66798 - Control Systems

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Commerce (cod. 0905)

Learning outcomes

This course provides the basic knowledge, framework and tool to analyse, design, implement and perform a management control system.
Specifically at the end of this course the student will be able to:
- comprehend the role of management control in business organization
- acquire the tools and techniques for performing the management control function
- analyse and design a management control system

Course contents

  • Management control: task and role in business organization
  • Types of control
  • The management control system: responsability centers, key performance parameters and the process of control
  • Performance measurement systems: traditional vs advanced
  • Management control systems effectiveness
  • The design of management control systems
  • Financial control

Readings/Bibliography

To be announced

Teaching methods

Lecturers, problems and case studies analysis

Assessment methods

Written test

Teaching tools

Powerpoint class presentations, additional information about the program, cases and exercises with solutions are available in the e-learning web site (  http://www.moodle.unibo.it/  )

Office hours

See the website of Riccardo Silvi