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Introduction to management and enterprise
Introduction to management • Management levels, skills, functions. • Agri-business management • Introduction to enterprises and their organisational context • The agribusiness organisation and its functional areas
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The agribusiness environment
• Agri-business environment • The macro environment, the task environment and competitive analysis
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Agribusiness plan
• Idea generation • Feasibility study • Business Plan for a farm and agribusiness (including relevant financial and physical performance data) • Climate for enterprise • Support agencies for enterprises/agri-enterprises/State industrial policy
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Record keeping for farm businesses
Record keeping for livestock and crop enterprises • Record keeping for statutory management requirements on farm including livestock movement, animal health records, pesticide use and fertiliser use• Performance monitoring for farm enterprises and bench marking KPI against similar farm businesses
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Product Costs
• Material Control • Labour Control • Overhead Control • Strategies to optimise production costs at a farm enterprise level.
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Cost volume profit analysis
• Contribution • Fixed and variable costs • Graphical analysis • Margin of safety • Cost volume profit assumptions
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Budgeting
• Budgeting process including master budgets, cash flows for farm and agribusiness enterprises including monthly and annual cash flows.
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Capital investment decisions
• Appraisal methods, their purposes and implications • NPV, IRR, Payback method, ARR, DCF. Financing of capital investment
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Module Resources
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Recommended Book Resources |
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Tiernan, Morley and Foley. (2013), Modern Management, Gill Education, p.384, [ISBN: 9780717156320].
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Sheppard. (2011), Management Accounting, Gill Education, p.300, [ISBN: 9780717149964].
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Olson. (2003), Starting a Business in Ireland, Oak Tree Press, [ISBN: 9781904887376].
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This module does not have any article/paper resources |
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This module does not have any other resources |
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