BKH_EKOR Corporate economics

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Ing. Jiří Novotný, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. Ing. Bc. Petr Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Michal Kozub (seminar tutor)
Ing. Petr Mikuš, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Ing. Milan Sedláček, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Ing. Bc. Petr Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Business Management – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Vlasta Radová
Timetable
Sun 4. 10. 15:30–18:45 P103, Sat 24. 10. 8:30–11:50 P103, Sun 15. 11. 8:30–11:50 P103
Prerequisites
The course is intended for the second year students of Faculty of Economics and Administration. The course is intended for the first year full-time students of Faculty of natural sciences, field of study - analytical chemist - chemical laboratory manager. The course is intended for the first grade full-time students of Faculty of natural sciences, field of study - physics and management. The course is designed for full-time students of the Faculty of Science - field of study - mathematics-economics.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course of Corporate economics is an introductory and relatively independent part of teaching fundamentals of business economics. Students get acquainted with the construction of a company. It clarifies the objectives of a company, classification of corporate production factors and their mutual relations. It focuses on general issues of corporate economics and economic events in the enterprise, regardless of the affiliation to a particular field or industry, and its profit or non-profit orientation. Along with the follow-up course of Corporate Economy II, where basic business functions and activities are taught, it provides a comprehensive view of a company. The main objective of the course is to obtain basic theoretical and practical knowledge of construction of a company.

At the end fo the course the student should be able to:
- clarify the subject matter and methods of analyzing and a segmentation in business economics
- interpret the structure of corporate production factors, their relationships and structure
- Identify different types and forms of companies
- Understand the causes and forms of business association
- Assess both the national and multinational choice of location the company
- Analyze crisis development of a company and to describe this stage of its life cycle

The knowledge gained in this course is further developed in the course of Corporate Economy 2, where topics such as business activities and functions are taught. Altogether, these two courses provide a comprehensive view of a company.
Syllabus
  • 1) Company as a part of national economy and the subject of corporate economy

  • 2) Corporate production factors and company management as a production factor

  • 3) System of corporate goals, tools and management principles

  • 4) Planning and decission-making in corporation

  • 5) Organisation of a corporation

  • 6) Human labour performance and influencing factors

  • 7) Remuneration

  • 8) Long-term tangible assets and material as production factors

  • 9) Legal form of corporations

  • 10) Sole traders and small and middle-sized companies

  • 11) Business associations

  • 12) Selection of corporate location

  • 13) Recapitalization and shutdown of a company

Literature
  • WÖHE, Günter and Eva KISLINGEROVÁ. Úvod do podnikového hospodářství. Translated by Zuzana Maňasová. 2. přeprac. a dopl. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2007, xxix, 928. ISBN 9788071798972. info
  • NOVOTNÝ, Jiří. Nauka o podniku- výstavba podniku. 1st ed. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2007, 213 pp. ISBN 978-80-7380-071-0. info
  • SYNEK, Miloslav. Podniková ekonomika. Vyd. 1. Praha: C.H. Beck, 1999, xxii, 456. ISBN 8071792284. info
  • NOVOTNÝ, Jiří and Petr SUCHÁNEK. Nauka o podniku I (The Business Economics I). 1st ed. Brno: MU ESF Brno, 2004, 164 pp. 1. ISBN 80-210-3333-9. info
Teaching methods
Education proceeds as lectures, that are teoretical preparing of students in the framework of discussed issues (according syllabus). This teoretical preparing is applied in the frameworkm of POTs, where students solve praktical examples (problems) concrete company according to respective problem issue, that students sort out. Students learn to solve choice problem from organization practises and they gain practises skills too.
Assessment methods
Conditions of successful completion of the course: elaboration of an POT and successfully passed mid-term on-line tests (limit 60% for each test).


Examination: one-choice test, 20 questions. 12 points (60%) is the minimum number of points for a pass.
If student commits a prohibited act, such as usage of various forbidden tools, cribbing, taking out any part of the exam or any other cheating, teacher is allowed to interrupt an exam and to grade a student with F, FF or FFF according to the seriousness of the offence
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
General note: Nezapisují si studenti, kteří absolvovali předmět KHNOPI.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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