•GUIDA ECONOMIA 07-08 - Università degli studi di Udine

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Meaning of measurement and performance.
Recommended processes and
models to measure performance and context
conditions.
3. Measurement of group performance in
relation to the annual financial report
Annual financial report. Purposes, characteristics,
targets, technicalities.
Accounting literature: Italian and International
accounting statements, civil law
and tax law. Purpose and main principles,
application framework and reporting
standards, application framework and
specific evaluation criteria and accounting
policies.
4. Measurement of network performance in
relation to of the annual financial report in
networks and other aggregative models
Value aggregation referred to other
aggregative models.
5. Measurement of group and enterprise performance
Unidimensional and multidimensional
models used to measure group performance.
Analysis of the main proposals,
features, benefits and limits. Value-based
models to measure the performance of
groups. Analysis of the main proposals,
features, benefits and limits.
6. Workshop
Case studies, project work, encounters
with entrepreneurs and cfos.
Pre-requisites
Business Economics, Accounting 1.
Accounting 2 (recommended), Methodologies
and Quantitative Business Costing
1 (recommended).
Bibliography
Books, papers, reviews and specific web
sites will be recommended at the beginning
and during the course. Some materials
are available on the web site
http://www.eugeniocomuzzi.it
Exam
A written examination and a possible oral
test. Pre-tests may be recommended during
the course.
HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
Prof. Paolo Pecorari
Aims
The course outlines the historical-critical
evolution of the main economic theories,
with regard to the scientific and cultural
context in which they were formulated.
Moreover, the complexity of existing relations
between doctrines, economic systems
and economic policy is dealt with.
Contents
Outline of economic thought from antiquity
to the Middle Ages. The birth of economics
as a science: R. Cantillon, F.
Quesnay, A. Smith. The Malthusian principle
of population. Formalization of classical
analysis in D. Ricardo. Re-interpretation
of the economic law concept and
explanation of the stationary state by J. S.
Mill. Marxian economics: the labour market
and the creation of surplus-value, its
accumulation and the law of potential
decrease in the profit rate. Social Christian
economics. A. Marshall and fundamental
neo-classical economics. Marginalism.
The Keynes turning-point. Some
contemporary economic thought trends.
Bibliography
Class notes and recommended readings.
HISTORY OF INSURANCE
AND SOCIAL WELFARE
Prof. Andrea Cafarelli
Aims
The course outlines the evolutionary
aspects of insurance and forms of social
welfare with regard to modern economies,
considering complexity in the national