Official Code: | 6148 |
Acronym: | 2CGD |
The main purpose of the curricular unit Financial Accounting in Sports Management is to develop student´s ability to read, interpret and use corporate financial report, and more particularly to provide the necessary knowledge for the understanding and reading of sports entities’ financial statements.
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Increase the scientific and technical-professional qualification of graduates and, provide the students with skills in the field, specifically in normative reality that surrounds this socio-cultural and economic phenomenon, recognizing in this binomial a legal and plurality space. Thus, they will be able to understand and fulfil in their future academic and professional intervention the legal and political demands of the sportThe course intends to give the students the fundamental knowledge about the financial management of sports organizations. The course will address basic and introductory topics, as well as topics regarding the long-term financial decisions (financing and investment decisions) and also the short-term financial management.
1. Know the field of qualitative researc
2. Knowthe valueof qualitative researchforSport Management
3. Know your application fields
4. Know and apply the main tools for qualitative research
5. Know the capabilities and limitations of research instrument
6. Develop research projects appropriate to the proposed objectiv
7. Interpret the data
With this UC is intended that students are able to choose the instrument most suited to your goals, properly apply it and extract the relevant data for their research
The module of Group Dynamics aims to: i) promote communication, understanding and improving interpersonal relationships in the classroom; and ii) engage the students in a reflection about themselves and the class, defining objectives and intervention strategies.
The module of Leadership aims: i) to review and deepen basic knowledge in leadership; ii) to prepare students to a more reasoned selection of the best methodology to adopt in different situations in their areas of intervention.
The main goal is to bring to the students five major themes of sport: sport, politics, racism, xenophobia and social transformation; Sports and Social Inclusion; Sport, culture and identity; Olympism and social values; Doping, sport's truth and the spirit of sports. Being sport a relevant social fact of contemporary life, through the development of these themes it is intended to promote in the students competences of reflection, analysis and socio-anthropological intervention, indispensable to any protagonist in sport's management field.
Organizational Development Objectives The Organizational development module aims to present students with the historical background of organizational theories through the ages, not avoiding an analysis of the concept of sport and the characterization of the functioning mode of the sports organizations.
The theme of development and sports development his explored, linking up with the concept of strategy and the presentation of tools and planning techniques.
Identifying constraints related to Sport Management within the Communication.
Interpreting through critical understanding the main issues of the Communication in the context of Sports Management.
- Provide the students with knowledge on entrepreneurship/innovation and their (inherent) relations to the creation and management of sport projects.
- Develop the capacity for initiative, the creativity, and the autonomy both at the decision making and implementation level.
- Promote teamwork and leadership of sport projects.
The course program assumes that students already possess some basic marketing concepts, and that way theoretical concepts won’t be taught very deeply and just revised briefly.
Therefore, the course aims at deepening the practical component of using marketing in the context of sports management, and the program structure is aligned with the sequential stages of decision making and planning in marketing.
The course has thus three main objectives:
- to help the students to understand in which way companies/institutions from the sports area can create and deliver value to their customers and define their marketing strategies
- support the development of analytical competences and in applying the theoretical frameworks that will structure the analysis of the markets, industries, etc.
- support the students in the launching of own businesses in the sports area, in particular with digital marketing strategies
1º Obtain a systemic knowledge in fundamental aspects of research (establishing problems and hypothesis, research designs, research project building, links among purposes-hypothesis-design) and their association to quantitative data analysis.
2º Consolidate data analysis knowledge in the following topics: (i) exploratory and descriptive data analysis; (ii) hypothesis testing, from t tests to ANOVA I, parametric and non-parametric; (iii) correlation and multiple regression.
3º Sound knowledge in data control and analysis methods.
4º Obtain proficiency in the use of Excel and SPSS softwares.