32741 - Company Performance Measurement Systems

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Moduli: Riccardo Silvi (Modulo 1) Alberto Balestreri (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (cod. 0906)

Learning outcomes

  • To obtain basic knowledge on financial analysis and performance measurement systems of firms and financial institutions
  • To acquire the tools and techniques for developing a financial analysis of firms and financial institutions
  • To learn how to assess  firm's and financial institutions profitability and financial position
  • To apply financial analysis techniques for supporting the management decision making process
  • To develop financial institutions performance measurement systems

Course contents

  • Income statement and balance sheet analysis: tools and methods
  • Key performance and profitability  ratios
  • Key financial ratios
  • Operating and financial risk analysis
  • Economic and financial benchmarking
  • Financial institutions balance sheet
  • Financial analysis of finacial institutions
  • Financial institutions performance measurement systems

Readings/Bibliography

  • R.Silvi, Analisi di bilancio: la prospettiva manageriale, McGraw Hill, Milano, 2006.
  • R. Silvi, Il controllo strategico nella gestione dell'impresa, in Lipparini A., Economia e gestione delle imprese, pp. 435-464, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.

Teaching methods

Lectures, case studies

Assessment methods

Project work, written and oral test

Links to further information

http://www.moodle.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=179

Office hours

See the website of Riccardo Silvi

See the website of Alberto Balestreri