Professor Angelo Martinelli

. - Business Economics
PROFESSOR ANGELO MARTINELLI
COURSE AIMS
The course is mainly intended to provide the student with the knowledge needed
for analysing and governing companies, and to do so by stimulating the student's
observation capacity and his critical spirit with respect to business events. The
objective is thus that of defining business processes, identifying their structure,
organisation and dynamic aspects, as well as their laws of equilibrium.
Within this framework, the analysis of the criteria for quantitative reporting is
critical as such criteria represent the fundamental tools for guiding the
interpretation of the operational/economic trend of the business and for verifying
the strategic and operational decisions.
COURSE CONTENT
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Business economics: an historical overview.
Companies and their institutional make-up.
Corporate groups.
Corporate and business structure: strategy, organisation and operation.
The reporting of business events.
Income and the income statement.
Equity and the balance sheet.
The financial statements and their information disclosure function.
The financial statements as a control instrument and an instrument for
evaluating the company's strategic and operational decisions.
10) Business economics glossary.
11) Business cases.
READING LIST
G.FERRARA, Economia Aziendale, Mc Graw-Hill, February 2011.
A.MARTINELLI, Quaderni di Economia Aziendale (course instructional material available
online).
TEACHING METHOD
Lectures.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
The grade will be assigned based on an interview.
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