Small Business Economy

Major: Business Economics
Code of subject: 6.051.03.M.070
Credits: 6.00
Department: Human Resource Management and Administration
Lecturer: Sytnyk Yosyf Stepanovych, Doctor of Sciences, Associate Professor
Semester: 6 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: Students are expected to acquire following knowledges: - the essence of economic conditions and features of the functioning of small businesses in Ukraine; - principles of functioning of small business entities, functions and goals of their activities; - advantages and disadvantages of small business entities; - organizational and legal forms of small enterprises; - the procedure of creation and state registration of small business entities; Students are expected to acquire following skills: - to formulate business planning of a small business entity; - to apply methods of processing and interpretation of financial statements information in the business practice of small business entities; - to attract financial and credit resources for the development of small business; - be able to analyze the processes of state and market regulation of socio-economic and labor relations; - to use normative and legal acts regulating professional activity; - ability to effectively form a communication strategy.
Required prior and related subjects: Prerequisites: Investing, Spatial organization of production, Corrections: Taxes and systems of enterprise taxation, Economics and organization of innovation, Socio-economic development of the region.
Summary of the subject: The study of the discipline "Small business economics" aims at gaining competences in the field of creation, development and effective management of small business. The discipline reveals the essence of theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of the economy and the management of the activities of small business entities. The external economic conditions of functioning and development of small business entities are revealed. The internal economic environment of small business activity is characterized. The information-analytical and methodical provision of analysis, planning, and evaluation of the efficiency of the use of resource support for small business entities is substantiated. The discipline deals with financial and economic conditions, liquidity and solvency, business planning development in small business.
Assessment methods and criteria: Current control (45%): solving analytical tasks, oral questioning, tests. Final control (55%, control measures, exam): testing (15%), theoretical questions (15%), problem-searching and diagnostic tasks (25%).
Recommended books: 1. Економіка малого бізнесу. Конспект лекцій / Упоряд.: Й.С. Ситник. – Львів: Видавництво Львівської політехніки, 2020. – 80 с. 2. Доброва Н.В. Основи бізнесу : навч. посіб. Одеса: Бондаренко М. О., 2018. 305 с. 3. Колот А.М., Швиданенко Г.О., Бойченко К.С. та ін. Створення власного бізнесу : навч. посіб. Київ: Київський національний економічний університет імені Вадима Гетьмана (КНЕУ), 2017. 311 с. 4. Роженко О.В. Лекції з дисципліни Економіка малого бізнесу: для студентів ступеня «бакалавр». Кривий Ріг: ДонНУЕТ, 2017. 234 с. 5. Газуда М.В., Волощук Н.Ю. Регіональний розвиток сфери малого підприємництва. Ужгород : Сабов А.М., 2017. 254 с. 6. Kryvinska N., Gregus M. (eds.) Data-Centric Business and Applications Evolvements in Business Information Processing and Management (Vol.2). Springer, 2020. 468 p.