Course detail

Corporate economics

ÚSI-1SAEPAcad. year: 2017/2018

The course is aimed at the core, goals and functions of a company, its property and capital, property and commitment evaluation, yields and costs, outcome of the economy and their mutual relations, cash flow and liquidity. Operational efficiency of a company, basics of financial and investment activities, economical decision-making – calculations, managerial concept of costs, budgets, relations among profit, volume of production, price and costs and tools of economical proceedings (financial accounting, analyses, internal audit) are also a part of this subject.
Further, this subject acquaints students with basic company activities such as production, purchase, personalistics, services. After completing this course, students will be able to consider and practically apply their company economics knowledge.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students gain theoretical knowledge from the field of company economy in connection with individual company activities. On the basis of gained knowledge and skills, students should be able (within the framework of their semestral work) to apply and deal with some of the company activities in a selected company and – from the practical point of view – to understand mutual economical connections within a company

Prerequisites

Students are expected to have general economic knowledge.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching is carried out through lectures and seminars. Lectures consist of interpretations of basic principles, methodology of given discipline, problems and their exemplary solutions. Seminars particularly support practical mastery of subject matter presented in lectures or assigned for individual study with the active participation of students.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Expert knowledge will be tested with a written exam (max. 60).
Students’ skills will be checked with a tests, businessplan, lecture from external experet, individual work. These results can be taken into account at the final exam.

Grading scale:
A 100 – 90
B 89 - 80
C 79 – 70
D 69 – 60
E 59 – 50
F 49 – 0

Course curriculum

Lectures:
- Introduction. Core, goals and functions of the company. Business plan. Company divison. Company surroundings.
- Deliberation. Property and capital. Working and net capital. Liquidity. Indebtedness. Optimal capital structure. Company and commitments evaluation.
- Gain and loss report. Yields and costs, economical outcome and their mutual relations.
- Operational efficiency of a company – rentability ROE, ROA, ROS, ROCE
- Economical decision-making – calculation of total costs. Relations between gain, volume of production, price and costs
- Managerial concept of costs (calculation of variable costs)
- Division of yields and costs from the point of view of the needs of management oriented at decision-making, opportunity costs
- Short-term decision-making tasks. Sensitivity analysis.
- Strategic costs management – calculation according to partial activities – method ABC
- Financial management of a company. Financial analysis. Circulating property management
- Investment management of a company – financial accounting. Costs and managerial accounting.
- Budgeting in market conditions.
- Analyses. Internal audit. Summary.

Seminars:
Every seminar is focused on practical exercising of the company economics.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Goal of the subject is to acquaint students with theoretical knowledge of the company economics. In the lectures, economical aspect of given problems is highlighted and emphasis is laid on acquiring technical terminology.

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

Attendance check is carried out on the basis of completing a test and other
requirements. In case of excused absence in a seminar, teacher can set an alternate condition, usually elaboration of a substitute task.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

SYNEK, M. a kol. Podniková ekonomika. 4.vydání Praha: C. H. BECK, 2006. 479 s. ISBN 80-717-989-24.
KOCMANOVÁ,A.,LUŇÁČEK,J.Ekonomika podniku.1.a 2.díl.1.vyd.Brno:CERM,2005.131s.ISBN 80-214-3017-6.
MIKOVCOVÁ,H.,SCHOLLEOVÁ, H. Praktikum.Podniková ekonomika pro magisterské studium.1.vyd.Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš čeněk,2006.205s.ISBN 80-86898-91-1.

Recommended reading

KONEČNÝ, M. Podniková ekonomika. 3. vyd. Brno:PC DIR, 2001, 254 s. ISBN 80-214-1908-3.
BOUKAL, P, MIKOVCOVÁ, H., SCHOLLEOVÁ, H. Podniková ekonomika: Cvičebnice. Praha:VŠE, 2001. 143s. ISBN 80-245-0141-4.
WÖHE,G. Úvod do podnikového hospodářství. Praha:C.H.BECK, 1995. 748 s. ISBN 80-7179-014-1.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MSoI Master's

    branch EID , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch REI , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer