Università Roma Tre

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CORPORATE ORGANISATIONS
1) The firm as an economic entity: General characteristics of the firm. Corporate entities: legal and economic identity. Types of firms.
2) The firm in its broader economic perspective: The enterprise as an individual economic undertaking: private enterprises and state-owned enterprises. The company’s purpose. Financial and economic stability as a prerequisite of a company’s existence. Economic stability and different types of economic operability. Payment for operating and production inputs used by enterprises. Corporate risk and who bears it. Income and company profitability.
3) The organizational structure as part of the decision-making process; management control in modern corporations: Evolution of the corporate organizational models shaping the decision-making structure. Control exercised in corporations by different stakeholders. The planning and control function in modern corporations.
4) Corporate funding: Capital requirements, and how much is needed. Corporate funding: equity and debt capital in their various forms. Funding through cash generation. Capital structure of the company; choice of cost-efficient financing options; the dynamic relationship between equity and debt capital. Short-term capital and long-term financing.
MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT OF COMPANY PERFORMANCE
1) The accounting logic: Rationale. Nature of data to be examined. Methodologies. The corporate record-keeping system in a broad sense.
2) Accounting practice: The theory of double entry bookkeeping. Double entry bookkeeping applied to manufacturing companies. Bookkeeping entries for general business transactions, initiating joint-stock companies, special transactions (wages and salaries, financial transactions etc…), adjusting entries and year-end closing entries. Practical exercises in applying accounting record-keeping systems and measurement principles to business transactions.

Paoloni M., Paoloni P. (a cura di), Introduzione ed orientamento allo studio delle aziende, Giappichelli, 2009
Paoloni M., Celli, M. (a cura di), Introduzione alla contabilità generale, CEDAM, 2012

Alternatively:

David Boddy, Management: an Introduction, Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2011
Leslie K. Breitner and Robert N. Anthony, Essentials of Accounting, Pearson, 2013

Program
1) Organisations and entities.
General characters: Aims of organisations. "Legal entity" and "economic entity." Various types of organisations
2) Broader characters of an Organisation.
Private and public companies. Equilibrium conditions. Possible ways to remunerate resources used by the organisation. The business risk. Income and profit.
3) Funding
The need for capital and its determination. Corporate finance, "equity" and "debt capital"; corporate self-financing; the dynamic relationship between "equity" and "debt capital". A corporate' s financial structure.
4) Accounting as a tool for information
Logical moments. The nature of facts under investigation. Methods.
5) The accounting recognition
Theory of the double-entry accounting. Systematic and comprehensive recording of financial transactions pertaining to a business.

Part I: The Economy of the Company: Business Economics and Accounting. The study of the conditions of existence of the corporate body; the personal component and the operating means of the company. Object of the company. Corporate subjects: "legal entities" and "economic subject". Organization. The organizational structures. Various types of company. The institution of the company, its location, its size.
The supply company: general characteristics and management schemes. Production companies for the exchange of goods and services: companies. The aims of the company. The economic balance as a fundamental condition of the life of the company. Economic balance and economy. The possible ways of remunerating the productive factors used by the company. The business risk and the subjects on which it weighs. Business efficiency. The process of forming the company's income. The capital requirement and its determination. Company financing: equity and credit capital in their various forms; corporate self-financing; the choice of convenient forms of financing; the dynamic relationship between equity and credit capital. The financial structure of the company.
The process of dimensional growth of companies: the main characteristics, nature, structure, internal exchange and production operations in groups of companies.
Part II: Accounting elements: Double-entry theory and method. The double-entry method applied to the income system in production companies. The accounting records of the incorporation operations and of the main operations. The accounts for closing and reopening the accounts.

Zanda, Fondamenti di Economia Aziendale, Giappichelli, ultima edizione
oppure
Zanda, Lineamenti di Economia Aziendale, Kappa, ultima edizione

L. MUSERRA, T.ONESTI, Esercitazioni di economia aziendale, Giappichelli, 2013 (ebook, available on the website giappichelli.it).
Please refer to the onestieconomiaaziendale.wordpress.com course page for course material.

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CORPORATE ORGANISATIONS
1) The firm as an economic entity: General characteristics of the firm. Corporate entities: legal and economic identity. Types of firms.
2) The firm in its broader economic perspective: The enterprise as an individual economic undertaking: private enterprises and state-owned enterprises. The company’s purpose. Financial and economic stability as a prerequisite of a company’s existence. Economic stability and different types of economic operability. Payment for operating and production inputs used by enterprises. Corporate risk and who bears it. Income and company profitability.
3) The organizational structure as part of the decision-making process; management control in modern corporations: Evolution of the corporate organizational models shaping the decision-making structure. Control exercised in corporations by different stakeholders. The planning and control function in modern corporations.
4) Corporate funding: Capital requirements, and how much is needed. Corporate funding: equity and debt capital in their various forms. Funding through cash generation. Capital structure of the company; choice of cost-efficient financing options; the dynamic relationship between equity and debt capital. Short-term capital and long-term financing.
MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT OF COMPANY PERFORMANCE
1) The accounting logic: Rationale. Nature of data to be examined. Methodologies. The corporate record-keeping system in a broad sense.
2) Accounting practice: The theory of double entry bookkeeping. Double entry bookkeeping applied to manufacturing companies. Bookkeeping entries for general business transactions, initiating joint-stock companies, special transactions (wages and salaries, financial transactions etc…), adjusting entries and year-end closing entries. Practical exercises in applying accounting record-keeping systems and measurement principles to business transactions.

Paoloni M., Paoloni P. (a cura di), Introduzione ed orientamento allo studio delle aziende, Giappichelli, 2009
Paoloni M., Celli, M. (a cura di), Introduzione alla contabilità generale, CEDAM, 2012