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Wine business management tools - INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL IN THE WINE BUSINESS (2020/2021)
Teaching code
4S003386
Teacher
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 introduces students to the principles of investment analysis and of theory of real estate appraisal, with specific reference to the wine industry. It starts from the general theory of value and from the basic foundations of financial mathematics, it moves on to to a progressive exposure to various practical examples that are typical of the investments in the wine industry, with specific reference to land purchases and improvements, machinery, vertical and horizontal integration, and human capital investment, inclusive of external effects, such as regional multipliers of expenditure.
Program
1. Introduction to the course content and its organisation. History and evolution of the discipline, foundation concepts and links to economics. 2. Introduction to basic elements of financial mathematics and their use in computing the discount and preset value of future income and values., 3. Differences between savings and investments, with examples from the wine business. 4. Handling of flows in costs and revenues, intermediate time accumulations, initial and final accumulations (present value), reintegration rates, annuities and poli-annuities (limited and illimited). 5. Determinants of interest rates, real and nominal rates. 6. Uncertainty in investment plans and its formal representation with subjective and objective probabilities. 7. Identification and valuation of the returns to investments, labour saving technologies. 8. Vineyard investment analysis: temporal distributions of costs and revenues, optimal age of vineyard substitution. 9. Investment analysis for wine ageing and bottling. 10. Investment criteria from different perspectives: financial, social and familiar. 11. Investment portfolio management, objective and subjective valuation of financial products. 12. Risk management via private and publicly subsidised hail insurance. 13. Group task: risk simulation with and without subjective probabilities. 14. Market value of vineyard and vertically integrated wine making facilities. 15. Investment analysis on reputation of single firm and of collective district of production. 16. International case studies. 17. Computation practicals with R (via R-Studio & R-Markdown) and MS-Excel
Examination Methods
Students will be evaluated on the basis of their participation in class during group works taking place during the course, as well as in a final exam (written and possibly oral) based on the topics covered in the class teachings.
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Double degree
The University of Verona, through a network of agreements with foreign universities, offers international courses that enable students to gain a Double/Joint degree at the time of graduation. Indeed, students enrolled in a Double/Joint degree programme will be able to obtain both the degree of the University of Verona and the degree issued by the Partner University abroad - where they are expected to attend part of the programme -, in the time it normally takes to gain a common Master’s degree. The institutions concerned shall ensure that both degrees are recognised in the two countries.
Places on these programmes are limited, and admissions and any applicable grants are subject to applicants being selected in a specific Call for applications.
The latest Call for applications for Double/Joint Degrees at the University of Verona is available now!
