Course: Business Economics

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Course title Business Economics
Course code KKM/EKPO
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
Lectures 1. Enterprise and its surroundings; Divisions; Start-up 2. Founding budget; Property; Valuation 3. Capital; Balance sheet; Profit 4. Revenues and Costs (divisions, concepts, functions, charts, calculations, management, etc.) 5. Profit (continue); Calculation formula 6. Reversal point (analysis, constant linear and non-linear) 7. Cash flow 8. Pricing 9. Supply 10. Stock management 11. Production activity of the enterprise 12. Production function and Optimization 13. Investment business 14. Rehabilitation and extinction of the company Exercises 1. Introduction: materials, assignment of semestral papers 2. Enterprise and business: neighborhood; life; objectives; functions; typology 3. Ownership structure of the enterprise 4. Company's capital structure 5. Revenues and costs 6. Economic result and Calculation 7. Reversal point 8. Volume of production 9. Cash flow 10. Production activity and capacity 11. Purchasing; Sales 12. Finance and Investments 13. Founding budget 14. Test

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Demonstration
  • Preparation for classes - 64 hours per semester
  • Class attendance - 56 hours per semester
  • Semestral paper - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 40 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Student will theoretically encompass the lectures on the subject of the economy of the company, learn terminology, basic charts, divisions and functions. During the exercises, individual chapters listen to students (call for separate preparation and preparation assignment). In addition to the theoretical page (development of abstract thinking), the practical side, i.e. a reference to practice, will also be taken into account.
Student understands the basic economic terms, relations and phenomena related to the economy of the company. On the basis of the information obtained, they are better able to orientate and decide in specific situations of the company and its phases.
Prerequisites
The course is not subject to any other material. However, a certain amount of information is recommended in the economic field (basics of economics).

Assessment methods and criteria
Combined exam

Credit requirements: active participation in seminars (max. 2 absences), semestral work in the range of 5 - 10 pp. (according to the assignment) Exam requirements: written test (5 questions of type of multichoice + 2 numerical economic examples, min. success = 60 %)
Recommended literature
  • MIKOVCOCÁ, H., SCHOLLEOVÁ, H. Praktikum podnikové ekonomiky pro bakalářské studium. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7380-209-7.
  • SCHOLLEOVÁ, H. Podniková ekonomika. Sbírka příkladů a případových studií. Praha: C.H.Beck, 2015.
  • SYNEK, M. - KISLINGEROVÁ, E. Podniková ekonomika. 6. přepracované a doplněné vydání. 2015.


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