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IS200103 Business economics - engineering programmes

Course Code
IS200103

Course Name
Business economics - engineering programmes

Credits
6.00

Target Audience
2. year students in engineering

Prerequisites

Minimum university college entrance requirements.

Objectives

The course shall give the students basic knowledge in business economic theory and methods as well as a survey of the various functions of the business enterprise. The students shall be aware of the importance of accounting data in the management of enterprises

Topics

* Costs, classification of costs and theory of demand.
* The theory of market adaptations
* Product calculation methods
* About the companys annual report
* Traditional analysis of the financial statements: ratios as tools of analysing profitability, liquidity and capital structure.
* Investment anlysis
* About the budgeting process
* Some business related decision problems: Simple analysis of constraints and optimal mix of produts, cost-volume-profit analysis, JIT, outsourcing.

Instruction

Lectures, group- and individual exercises.
The learning management system Classfronter will to some extent be used in the exchange of information.

Mandatory Assignments

1 compulsory paper must be handed in for assesment. ICT tools to be used in the preparation of papers. Case and case-solution (in one copy) must be brought to the final exam and shall be handed in together with the examination papers.

Evaluation

The case and case-solution (in one copy) must be brought to a 3-hour written exam. At this exam the problems raised in the case will also be tested. The case-solution must be handed in together with the examination papers. The same case and case-solution is to be used at the resit exam.

Grades
ABCDEF

Revised date
2006.06.16