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Second cycle degree

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

COD. 5003
WEBSITE
A.Y. 2016/2017
CLASS:
LM-77 - Classe delle lauree magistrali in Scienze economico-aziendali
Years of study: 2
Credits (CFU): 120
Mode of study: full-time
FREE-ACCESS COURSE

6 places available for Non-EU citizens
including 2 places reserved to Chinese citizens

Enrolment: from July 20th 2016, 12.00 h, to October 21st 2016

COURSE STRUCTURE DIAGRAM WITH CREDITS

CORSO GENERICO (curriculum)

Year of study: 1

Year of study: 2

Profile of the programme

The Second Cycle Degree Course in Business Administration mainly focuses on subjects belonging to the disciplinary area of Economics and Business Administration. Such subjects are enriched with statistic notions for the retrieval and elaboration of the necessary data for the decisional processes in companies, economic competences concerning problem solving, history of businesses and financial sciences legal expertise on commercial and bankruptcy law and on tax law. The course aims at producing business economists having an adequate juridical background and in-depth methodological knowledge in economics, business administration and the related laws. Future graduates will acquire the necessary expertise and tools in order to deal with the different economic aspects of a company through an interdisciplinary and integrated approach.
In particular, the Course provides graduates with the following competences:
- use of the methodology, knowledge and abilities for roles of responsibility in companies management;
- adequate economic and quantitative expertise in order to deal with the specific investigation tools for research activities applied to the decisions made by the company;
- in-depth knowledge of the different accounting languages/concepts at a national and international level;
- advanced study on production enterprises;
- analysis of the enterprise context through an interdisciplinary approach;
- laws regulating companies and societies;
- tax law and elements of international tax system.

Graduates in Business Administration acquire specific competences in public and private business management and administration and in freelance professional activities regarding business consulting. In particular, graduates can find an occupation as:
- CEO or manager;
- accountant (after obtaining State qualification);
- legal-economic consultant;
- auditor (after obtaining State qualification);
- controller;
- internal auditor;
- investor relation manager.

Admission requirements

The course is openly accessible to any students meeting such requirements (no limited number of enrolments).
Admission to the Second Cycle Degree Course in Business Administration requires:

1) a first cycle degree, or a second cycle degree or equivalent, in one of the following scientific disciplinary sector: (SDS) L-18 or LM 77 (former 270/04), 17 or 84/S (former 509/99), as well as specific competences regarding the subject group SECS-P/07 certified by at least 15 credits acquired in such subjects;
or
2) a different degree from one of the aforementioned ones, provided that the applicant has acquired:
- at least 15 credits from subject group SECS-P/07;
- at least 10 credits from one or more of the following subject groups: SECS-P/01, SECS-P/02, SECS-P/03, SECS-P/06 or SECS-P/12;
- at least 10 credits from one or more of the following subject groups: SECS-S/01, SECS-S/03 or SECS-S/06;
- at least 10 credits from one or more of the following subject groups: IUS/01 or IUS/04.
or
3) an equivalent qualification obtained abroad and officially recognized as valid.

Graduates possessing a first cycle degree with a grade of 95/110 or higher can directly access the degree course. Graduates possessing a first cycle degree with a grade lower than 95/110 can access the course after preliminary assessment of their individual competences on the following areas: business administration, general and management accounting, commercial law.

Key learning outcomes

The Second Cycle Degree Course in Business Administration provides future graduates with the following competences:
- use of the necessary methodology, knowledge and abilities for roles of responsibility in companies management and administration (corporate governance and management control);
- adequate economic and quantitative expertise in order to deal with the specific investigation tools for research activities applied to the decisions made by the company;
- in-depth knowledge of the different accounting languages at a national and international level;
- advanced study on production enterprises, with focus on the main types of business networks;
- analysis of the enterprise context through an interdisciplinary approach;
- laws regulating companies and societies, especially as regards the juridical aspects of extraordinary interventions and laws regulating contractual procedures;
- tax law and elements of international tax system in order to acquire the necessary expertise for operating in international markets.

More specifically, the course provides graduates with the necessary competences for advanced consulting in: business governance and auditing; bookkeeping; annual balance sheet and business income tax; matters in network companies and consolidated balance drawing; planning and control of public enterprises; organisation of the analytical accounting system and evaluation of product cost; financial-economic assessment of extraordinary operations and management of the related accounting, tax and civil attainment; analysis of public and private companies trends, accounting and balance sheet; evaluation of business networks through consolidated techniques and established practice and analysis of the financial structure of the company; economic, financial and tax consulting to institutions, companies and private bodies, both at a national and international scale; commercial and bankruptcy consulting and activities of official receiver and liquidator; compliance testing; planning, organisation and management of internal auditing processes; evaluation on the effectiveness of internal administration procedures (risk assessment); management of financial-economic communication procedures concerning capital markets through the function of investor relator in big societies.
The course also adequately prepares students for their professional internship as defined by the programme and for the state qualification exams to enter the careers of chartered accountant and auditor.
The adequacy of the course programme is constantly monitored/updated according to the scientific progress of the business and economic disciplines and to the relationship with business world operators.

Final examination, if any

The final examination consists in a written dissertation/thesis (in Italian or English language) on a specific topic assigned to the student by a supervising professor, who also assists the student during his research. The thesis is the result of a theoretical and empirical investigation on the selected topic in coherence with the subject of competence of the supervisor.
Once approved by the supervisor, the thesis is presented by the candidate in front of a preliminary commission evaluating: the level of knowledge and comprehension of the selected topic; the candidate’s ability to understand and deal with specific problems regarding the selected topic; written and oral communicative skills; the level of autonomous judgment concerning the selected topic.
The judgement of the preliminary commission is then handed on to the final commission, which also takes into account the whole career of the candidate and his/her performance during the final examination, according to the following criteria:
the final commission can add up to 7,5 points (of which up to 6 points are given to the thesis) to the score assigned by the preliminary commission. The final commission, after examining the candidate’s career documents, can assign the points left for the number of exams passed with full marks and merit: 0 points for 1 exam; 0.5 points for 2 exams; 1 point for 3 to 4 exams; 1.5 points for 5 or more exams.
Honours and merits can be assigned to distinguished students for excellent curricula and thesis, upon request of the supervisor and approval of both the preliminary and the final commission. The final commission, however, can decide autonomously to assign honours and merits if the final sum of the average mark, the score for the career, the thesis and the number of full marks with merit is more than 110 out of 110. In order to enhance the quality and ease the process of assigning the topic of the thesis, every year in December the course organises a meeting for second-year students (but also open to first-year students) designed to guide the future graduates in their choice of the topic of the thesis among the different subjects proposed by the professors. The meeting focuses on the importance of the thesis research work, the coherence in the choice of the topic, the definition of the main objectives and the methods to reach them.