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Business and business project

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Course Unit Code545-0071/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
SOU70RNDr. Radmila Sousedíková, Ph.D.
HOL0164Ing. Věroslav Holuša, Ph.D.
Summary
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Student demonstrates knowledge and understanding of:
- basic theoretical and legislative knowledge of business,
- basic concepts, forms, functions and meanings of business and strategic planning,
- the structure and particulars of the business plan as the primary strategic plan of the enterprise,
- basic management methods and tools of strategic and project management,
- basic orientation in raw material markets.
Student can:
- interpret the nature, roles and functions of entrepreneurship,
- to evaluate the well-known state of practice, to appreciate the main factors of change in the current state and knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship
- grasp and understand the essence of the owner, economic decision-making, management and management of business processes,
- Apply basic management tools
- realize, solve and elaborate business plan in chosen area of ​​business with relation to raw material resources.
Student is able to:
- create a vision, mission and business goals,
- analyze, characterize and orientate in the business environment of the Czech Republic,
- create, compile into real form and defend a concrete business plan for a fictitious company (semestral work).
Course Contents
1. The importance of business for the development of economy and society, success in business.
2. Historical importance of business activity, specifics of business in raw materials industry.
3. Business opportunities and starting a business in the raw materials industry.
4. Legal aspects of starting a business, legal prerequisites for starting a business in the raw materials industry.
5. Business process as a cycle of capital, sources of business financing.
6. Management of business activities.
7. Regional aspects of business, sources of information for entrepreneurs.
8. Basic structure of business plan. The meaning of the implementation summary.
9. Company and project description. Market research and analysis tools.
10. Problems of technology selection, production plan. Development, innovation.
11. Personal and spatial security. Goals and marketing strategies.
12. Use of financial analysis and calculation of return on investment in business plan.
13. Compilation of project implementation schedule. Study of technical and economic feasibility of the project.
14. Identification of success factors, risk minimization measures, business plan annexes.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
OSTERWALDER, Alexander a Yves PIGNEUR. Business model generation: a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, c2010. ISBN 978-0-470-87641-1.
FANDEL, Günter, ed. Modern concepts of the theory of the firm: managing enterprises of the new economy. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3-540-40509-7.
MARIOTTI, Steve a Caroline GLACKIN. Entrepreneurship & small business management. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-503031-8.
STOKES, David a Nicholas WILSON. Small business management and entrepreneurship. 6th ed. Andover: South-Western Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-4080-1799-9.
ČERVENÝ, Radim. Business plán: krok za krokem. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2014. C.H. Beck pro praxi. ISBN 978-80-7400-511-4.
FOTR, Jiří, Emil VACÍK, Miroslav ŠPAČEK a Ivan SOUČEK. Úspěšná realizace strategie a strategického plánu. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2017. Expert (Grada). ISBN 978-80-271-0434-5.
OSTERWALDER, Alexander a Yves PIGNEUR. Tvorba business modelů: příručka pro vizionáře, inovátory a všechny, co se nebojí výzev. 2. vydání. Přeložil Radek BLAHETA. V Brně: BizBooks, 2015. ISBN 978-80-265-0425-2.
SRPOVÁ, Jitka. Podnikatelský plán a strategie. Praha: Grada, 2011. Expert (Grada). ISBN 978-80-247-4103-1.
SVOBODOVÁ, Ivana a Michal ANDERA. Od nápadu k podnikatelskému plánu: jak hledat a rozvíjet podnikatelské příležitosti. Praha: Grada, 2017. ISBN 978-80-271-0407-9.
OSTERWALDER, Alexander a Yves PIGNEUR. Business model generation: a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, c2010. ISBN 978-0-470-87641-1.
Recommended Reading:
DAS, Satyajit. Risk management. 3rd rev. ed. Singapore: Wiley. The swaps & financial derivatives library. ISBN 0-470-82165-5.
Fundamentals of project management. 4th ed. New York: AMACOM. WorkSmart. ISBN 978-0-8144-1748-5.
TAMVAKIS, Michael N. Commodity trade and finance. Second edition. New York: Informa Law from Routledge. Grammenos library. ISBN 978-0-415-73245-1.
ROTHAERMEL, Frank T. Strategic management. Third edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. McGraw-Hill education international edition. ISBN 978-1-259-25549-6.
PAWLICZEK, Adam, Lucja MATUSIKOVÁ a Karel STELMACH. Zakládání podniku a investování: podnikatelský záměr : pro distanční formu studia. 2., přeprac. a dopl. vyd. Karviná: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, Obchodně podnikatelská fakulta v Karviné, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7248-838-4.
VEBER, Jaromír a Jitka SRPOVÁ. Podnikání malé a střední firmy. 3., aktualiz. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2012. Expert (Grada). ISBN 978-80-247-4520-6.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Individual consultations, Tutorials, Project work
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Graded creditGraded credit100 (100)51
        Semestrální projektSemestral project50 26
        PísemkaWritten test50 25