Business administration and management know-how for assistants

Introduction to the topic of business administration

• What does it mean to manage?
• What is the business structure of a company?
• How is a company managed operationally and strategically?

Understanding important terms

• Profitability.
• Economic efficiency.
• Productivity.
• Liquidity.
• Cash flow.
• EBIT.
• Contribution margin.
• Break-Even.

Operational accounting

• As an information and control system.
• Tasks in accounting.
• Introduction based on a self-created "profitability forecast".
• Commercial balance sheet, tax balance sheet, IFRS balance sheet.

Basic principles of financial accounting

• How do you read a balance sheet?
• Source and application of funds.
• Liquidity and planning.

The ABC of cost accounting

• Full cost accounting, partial cost accounting, budgeting and activity-based costing.
• Which key figures are important?

Controlling

• Fundamentals for corporate management.
• Networking tool for financial accounting, cost accounting, planning and statistics.
• The Balanced Scorecard.