SA_NE_NOP Business Science – for Master study programme

Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
winter 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Jakub Horák, MBA, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Ing. Vojtěch Stehel, MBA, PhD.
School of Expertness and Valuation – Rector – Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
Supplier department: School of Expertness and Valuation – Rector – Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
Timetable of Seminar Groups
SA_NE_NOP/P01: Mon 8:00–9:30 D616, J. Horák
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives supported by learning outcomes
The objective of the course is to teach students to characterize businesses of specific economics in terms of their activity, level of processing, production quantity, size, and to be able to specify such types of business by their structure, specificities, and share in GDP. Special attention is paid to the specificities of businesses operating in selected areas and current issues of the business sector.
Learning outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students are able to:
- define basic characteristics of individual businesses within specific economies,
- describe problems of individual types of specific economies,
- explain possible effects in relation to the share of total GDP of specific economies types,
- describe and quantify the main objectives of specific economies (peculiarities of agricultural production),
- decompose the impacts of measures taken in individual areas of specific economies,
- understand the corrective measures taken in the areas of specific economies.
Syllabus

  • Lectures
  • 1. Specific economics
  • 2. Industrial production – mining and quarrying, manufacturing, generation and distribution of electricity, gas, and water
  • 3. Agriculture – specifics of agricultural production
  • 4. Forest products companies – forest regeneration and protection, logging, important activities
  • 5. Civil engineering – specifics in comparison with industrial production
  • 6. Infrastructure companies – transport, housing, schools, research organizations, energy system, water management
  • 7. Banking companies – risk, banking supervision, deposit insurance, capital adequacy, compulsory reserves
  • 8. Banking companies – banking law, basic functions and peculiarities of bank accounting, banking products
  • 9. Trade companies and tourism businesses
  • 10. Economics and business in health care
  • 11. Economics of non-profit organizations – basic forms of non-governmental non-profit organizations
  • 12. Economics of non-profit organizations – financing of non-governmental organizations in the CR
  • 13. Current issues of business sector
Literature
    required literature
  • MYERS, D., 2016. Construction Economics: A New Approach. 4th edit. Routledge. ISBN 1138183725.
  • WEIKART, L. A., 2012. Budgeting and Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations: Using Money to Drive Mission Success. 2nd edit. CQ Press. ISBN 1608716937.
  • MISHKIN, F. S., 2015. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets. 11th edit. Pearson. ISBN 978-0-13-473382-1.
  • FARR, J. V. a I. J. FABER, 2018. Engineering Economics of Life Cycle Cost Analysis. CRC Press. ISBN 1138606782.
  • STABLER, M. J., 2010. The Economics of Tourism. Routledge. ISBN 0415459397.
  • ISWANTO, H. A., 2018. Hospital Economics: A Primer on Resource Allocation to Improve Productivity & Sustainability. Productivity Press. ISBN 0815388772.
  • PENSON, J. B. et al., 2017. Introduction to Agricultural Economics. 7th edit. Pearson. ISBN 013460282X.
  • GOODMAN, A. S. a M. Hastak, 2015. Infrastructure Planning, Engineering and Economics. 2nd edit. McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 0071850139
Forms of Teaching
Lecture
Teaching Methods
Frontal Teaching
Teaching Supported by Multimedia Technologies
Student Workload
ActivitiesNumber of Hours of Study Workload
Daily StudyCombined Study
Preparation for the Mid-term Test16 
Preparation for Lectures20 
Preparation for the Final Test16 
Attendance on Lectures26 
Total:780
Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate
Test – mid-term 30 %
Test – final 70 %
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms winter 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (winter 2022, recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.vstecb.cz/course/vste/winter2022/SA_NE_NOP