , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's

    branch E , 4. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch E , 4. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch E , 4. year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1.–3. Costs in the firm, the costs theory
4.–5. Material economy
6. Wages, salaries and the labour power
7. Working machines and machinery
8. Efficiency of the firm’s activity
9.–10. Planning
11. Basic attributes of the controlling in the civil firm
12. Basic attributes of the benchmarking
13. Firm’s evidence

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Assignment of semestral work
2. Calendar working time
3. Costs for labor
4. Costs for material
5. Costs and revenues
6. Production calculation
7. Performance indicators
8-10. Modelling measures for next year
11. Evaluation of model measures and their combination
12. Control and handing-in semestral work, presentation of results
13. Semestral work defending