Course: Small and Middle-Size Businesses

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Course title Small and Middle-Size Businesses
Course code UPEM/PMSP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory, Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Moravcová Jana, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Matějová Pavlína, Ing. Mgr.
  • Brodský Zdeněk, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Kotková Stříteská Michaela, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Basic terms - small and middle-sized business. Starting a business. Operating aspects. Economic aspects. Perspectives. High technologies. The EU support. Synergic business.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint the students with particularity of economics and management of small and middle-sized companies, especially in the sphere of legal forms of business, setting a company, business plan and budget development, organization, property and capital structure in management, financing and division of labour in a company and particularity of business in selected branches.
Students can use the theoretical knowledge in the field of establishing small or medium-sized enterprises and their management.
Prerequisites
Expected knowledge the basics of management, business law, accounting and business economics at the undergraduate level.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination, Home assignment evaluation

The assignment is granted upon attendance at seminars and completion and submission of the seminar paper. The examination is written or oral, respectively both.
Recommended literature
  • Zákon č. 89/2012 Sb., občanský zákoník v aktuálním znění.
  • Zákon č. 90/2012 Sb., o obchodních korporacích v aktuálním znění.
  • JÁČ, I., RYDVALOVÁ, P., ŽIŽKA, M.:. Inovace v malém a středním podnikání. Brno: Computer Press, 2005.
  • VEBER, J., SRPOVÁ J. A KOL.:. Podnikání - malé a střední firmy. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2005.
  • VODÁČEK, L., VODÁČKOVÁ, O.:. Malé a střendí podniky: konkurence a aliance v Evropské unii, Praha: Management Press, 2004.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Enterprise Management (2013) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Economics and Operation in Enterprises (2015) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Security Management in Enterprises (2016) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Economics and Operation in Enterprises (2014) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Economics and Operation in Enterprises (2016) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Economics and Operation in Enterprises (2013) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Security Management in Enterprises (2013) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Enterprise Management (2014) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Security Management in Enterprises (2014) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Security Management in Enterprises (2015) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Enterprise Management (2016) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Enterprise Management (2015) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter