- Docente: Riccardo Silvi
- Credits: 9
- SSD: SECS-P/07
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Management for Social Economy (cod. 8843)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Commerce (cod. 0905)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration and Sustainability (cod. 6797)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration and Sustainability (cod. 6797)
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from Sep 23, 2025 to Dec 11, 2025
Course contents
The course is divided into two modules.
Module 1 will focus business financial analysis and includes the following topics:
- Business model financial performance and value creation
- Profitability ratios and drivers of profitability
- Assets management ratios
- Financial policy ratios for liquidity and assets coverage analysis
- Operating, financial and overall risk assessment ratios
- Benchmarking
Module 2 will focus on strategic cost analysis and will provide the theoretical framework, models and tools for competitive cost management. Specifically, this module covers the following topics:
- Cost management: the framework
-Activity and process cost analysis techniques
-Cost driver analysis
-Cost planning and prevention: life cycle cost, value analysis and target costing techniques
-Cost management for business modelling
Readings/Bibliography
To be annouced on course e-learning platform
Teaching methods
Lectures and case discussion
Assessment methods
Written test and project work (project work only for class attending students)
18-23: the student has sufficient preparation and analytical skills, spread however, over just few topics taught in the course, the overall jargon is correct
24-27: the student shows and adequate preparation at a technical level with some doubts over the topics. Good, yet not to articulate analytical skills with the use of a correct jargon
28-30: Great knowledge about most of the topics taught in the course, good critical and analytical skills, good usage of the specific jargon
30L: excellent and in depth knowledge of all the topics in the course, excellent critical and analytical skills, excellent usage of specific jargon
Teaching tools
Powerpoint class presentations, additional information about the program, cases and problems are available in the e-learning web site (https://virtuale.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=46502)
Office hours
See the website of Riccardo Silvi