Course detail

Economic Tools for Building Production Management

FAST-CV014Acad. year: 2023/2024

The company needs economic tools for the management of the relation between production costs and sale prices to achieve the production profit. The basic tool is the quality organization of the production. The combination of productive factors regarding their costs on the one side and assurance of the sale on the second side is the supposition of the production efficiency. Determinative is the choice of production activities of the construction company salable on the construction market and bringing the profit. The important economic tool there are prices that must cover costs and to ensure the profit.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Tomáš Hanák, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge of economics and principles of company’s economy

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Cross-sectional subject, whose objective it is to introduce to students selected economic tools for the building production management.


Ability to orient in economy of building production and in valuation with respect to conditions on building market.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Grunenberg Stephen, Francis Noble. Economics of Construction. 2018, Agenda Publishing, ISBN: 9781788210140 (EN)
Synek Miloslav a kolektiv. Manažerská ekonomika. 5., aktualizované a doplněné vydání. 2011, Grada, ISBN: 978-80-247-3494-1 (CS)
Taušl Procházková Petra, Jelínková Eva. Podniková ekonomika - klíčové oblasti. 2018, Grada, ISBN: 978-80-271-0689-9 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch R , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch R , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Tomáš Hanák, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Business plan in construction sector

2. Construction company and production

3. Management of costs for material, stocks

4. Management of costs for the labor power

5. Management of costs for production machines and machinery

6. Valuation of production, prices in construction

7. Investments

8. Company’s finances

9. Taxes, accounting and operational evidence

10. Marketing

11. Systems of organization in the company, types of companies´ association

12. Benchmarking, management of costs for the production regarding the competitive ability of the company

13. Panning spheres and system of plans control, documentation of changes

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Tomáš Hanák, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Assignment of semestral work 2. Marketing Analysis 3. Costs of materials 4. Costs of wages 5. Transport costs 6-7. Calculation of the price of construction work 8. Investment evaluation 9. Price sensitivity analysis 10. Calculation of break-even point 11. The overall evaluation of the investment 12. Presentation of work 13. Handing in and final control