UCL - Business economics

[TRAV2610]

[30h] 5 credits

Teacher(s): Alain Vas

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

The course aims to provide an overall view of the problems facing enterprises, and to introduce stu-dents to an analysis of enterprise strategies, and particularly to the basic logic of decisions.

Main themes

Les stratégies d'entreprise : choix et équilibre de l'organisation, politique de produit, système d'infor-mation, cohérence des objectifs, relations avec l'environnement économique.
Concepts essentiels de l'analyse des bilans et l'interprétation des informations financières de l'entre-prise.
Analyse de décisions et de leur logique tels que par exemple l'analyse des coûts et les décisions d'in-vestissement.

Content and teaching methods

Enterprise strategies: choice and balance of the organisation, product policy, in-formation system, consistency of objectives, and relations with the economic envi-ronment.
Key concepts of balance-sheet analysis, and the interpretation of company finan-cial information.
Analysis of decisions and of their logic (e.g. by an analysis of costs and invest-ment decisions).

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

This course forms part of a study programme that takes place in the evenings and on Saturday mornings.