81504 - System Dynamics and Control (Laboratory)

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Accounting (cod. 0900)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student knows how to use a modeling superstructure (System Dynamics) to support multidimensional control systems and correlate to it appropriate rewarding/ incentive mechanisms for corporate management.

Course contents

1. Management control system and management consulting

 

2. Cost control to support business decisions

 

3. Data analysis and company information system

 

4. Data mining and business intelligence systems

 

5. Management reporting package: business case

Readings/Bibliography

Handouts and presentations provided by the teacher at the beginning of the course

Teaching methods

Frontal and remote lessons

 

Development of business cases through the use of computer applications

Assessment methods

Development of a business case

Teaching tools

Microsoft Office 365 (in particular Ms Excel)

Microsoft PowerBI

Office hours

See the website of Alessandro Capodaglio