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Fundamentals of Business - Sports Management


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Ming-Jin Jiang
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YR1 - Sports Management (Core)

 

Credits: 5 ECTS

Module leader: Ming-Jin Jiang

Office hour: TBA

Assessment methods

  • A1 - In class exercise (10%)
    • This exerise will assess your understanding of legal forms of business organisations
    • Marking Grids: A1_Marking_Grids.pdf
  • A2 - In-class exercise (10%)
    • This exerise will assess your understanding of financial management and predict a business' financial choice
    • Marking Grids: A2_Marking_Grids.pdf
  • A3 - In-class exercise (10%)
    • This exerise will assess your understanding of lean start-up concepts and the application of it
    • Marking Grids: A3_Marking_Grids.pdf
  • A4 - In-class exercise (10%)
    • This exerise will assess your understanding of the motivations of merger and acquistion and how a company choose its target by examining the financial ratios. 
    • Marking Grids: A4_Marking_Grids.pdf
  • A5 - Case Study (60%)

Learning Outcome

At the end of the module you will be able to:

LO1. Define the most basic business concepts and describe the most common corporate organisational structures.

LO2. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of various financing sources taking into account a firm’s life cycle.

LO3. Recognise the agency problem in businesses and select an appropriate solution to it in a well-defined scenario.

LO4. Extract information from a business’ financial statements.

 

For more detail, please download the attached MSG: YR1_Fundamentals of Business 

You can also find the attached Academic Calendar for AY2020/21 MIUC-Academic-Calendar-2020-2021.pdf

 

Here is the class outline:

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Week 1 - Introduction

Week 1 - Introduction to the module (Monday)
Week 1 Production and Transaction Costs (Wednesday)

Week 2 - Legal forms of Business Organisations and Young Businesses as Innovators

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Week 3 - Disruptive Innovation

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Week 4 and 5 - Finance: Debt vs. Equity

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Week 6 and 7 - Start-up firms: Finance Choices (Angels investors, Crowd funding, Venture capitali...

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Week 8 and 9- Cost of Capital

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Week 10 - Start-up firms: Operations (Lean startup)

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Week 11 and 12 - Pricing Strategy

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Week 12 & 13 - Merger and Acquisition

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Week 14 - Risk Management

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Week 14 - Basic Accounting and Financial Statements

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