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-====== ​Page Course Template (please update) ​======+====== ​Advanced Business and Management ​======
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 **Teacher**: ​ **Teacher**: ​
-  * [[https://barbarare.wordpress.com|Barbara Re]] +  * [[http://www.cs.unicam.it/|Grid Thoma]] 
  
 **Lessons schedule**: **Lessons schedule**:
-  * Wednesday: ​ 9:00 am – 11:00 am +  * 1st time slot 
-  * Thursday: ​ 9:00 am – 11:00 am +  * 2nd time slot 
 +  * 3rd time slot
  
 **Students reception hours**: **Students reception hours**:
-  * Please book an appointment by mail+  * Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
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-  * The course ​focuses on enterprise information systems that are driven by models, i.e., instead ​of constructing code these systems ​are assembled, configured or generated using a model-driven approach +This course ​analyzes the financial structure of the firm and its relation to the optimal investment strategy both in the long run and in the short term. The goals of the course ​are the following: 
-  * We will focus on the so-called "​process-aware"​ information systems ​to better understand ​the impact ​of the modelling of business processes both in static and dynamic environment + 
-  * The course introduces all relevant state-of-the-art concepts, methods and technologies enabling process flexibility,​ e.g., process configuration,​ exception handling, ad-hoc process changes, process schema evolution+[a] What capital structure to adopt for investment strategies in the long run; 
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 +[b] How to calculate ​the value of investment projects when there are bankruptcy costs and taxation; 
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 +[c] How to manage ​the cash flow in the short term in order to evade the payment due dates; 
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 +[d] What financial and legal policies are viable in case of the financial distress of a firm. 
  
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-  * **Introduction to Business Process Management** (Evolution ​of Enterprise Systems Architectures; Business Process ​and Business Process Models; Business Process Life-Cycle) + 
-  * **Flexibility Issues in Process-Aware Information Systems** (Perspectives on a Process-Aware Information System; Pre-specified ​and Repetitive Processes and Knowledge-Intensive Processes; Variability,​ Looseness, Adaptation, Evolution. Process Modelling & Flexibility-by-Design) +Sequence ​of different topics of the course: 
-  * **Business Process Modelling** (Conceptual models ​and abstraction mechanisms; Petri nets, Workflow nets and workflow modules; Workflow patterns, Event-driven Process Chains (EPC), Business Process Modelling Notation 2.0 (BPMN), Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL); Related Extension to support flexibility) + 
-  * **Analysing ​the Behaviour of Process Models** (Verifying Pre-specified Process Models; Ensuring Correctness of Configured Process Variants; Unfolding techniques)+[+] Long term debt, equity, common stocks and preferred stocks; 
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 +[+] Capital markets, stock returns, ​and efficiency; 
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 +[+] Financial leverage and firm value; 
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 +[+] Modigliani-Miller'​s ​ proposition; 
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 +[+] Pecking-order theory; 
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 +[+] Methods for capital budgeting for leveraged firms; 
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 +[+] Net working capital ​and cash cycle of the firm; 
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 +[+] Cash and liquidity management; 
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 +[+] Credit ​and inventory policy; 
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 +[+] Financial distress, bankruptcy, liquidation and the Z-Score model. 
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 **Course Slides** **Course Slides**
   * slide 1st lesson   * slide 1st lesson
-  * +  * [to be updated during the completion of the course]
  
 **Reference books** **Reference books**
-  * Mathias Weske. 2010. Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures (1st ed.). Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated. +  * Corporate Finance, Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe, Mc Graw Hill, 2009 ISBN 0073382337, ​ for the 9e edition only the following chapters: 14,15,16,17,18, 26, 27, 28, 30. This edition is available at UniCam'​s library. 
-  * Reichert, Manfred, and Barbara Weber. Enabling flexibility in process-aware information systems: challenges, methods, technologies. Springer, 2012. + 
-  * Other lecture notes and research papers, selected during the course. +
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-**Exam Dates A.Y. 2014/​2015 ​(https://​didattica.unicam.it/​Home.do)** +**Exam Dates A.Y. 2014/​2015** 
-  * 01/02/2016 14:00 +  * Winter session dates here  
-  * 01/10/2015 14:00 +  * Summer session dates here 
-  * 15/09/2015 14:00  +  * Autumn session dates here 
-  * 01/07/2015 14:00  +  * Winter session dates here (2016)
-  * 16/06/2015 14:00  +
-  * 31/03/2015 14:00  +
-  * 23/02/2015 14:00  +
-  * 03/02/2015 14:00 +
 **Exam rules**: ​ **Exam rules**: ​
-  * Writing Examination on the topics ​of the syllabus + 
-  * Open or multiple-choice questions + Exercise +The exam is in written form with possibility ​of integration with an oral discussion.
-  * Time available: 2 h+
  
 ** Exam Results ** ** Exam Results **
   * N/A   * N/A
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