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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** | ||
| - | * Lesson 1 — 8 October 2014 (2h) [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class1%20-%20Syllabus%20Course.pdf | Course Introduction]] – Slides | + | * slide 1st lesson |
| - | * Lesson 2 — 9 October 2014 (2h) Introduction to BPM - Slides | + | * [to be updated during the completion of the course] |
| - | * Lesson 3 e 4 — 15 e 16 October 2014 (4h) Evolution of Enterprise System Management – Slide | + | |
| - | * Lesson 5 e 6 — 29 e 30 October 2014 (4h) Patterns - Slide | + | |
| - | * Lesson 7 and 8 — 5 and 6 november 2014 (4h) – BPMN 2.0 | + | |
| - | * Lesson 9 — 12 November 2014 (2h) – BPMN 2.0 exercise 1 (A possible solution of exercise 1 – img) | + | |
| - | * Lesson 10 — 13 November 2014 (2h) -BPMN 2.0 exercise 2 ( A possible solution of exercise 2 – img) | + | |
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| - | ** Homework ** | + | |
| - | * Modeling BPMN 2.0 – exercise | + | |
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| - | ** Reading ** | + | |
| - | * Moving toward e-business as usual [pdf] | + | |
| - | * Understanding systems from a business viewpoint [pdf] | + | |
| - | * Design science in information system research [pdf] | + | |
| - | * A framework for information system architecture [pdf] | + | |
| - | * Workflow Pattern [externa link] | + | |
| - | * BPMN 2.0 specification [link] | + | |
| - | * BPMN 2.0 by example [link] | + | |
| - | * BPMN 2.0 – manifesto [pdf] | + | |
| - | * A technique of state space search based on unfolding [pdf] | + | |
| - | * Semantics and analysis of business process models in BPMN [link] | + | |
| - | * Petri Net: Properties, Analysis and Applications [pdf] | + | |
| - | * Flexibility issues in process-aware information system [link] | + | |
| **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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| ===== Exams ===== | ===== Exams ===== | ||
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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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