BE_PH_BA1 Business Administration 1

NEWTON University
winter 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/2. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. et Ing. Sylvia Plottová, Ph.D., MSc. (lecturer)
Ing. Jiří Vystrčil (lecturer)
Ing. et Ing. Sylvia Plottová, Ph.D., MSc. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Jiří Vystrčil (seminar tutor)
Ing. et Ing. Sylvia Plottová, Ph.D., MSc. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
Ing. et Ing. Sylvia Plottová, Ph.D., MSc.
Centre for International Programmes – NEWTON University
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course aims to acquaint students with the basics of business economics. Within the course, the student will gain an overview of individual basic business activities, with emphasis on the financial side of the company's activities, as well as the process of converting business inputs into the desired output of the company's activities as a whole. By completing the course, students will get acquainted with the basic concepts of business and entrepreneurship and business typology, then gain knowledge about property and capital construction, costs, revenues and economic results, cost function, including production theory, the importance of calculations and basic calculation methods, sales pricing methods, production, supply and personnel activities of the company, financing of business activities, investment activities of the company and basics of financial analysis and management. The lectures will be immediately followed by seminars in which students will learn and practice basic concepts and contexts. By completing the course, students will be able to reliably apply their professional knowledge and understanding in a specialized field of work in solving problems with a professional approach using modern methods, which they will learn to implement in the course.  
Syllabus
  • Main topics of the course:
  • Enterprise, business, entrepreneurial activity
  • Property and capital structure of the company
  • Financing rules, optimization of capital structure
  • Costs, revenues and economic result
  • Production activity of the company
  • Supply activity of the company
  • Personnel activities of the company
  • Investment activity of the company
  • Buying and selling activities of the company
  • Innovative activity of the company
  • The seminars will address case studies and assignments from the practice of business entities.
Assessment methods
Ungraded credit (on campus): obtaining the specified minimum points for activity in seminars, successful completion of two credit tests, preparation of a case study; (online) submission of a credit case study meeting the specified requirements Examination: (on campus) oral form of examination; (online) defence of the case study, written solution to a problem set and (in-person or online) oral theoretical examination 
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms winter 2020, summer 2023, winter 2023, summer 2024, winter 2024.
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