Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Mobilise expertise in at least one area of management.
• Master the principal decision-making processes of a company.
• Professionally communicate and present original work both orally and in writing.
• Conduct scientific reasoning on complex or innovative management issues.
• Communicate and interact in a clear and structured manner, orally and in writing, on issues, analyses and projects.
• Collaborate within a team and exercise leadership.
• Contribute to the coordination and animation of a team, by putting in place the most effective means of collaboration in a given situation.
• Listen to team members and encourage expressing a shared opinion. Accept and discuss a different point of view than theirs.
• Plan activities so as to best utilise the time available.
• Prioritise responsible management practices.
• Innovate in the development of methodologies and tools for analysis and decision-making in management.
• In an active and integrated manner, master knowledge in the various fields of management and use them effectively in a professional context.
• Integrate highly specialised knowledge in different fields of management.
• Appropriately mobilise expertise taking into account the constraints and resources in the situation encountered.
• Be independent and regularly adapt to new contexts.
• Demonstrate independence and persevere, despite the difficulties or initial errors, to find an optimal solution.
• Assess their practices and be able to question it.
• Develop innovative strategies.
• Mobilise the methods and management support tools in changing contexts.
• Master the principal decision-making processes of a company.
• Innovate in the development of methodologies and tools for analysis and decision-making in management.
• Integrate scientific and technological processes.
• Master highly specialised skills in certain areas of management, including the management of production and logistics.
• Identify, model and analyse real and complex problems in management sciences.
• Manage a project within an organisation.
• Mobilise the methods and management support tools in changing contexts.
• Demonstrate independence and persevere, despite the difficulties or initial errors, to find an optimal solution.
• Assimilate the components of the social and economic environment of a company.

Learning Outcomes of UE

In 23-24, the course will be based on case studies and active company visits. It could be also complemented by conferences given by professionals in the field. Concerning company visits, students will be asked to find a company that has applied for one of the means of financing seen during the first part of the course and to carry out a critical analysis of it via a presentation in class.

At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- understand the links between finance, marketing, production, HR decisions, etc.,
- interpret financial statements,
- make a financial diagnosis,
- work in a team.
 

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The beginning of the course will be devoted to the theoretical phasings resuming the exposition of the main stages of the course. The course schedule will be established and presented and the cases worked on will be described.

The next step will consist of cases analysis in class and/or by group (remotely).

Depending on the availability of professionals, conferences may also be organized.

Students will work in groups to analyze a company's financing mechanism, write a report and make a presentation to the class.

The main educational objectives will be:
- Being able to analyze a situation, understand it and synthesize it,
- Be able to identify the specific determinants of a funding policy,
- Make students understand the opportunities for business creation by identifying needs, proposing solutions and studying a market,
- Allow students, using the theoretical tools seen in class, to represent an economic model or conceptualize a market,
- Learn and analyze a situation of entrepreneurial failure linked to specific strategic decisions and understand how an entrepreneurial failure can become a lever for future entrepreneurial success,
- Work in collaborative mode and stimulate participants' thinking,
- Show critical thinking, understand the constraints, obligations, advantages and disadvantages of a choice of financing.

The learning activities are fully complementary and differ only in the way they are taught
 

Prior Experience

Entrepreneurial Finance 1

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q1 UE assessment

• Written examination - Face-to-face
• Production (written work, report, essay, collection, product, etc.) - To be submitted in class
• Oral examination - Face-to-face
• Oral presentation - Face-to-face
• Seminar participation - Face-to-face
• Graded assignment(s) - Face-to-face

Q1 UE Assessment Comments

The evaluation will take one form or another depending on the course of the year.
 

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q1 UE resit assessment (BAB1)

• N/A - Néant

Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)

Not applicable.

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q3 UE assessment

• Written examination - Face-to-face
• Production (written work, report, essay, collection, product, etc.) - To be submitted in class
• Oral examination - Face-to-face
• Oral presentation - Face-to-face
• N/A - Néant

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

The evaluation will take one form or another depending on the course of the year.