Competencies and objectives
Course context for academic year 2024-25
The subject is part of the block of Basic Training of the degree. When the students study it, they get knowledges and competences to apply the central and specific training, that will acquire along their university experience, to the development of a satisfactory and useful professional life in the individual plane and of relation with the others, and they can collaborate in the prosperity of society.
Specifically, the subject is focused on professional work of engineering graduates and so on their participation in the management of business and professional projects. In this way, these projects must generate positive net value to be considered successful.
Thus, we start from the concept of “project”, and its extensive life cycle, and we focus on its business dimension. Indeed, engineering projects naturally have a technical dimension (initial phase of their life cycle) that requires applying specialized knowledge and professional “know-how” to generate and execute competent designs of useful artifacts in their technical-scientific field; But a complete assessment of a project also requires considering and designing the business dimension (final phase of its life cycle), relative to the need and viability of the projects from a business point of view, that is, commercial and financial. We must also incorporate the issue of sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. To do this, we will know and apply quantitative and qualitative methods useful for making decisions related to the economic-financial and socio-environmental issues of the projects. These aspects are the focus of our subject.
In this sense, this course provides with foundations for other subjects like Telecommunications Projects and Infrastructures I and II, Work Experience I and II and Final Project
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2024-25
- B5 : Suitable understanding of the concept of companies, institutional and legal framework of companies. Company organisation and management. Marketing.
Basic Transversal Competences
- CT2 : Students should know how to apply their knowledge to their job or vocation in a professional manner and should possess those skills that are usually reflected when preparing and defending arguments and solving problems in their field of study.
- CT4 : Students should be able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- CT5 : That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2024-25
- Familiarise to the student with the economic and business terminology.
- Understand the importance for professional success of thinking about and managing the complete life cycle of professional projects, including the application and use phase of the product through the implementation of a business project.
- Know the notion of a business model and the basic processes that constitute its value creation dynamics.
- Know and understand the concept of sustainability and a sustainable business model.
- Acquire a basic economic-financial culture to work in the professional world.
- Develop capacity of analysis, systematisation and interpretation of the main information to make decisions in different contexts.
- Know and apply the entire cycle of activities and necessary resources for the start up of a business experience.
- To be able to transmit the knowledge acquired through written and oral communication
- Develop the capacity to work in teams.
- Critical reasoning in the analysis and assessment of alternatives.
López García, Juan José
ECONOMIA FINANCERA I COMPTABILITAT
Area: FINANCIAL ECONOMICS AND ACCOUNTING
Theoretical credits: 1,2
Practical credits: 1,2
This Dept. is responsible for the course.
This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.
Study programmes where this course is taught
DEGREE IN SOUND AND IMAGE IN TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Course type: CORE (Year: 2)