Syllabus:

1. Know and understand international accounting and taxation diversity and their importance in the companies’ internationalization and expansion.
2. Identify and understand key areas of research in accounting and taxation.

CONTENTS

1. ACCOUNTING IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
1.1. Introduction to International Accounting
1.2. The International Accounting diversity
1.3. The Accounting systems
1.4. International Accounting harmonization
1.5. Comparison of the Portuguese Accounting system with the IFRS/IAS
1.6. Research in Accounting
2. TAXATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
2.1. EU tax harmonization process
2.2. Tax systems
2.3. Research in taxation

Syllabus:

General objectives:
1. Draw the attention to the importance of the general knowledge of Economic International Law;
2. Understand the relevance of this Law to economic life;
3. Know the main characteristics of Economic International Law;
4. Apply the knowledge acquired in resolution of practical cases.
Specific objectives:
1. Know the concept, sources and principles of Public International Law, specially of Economic International Law and the main international organizations of commerce;
2. Know the relation between the Economic International Law and portuguese Law;
3. Distinguish the forms of solving litigations by Economic International Law;
4. Know the role of European Central Bank in euro zone, its regulation, and its relation with Economic Criminal Law.

CONTENTS

1. Concept, sources, and subjects of Public International Law
1.1. Concept, sources, and subjects of Economic International Law
1.2. Relation between the Economic International Law and portuguese Law
2. The resolution of disputes by Economic International Law
3. The International Monetary System: Bretton Woods Agreement (1944)
4. The International Organizations of Commerce
4.1. General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT-1944)
4.2. World Trade Organization (OMC-1995)
4.3. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
5. The euro zone: role of European Central Bank
5.1. The failure of regulation and Economic Criminal Law

Syllabus:

After concluding this Curricular Unit, the student should be able to:
To know the role of the main International Financial and Trade Institutions
– To know the main processes of International Economic Integration
– To understand the problems associated with International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment and their main actors
– To understand the functioning of the Foreign Exchange market and of Forward Exchange Rates
– To understand the interactions between macroeconomic policies as budgetary policy, monetary policy, foreign exchange policy in face of different exchange rate arrangements and different international capital mobilities

CONTENTS

1. Introduction to the study of International Economics: logic and actors
2. Economic and Monetary International System: IMF, World Bank, WTO, BIS
3. International Trade and Investment: international trade policy, theories of FDI
4. International Economic Integration: Definition, Theory, Steps, World Examples
5. Foreign Exchange Market and Exchange Rates: operation types; forward rate construction
6. Macroeconomic policy in an open economy; IS-LM-BP model in different contexts and different exchange rates regimes

Syllabus:

General Objectives:
To frame the process of research in international economics and business within the scope of economic geography;
To understand the relationship between geography and economy, i.e. the interface between local and productive;
To gain knowledge on the economic forces operating at a global, national, regional and local level.

Specific Objectives:
Disucss the processes of knowledge creation within economic geography, in order to approach the different methodological perspectives of international economics and business.
Frame the processes of wealth production and creation within the local and geographical context.
Identify the actors and factors that, acting at national and/or international play a fundamental role in the international entry processes.

CONTENTS

I. Introduction: A Geographica approach to the Economy and to Businesses
1 Research in International Economics and Business
2. The contribution of economic geography to research – Critiques to the economics discourse
3. Critical themes in economic geography

II. Dynamics of the economic space
1. Unequal development
2. The international value chain
3. Technology and agglomeration
4. Economics and environment

III. Actors in the economic space
1. The state: who controls the economy
2. MNCs
3. Labour
4. Consumption

Syllabus:

GENERAL:
OG1 – Know various statistical approaches to support economics and management
OG2 – Identify the most appropriate methods to solve concrete problems
OG3 – Acquire technical skills regarding the tools to support scientific research

SPECIFIC:
OE1 – Know and apply the various methods of univariate data analysis
OE2 – Know and apply the various methods of multivariate data analysis
OE3 – Interpret the results obtained from applying the various statistical methods

CONTENTS

M1 – Introductory Concepts: Descriptive statistics, Variables Association, Hyphothesis Tests
M2 – Factorial Analysis and Reliability
M3 – Multiple Linear Regression
M4 – Discriminant Analysis
M5 – Cluster Analysis

Syllabus:

General:
1. Demonstrate the possession of knowledge capable of sustaining an updated, critical and cosmopolitan view of the world;
2. Understand the foundations of multipolarity and multiculturalism, characteristics of the contemporary world, and act accordingly with this understanding;
3. Understand some of the main implications that the particularities, differences and cultural and political interactions on an international scale, carried out by the most different types of agents and entities, can have on business.

Specific:

Apply the concepts acquired in the curricular unit;
Apply methodologies to coordinate and lead multicultural teams, effectively and efficiently, in an international context;
To highlight a set of historical, geographical, sociological and cultural knowledge about the contemporary world, considered on a macro scale.

CONTENTS

1. From the 20th century to the new world order: landmarks of a plural and global world.
1.1. Globalization.
1.2. Globalization and cultural diversity.
1.3. Globalization and management of cultural differences.
1.4. International Human Resources Management (GIRH) ? Expatriation Management.
1.5. Cultural intelligence.
2. Europe in the 21st century.
3. The multiple faces and multiple voices of contemporary Islam.
4. Post-colonialism and the emergence of “new actors” and “new economic, political and cultural powers” on a global scale.
5. Political and cultural diversity and business management and internationalization strategies (examples).
6. Leadership in a global world