Course detail
Corporate Economics
FP-cePAcad. year: 2017/2018
Corporate economics consider basic theoretic knowledge from the corporate economy theme. This course is designed as a comprehensive overview of corporate economics theory. Course cover a number of topics including production analysis, break - even analysis, accounting profit and economic profit, capital budgeting, managerial decision making, fund flow statement a budget and budgetary control. You will be equipped with a set of concepts and analytical tools that will allow you to approach and analyse a wide variety of common corporate economic questions. Further students will be able to gain company’s economy knowledge connected to each field of company’s activity. Concerning the gained course knowledge and as part of the course evaluation, students should be able to apply it to concrete company’s activity, process or to try to solve the problem in specific field of the company’s activity.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Concerning the gained course knowledge and as part of the course evaluation, students should be able to apply it to concrete company’s activity, process or to try to solve the problem in specific field of the company’s activity.
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Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
There is also one control test.
Passing the control test: 30 points
Minimum number of points: 17 points.
Correction term is the only one in the credit week.
A 100 – 90
B 89 - 80
C 79 – 70
D 69 – 60
E 59 – 50
F 49 - 0
Course curriculum
• Definition and Meaning of Corporate Economics. Role and Responsibilities of Corporate Economics.
• Production Analysis. Production Functions - Law of variable proportions - Producers equilibrium - economics of scale - Cost concepts - Cost & Output relationship - Cost Control & Cost Reduction.
• Break - Even Analysis. Meaning, determination of Break - Even Point - Even Analysis.
• Profit & Profit Management. Accounting profit and economic profit - Theories of Profit.
• Capital Budgeting. Need for capital budgeting - forms of capital budgeting. Project profitability: Methods of Appraising Project Profitability.
• Managerial Decision Making. Risk & Uncertainty - Elements of Decision Theory - Classification of Managerial Problems - Decision taking under certainty & uncertainty.
• Ratio Analysis: Profitability Ratio - Turnover Ratio - Solvency Ratio.
• Fund Flow Statement. Meaning – Uses of Fund Flow Statement – Schedule of Changes in Working Capital – Funds Flow Statement – Cash Flow Statement – Meaning – Uses – Difference between Fund Flow Statement and Cash Flow Statement.
• Budget and Budgetary Control. Meaning of Budget and Budgetary Control. Advantages and Disadvantages – Sales Budget- Production Budget – Cash Budget – Flexible Budget.
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Learning outcomes:
Knowledge: Further students will be able to gain company’s economy knowledge connected to each field of company’s activity.
Skills: Students will be equipped with a set of concepts and analytical tools that will allow students to approach and analyse a wide variety of common corporate economic questions.
Eligibility: Concerning the gained course knowledge and as part of the course evaluation, students should be able to apply it to concrete company’s activity, process or to try to solve the problem in specific field of the company’s activity.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
DAVID E. Financial Analysis and Decision Making. 2003 McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-141559-9. (EN)
KOCMANOVÁ, A., LUŇÁČEK, J. Enterprise Economics. 1.a 2.díl. 1.vyd. Brno, 2007. (EN)
SYNEK, M. Manažerská ekonomika. Praha: Grada, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-1992-4 (CS)
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