5 ECTS credits
140 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1018399AER for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Possible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen
- Department
- Industriële ingenieurswetenschappen
- Educational team
- Harald De Muynck
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 42 contact hours Lecture
- Course Content
This course describes the basic principles of business management. The course consists of the following parts:
Lecture
- Basic principles relating to the starting up of a company
- Financial aspects (ways of payment, gaining access to credit and investment types)
- Basic principles of human resources management
- Economical aspects relating to running of a company
- Fiscal law
- Course material
- Course text (Required) : Bedrijfsbeleid, H. De Muynck, VUB, 2220170010243, 2023
Handbook (Recommended) : Vennootschapsrecht in België, H. De Muynck en K. De Muynck, Academia Press, 9789401474245, 2022
Handbook (Recommended) : Financieel management, H. De Muynck, Academia Press, 9789401474429, 2012
Handbook (Recommended) : Fiscaal recht in België, H. De Muynck en K. De Muynck, BIB, 9789401445115, 2017
Handbook (Recommended) : Bank- en beurswezen in België, H. De Muynck en K. De Muynck, 6de herziene druk, Academia Press, 9789401454018, 2018
- Additional info
Description tutoring: after class, by appointment or via e-mail.
- Learning Outcomes
-
Objectives
D1: gain a sound knowledge of the different economical and judicial aspects that are considered necessary in their (future) work as employee and/or independent entrepreneur (BaLO 13)
D2: has insight in the financial, fiscal and economical aspects relating to running of a company (BaLO 13)
D3: has insight in the basic principles of human resources management (BaLO 9, 13)
D4: knows basic principles relating to the starting up of a company (BaLO 9)
AD1: reasons and acts in a structured and systematic manner (BaLO 9)
AD2: communicates in Dutch in a comprehensible and structured manner (BaLO 10)
AD3: develops a professional attitude (BaLO 9, 10, 13)
Learning outcomes
- BaLO_9 To demonstrate an engineering attitude: attention to planning, to technical, economic and societal factors as well as managerial implications, assessment of the risks and feasibility of the proposed approach or solution, being result-driven and achieving effective solutions, innovative thinking.
- BaLO_10 To correctly handle the scientific and discipline-specific terminology in language relevant to the programme.
- BaLO_13 To act in an ethical and socially responsible manner with attention to technical, economic, human and sustainability aspects.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Other Exam
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
Note: Exam time 1st session:
Lecture: oral exam with written preparation: 100% (not transferred to 2nd session)
Exam time 2nd session:
Lecture: oral exam with written preparation: 100%
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Not applicable
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Startplan (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Electromechanical Engineering (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Electronics-ICT Engineering (only offered in Dutch)