Industrial Management I

Code:

EM401

Acronym:

GE1

Instance: 2003/2004 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://www.fe.up.pt/~ndsoares
Responsible unit:	Industrial Management and Engineering Section
Course/CS Responsible:	Mechanical Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEM	121	Plano de Estudos EM Oficial a partir de 2000	4	4	4,5	-
		Plano para Bachareis EM a partir 2000	1	4	4,5	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To provide students the necessary tools to correctly understand the firms financial environment and reality, namely:
- financial accounting;
- financial analysis;
- topics of decision making.

Program

- Financial accounting:
- Study of the accounts;
- Study of the dalance-sheet and profit & loss statement.
- Financial analysis:
- Ratio analysis;
- Cash flow analysis.
- Financial equilibrium;
- Corporate financial aplications;
- Funding;
- Topics of decision making techniques;
- Intruduction to capital budgeting.

Main Bibliography

- Elementos de Contabilidade Geral, António Borges, Azevedo Rodrigues e Rogério Rodrigues, Edit. Rei dos Livros - 17ª Ed., 2000
- Instrumentos Financeiros, "Texto Editora", Carlos Bastardo
- Análise Financeira - Métodos e técnicas; "Texto Editora"; João Carvalho das Neves
- Management and Cost Accounting - 5th Edition; "Thomson Business Press"; Colin Drury
- Matemática Financeira Aplicada; "Edições ASA", Miguel Cadilhe

Teaching methods and learning activities

This course unit consists of lectures followed by discussion and analysis of applications/cases/exercices.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Calculation formula of final grade

Ordinary students

final grade=25%*(first_test)+35%*(second_test)+30%*group_work+10%*class_paricipation

Working students (with no class attendance):
- Tests:
- First test: 30% of final grade;
- Second test: 40% of final grade;
- Group work: 30% of final grade.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

- One exam substituting the two tests;
- Final grade: 70%*Exam+30%Group_work

Classification improvement

- It isn't considered this possibility