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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale interateneo in Viticulture, enology and wine marketing - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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Wine business management tools - INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL IN THE WINE BUSINESS (2018/2019)
Teaching code
4S003386
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
5
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
AGR/01 - AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND RURAL APPRAISAL
Period
Not yet assigned
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Learning outcomes
This module has the objective to expose students to the principles of investment analysis and of theory of real estate valuation, with specific reference to the wine industry. Starting from the theory of value e from the foundation of financial mathematics, the student is gradually progressed towards learning and professional case studies which are typical of the wine sector, with special reference to investments in land, machinery, integrated (vertical and horizontal) businesses , and human capital, inclusive of multiplier and other spillover effects at the regional level.
Program
1. Introduction to the course and its organisation, history and evolution of the subject, basic concepts and links to economics.
2. Introduction to the elements of financial mathematics and their use in discounting and future values of assets and incomes, interest (simple and compounded), periodicities, annuities, discounting and the role of time, present & future value
3. Diversity between saving and investment, examples in wine sector.
4. Flows of revenues and costs, cumulations at beginning, at the end and at intermediate moments, amortization instalments, annual and multi-annual values limited or perennial.
5. Determinants of discount factors, differences between real and nominal interest rates.
6. Uncertainty in investment plans and its formal inclusion as subjective and objective probabilities.
7. Identification and assessment of the returns to investment from labour-saving technology.
8. A typical revenue and cost distribution over time for a vineyard, and its optimal age of replacement.
9. Investment analysis in activities of wine-making, wine aging and bottling.
10. Assessment of investments from the financial, social and familial perspective.
11. Portfolio management and subjective versus market valuation of financial products
12. Grape hail insurance, private and subsidised.
13. Numerical risk simulation, with and without subjective probabilities (group assignment)
14. Market value of the vineyard plot, and market value of the vertically integrated winery
15. Investment analysis in individual reputation and in the district of production
16. Case studies from the world.
17. Tutorials on computation with R (via R-Studio) and MS-Excel
Examination Methods
Students' performance will be evaluated on the basis of a series of criteria aimed at assessing their learning during their participation to team work, the consequent presentations to colleagues and a final written exam, followed by a mark proposal and the potential either confirmation or improvement in the oral exam.
