Business Administration is a core unit in the 3-year degree which addresses the principles and logics underpinning the operations of businesses. This is the first unit in the business studies area that first-year students take on in their degree.
The course aims to introduce and discuss the fundamental features of an economic organization, with specific reference to the company. The course provides several basic notions enabling students to understand how companies operate. The specific focus will be on the conditions for going concern and on the principles and the techniques of double-entry bookkeeping system.
The Business Administration unit aims at providing the first-year students with a solid basic knowledge of the principles and logics underpinning the operations of businesses. In particular, the unit intends to:
By the end of this unit, students will acquire competence in the main issues of business administration, such as:
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and comprehension: students will acquire solid knowledge and factual ability to explain the logics of business operations, including a focus on the nature and activities of businesses, as systematic economic entities that generate wealth and require economic and financial stability to stay viable.
Ability to apply knowledge: Students will be able to apply their acquired knowledge to understand and solve simple and more complex problems concerning business management, organisation and accounting, especially in consideration of the company’s financial and economic stability.
Capability of learning to learn: students will be able to organise and assess their own learning and manage their career
Critical judgment: Students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge using their own judgment and critical reasoning, both theoretically and practically.
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The unit makes use of the following teaching methodologies:
Students with a valid certificate of physical or learning disabilities who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework, and exams, should talk with the instructor and Professor Serena Scotto (scotto@economia.unige.it), the Department’s disability liaison.
The unit develops along these content lines:
A list of the chapters that are covered in the final exam is provided at the beginning of the semester on Aulaweb.
The textbook will be also available in the e-book version.
Additional materials will be uploaded on Aulaweb at the beginning of and during the semester.
Ricevimento: Gli studenti possono prendere un appuntamento per il ricevimento inviando una email al docente (giulia.leoni@unige.it) All'avvio del 1° semestre verrà fissato un appuntamento fisso settimanale per il ricevimento che sarà inserito in questa sezione. Students can arrange office hours with the teacher by sending an email to giulia.leoni@unige.it With the start of Semester 1 students will be notified here about the time and date of the weekly office hours.
GIULIA LEONI (President)
ELISA BONOLLO
ELISA RONCAGLIOLO
September 2024
The final exam is a written exam to assess the student’s theoretical and practical learning. It is the same assessment both for attending and non-attending students. The final exam is a mix of practical and theoretical questions in the form of exercises, open questions and multiple-choice questions.
During the semester when the course is taught, the final exam can be replaced – if offered by the course coordinator – by in-course assessments. The dates, modes, and contents of these in-course assessments will be communicated via AulaWeb during the semester.
More details on the exams will be communicated to the students at the beginning of the semester via AulaWeb and during the first lecture.
The exam aims at acertain that the student is capable to effectively explain the nature of the business and its dynamics, and to apply theoretical concepts to solve problems regarding the preservation of the economic and financial stability of the businesses.
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