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Basics of Business Administration (15 cr)

Code: 3011392-3011

General information


Enrollment

02.08.2024 - 31.08.2024

Timing

01.09.2024 - 31.12.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

15 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Engineering and Business

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish
  • Svenska
  • English

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Business

Teachers

  • Anne-Marie Jünger
  • Nicolas Le Grand
  • Annamari Heikkilä
  • Minna Björkberg-Suominen
  • Riikka Kulmala
  • Anniina Vainio
  • Kari Juhala
  • Susanna Saari
  • Katja Repo
  • Krista Holopainen
  • Jaakko Haltia
  • Heidi Kurvinen

Groups

  • LTOPS24TAI
  • LTOPS24F
  • LTOPS24G
  • LTOPS24B
  • LTOPS24C
  • LTOPS24D
  • LTOPS24E
  • LTOPS24H
  • LTOPS24I
  • LTOPS24J
  • LTOPS24A
  • LTOPS24K

Objective

The student is able to
- use the basic terminology of business administration
- interpret the interactive relationships between the organization's economic process and the interest groups and their impact on profitability
- present the main characteristics of modern marketing thinking
- give examples of issues that have an effect on buyer behaviour and explain how the marketing mix can be used to reach target segments
- compare company forms businesswise
- explain the main characteristics and functions of the Finnish legal system
- explain the legal rules of conclusion of an agreement
- apply the basic sources of legal information in problemsolving
- utilize business plan as a tool

Content

- basic concepts of business administration
- economic process of an organization
- profitability and calculation of profitability
- financing of business start
- risks and risk management
- organization and management
- company forms
- modern marketing thinking
- marketing environment
- buyer behaviour and segmentation
- marketing mix
- main characteristics, norms and sources of law in the Finnish legal system

Evaluation scale

H-5