Firm management and organisation

lbir1360  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Firm management and organisation
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
3 credits
30.0 h + 7.5 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
De Muelenaere Pierre;
Language
English
Prerequisites
LBIR1260  Principes d'économie

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
This course studies: - enterprise in the economic environment, - organisation design and framework, - fundamental aspects of enterprise analysis (variable factors, human resources, capital) - fundamental tools of enterprise management: accounting, financial analysis, risk analysis, investments profitability analysis, decision analysis, and marketing - strategic aspects of enterprise management in agricultural and food sector: enterprise/ environment, innovation-patent-intellectual ownership rights, enterprise growth, vertical versus horizontal integration.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 This course is an introduction of enterprises functioning and management in agricultural, food and bio-industrial sectors. The objective of this course is the study and application of fundamental concepts and tools of enterprise management. At the end of this course, the student should master fundamental concepts and be able to analyse autonomously typical problems of enterprise management in the agricultural and food sector.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
1. Introduction 2. The theory of the firm: why do firm exist? 3. Enterprise design and economic environment 4. Fundamental aspects of enterprise management 5. Accounting system and cost management 6. Financial analysis and management 7. Investment decision and risk analysis 8. Budgets management and analysis 9. Strategic management, innovation and growth
Evaluation methods
Evaluation : written examination, based on both the theory and the exercises.
Teaching team: professor and assistant.
Theoretic course with exercises.
Faculty or entity
AGRO


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Bachelor in Bioengineering

Master [120] in Biochemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology