IBM Financial Centres

  • Credits: 2
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2C
  • Semester: summer
  • Year: 2
  • Faculty of Business Management

Teachers

Included in study programs

General Management

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Increase awareness of the articulated areas of finance and management in an international financial centre of a multinational corporation. Understanding of the need for a general overview of the company's operations in relation to various internal corporate indicators and their use in decision making.
Competence:
- A combination of practical data handling, analytical and presentation skills. Obtaining information from publicly available sources, evaluating and analysing it.
- Use of critical thinking based on rational reasoning based on the information provided. Apply existing theoretical knowledge to examples from the practice of a multinational company.
- Propose solutions and defend conclusions or recommendations to improve the efficiency of corporate operations. Clear and concise communication of results and recommendations.
Skills:
- Interpret and analyze the profitability of individual product assortment components based on volume, mix and margin.
- Interpret the contract lifecycle from contract signing to quantifying revenue over the life of the contract. Perform basic analyses in the area of revenue forecasting
- Perform basic cost categorization analyses within the income statement. Interpret types of revenues and costs
- Perform basic business analysis in the area of pricing
- Prepare and present an 'executive summary' to company management

Indicative content

1. IBM background and strategic focus
2. Analysis of key financial ratios
3. Sales volume/product mix/margin and their impact on decision making (Case study)
4. Financial plan of the organisational unit
5. Revenue and cost plan for products and regions (Case study)
6. Contract lifecycle from signing to contract execution
7. Estimation of revenues during contract execution, creation of a revenue plan (Case study)
8. Objectives and tasks of the pricing department (Pricing)
9. Basic principles of pricing (Case study)
10. Financial management of the company
11. Presentation of case studies, discussion
12. Presentation of case studies, discussion
13. Presentation of case studies, discussion

Support literature

Basic literature:
1. BIKÁR, M. – KMEŤKO, M. – POLEDNÁKOVÁ, A. 2016. Medzinárodný finančný manažment. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2016. ISBN 978-80-225-4254-8
2. SLÁVIK, Š. 2013. Strategický manažment. Bratislava : Sprint 2, 2013. ISBN 978-80-8939-396-1.
3. MAJDUCHOVÁ, H. a kol. 2018, Podnikové Hospodárstvo, Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2018. ISBN 978-80-8168-806-5
4. GRANČIČOVÁ, K. a kol. 2013. Odbytová stratégia. Praktikum. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2013. ISBN 978-80-225-3592-2
5. MARKOVIČ, P. a kol. 2007. Manažment finančných rizík podniku. Implementácia derivátových kontraktov. Bratislava : IURA EDITION, 2007. ISBN 978-80-8078-132-3.
6. HVOŽDAROVÁ, J. – SAPARA, J. – UŽÍK, J. 2012. Konsolidovaná účtovná závierka. Zostavenie a analýza. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2012. ISBN 978-80-225-3509-0
Supplementary literature:
1. HANZELKOVÁ, A. – KAŘKOVSKÝ, M. – ODEHNALOVÁ, D. – VYKYPĚL, O. 2009. Strategický marketing. Teorie pro praxi. Praha : C. H. BECK, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7400-120-8.
2. HARUMOVÁ, A. 2011. Finančné riadenie holdingu. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo Sprint dva, 2011. ISBN 978-80-89393-64-0.
3. HORNICKÁ, R. a kol. 2012. Konsolidácia účtovnej závierky v príkladoch. 2012. Bratislava : IURA EDITION, 2012. ISBN 978-80-8078-452-2..
4. HVOŽDAROVÁ, J. 2009. Konsolidácia účtovnej závierky a jej analýza. Praktikum. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2009. ISBN 978-80-225-2804-7.
5. KOKLES, M. – ROMANOVÁ, A. Informačný systém podniku. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2007. ISBN 978-80-225-2286-1.
6. MAJTÁN, Š. a kol. 2013. Odbytová stratégia. Bratislava : Sprint 2, 2013. ISBN 978-80-89393-92-3.
7. SLÁVIK, Š. 2012. Manažment zmien. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2012.
8. SZARKOVÁ, M. 2011. Komunikácia v manažmente. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2011. ISBN 978-80-225-3251-8.
9. SZARKOVÁ, M. 2007. Komunikácia podniku s externým prostredím. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2007.
10. THOMASOVÁ, E. 2013. Organizovanie. Teória a prax organizovania podniku. Bratislava : Sprint 2, 2013, ISBN 978-80-89393-93-0.
11. TÖPFER, A. 2008. Six Sigma. Brno: Computer Press, a.s., 2008. ISBN 978-80-251-1766-8.
12. TUMPACH, M. 2006. Medzinárodné štandardy pre zostavenie účtovnej závierky IFRS/IAS. Bratislava : IURA EDITION, 2006. ISBN 978-80-8078-72-2.
13. RUGMAN, A.M. - COLLINSON, S. 2012. International Business (6th edn), Harlow: FT Prentice-Hall
14. MCGEE, J. - THOMAS, H. - WILSON, D. 2010. Strategy: Analysis and Practice (2nd edn), Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill

Requirements to complete the course

40 % written assignments, 60 % combined examination, presentation

Student workload

104 h (attendance at seminars 26 h, preparation for seminars 14 h, preparation for mid-term evaluation and case studies 32 h, preparation for exam 32 h)

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak, English

Date of approval: 11.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 23.05.2022