The instructive objectives of this course are the following: - To explain the concepts, models and techniques associated to the Management and Administation of Business. - To understand and analyse the context in which companies and organizations develope their activities. - To apply relevant measurement systems for the different functional areas of the company, which may contribute to the problem idntification and solving. - To understand the company¿s planning process. At the same time, students will have to develop the following aptitudes: - To know how a company is managed. - To differentiate between enterprise and entrepeneur. - To analyse the company from its functional areas. - To develope a critical thought from the research, analysis and interpretation of the company¿s problems. - To show the ability to communicate written and orally. The professional competences that students will acquire are: - To apply the Management of Business knowledge to solve current practical problems. - To explore the factors that determine the companies¿ success and failure. - To apply the planning tools that improve the individual and colective performance. - To apply the different Management of Business basic functions such as planning, organization, management and control. - To integrate the concepts of Management, Organizational Behaviour, Finance, Operations Management and Marketing in solving specific problems.

1. The firm: the business and its environment 2. Corporate governance. Types of firms and objectives 3. Value creation and strategy 3. The function of production 4. The marketing acitvity 5. The financial function. Investment and financing decisions 6. The management of the company and human resources management

The competences of knowledge and the attitudes will be acquired through magisterial sessions, discussion of cases individually and in class and the preparation of other kind of practices. The magisterial lectures are aimed to teach the necessary technical knowledge. The understanding of the subject is reinforced with the exercises and the discussion of real cases. The 6 ECTS credits of the course are distributed as follows: 3 credits are assigned to the lectures, 2 credits concern the individual work, exercise resolution and participation in all the activities of the subject, and 1 credit for the individual work on the resolution of real cases.