18056 - Business Balance Sheets

Academic Year 2026/2027

  • Docente: Matteo Santi
  • Credits: 10
  • SSD: ECON-06/A
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Matteo Santi (Modulo 1) Filippo Lo Piccolo (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 1); In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in International Development and Cooperation (cod. 8890)

    Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics, Markets and Institutions (cod. 6644)

Learning outcomes

the class has as goal to learn how to read a financial statement and some first approach to understand objective, measures and feed - back of the information system

Course contents

Elements to comprehend the annual financial report and management tools

financial accounting methods ad annual balance sheet (see the italian section)

concepts on financial analysis and indexes method (decision based on balance sheet numbers)

traditional and innovative management control system

balanced scorecard applied to various typologies of firms

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

slides posted by teachers in VIRTUALE (italian)

some chapters of books (see the italian section, books are in italian)

Teaching methods

traditional tools like slides and business cases

Assessment methods

multiple choices or open questions

grade: insufficiente <18; sufficiente 18-23; buono 24-27; ottimo 28-30; eccellente 30 e lode

Office hours

See the website of Matteo Santi

See the website of Filippo Lo Piccolo