General information

Course name	Blockveranstaltung: Basics in business competence
Subtitle
Course number	340404
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	15
maximum number of participants	16
Home institute	Georg-August University School of Science (GAUSS) (für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften)
Courses type	Blockveranstaltung in category Teaching
First date	Monday, 22.09.2025 09:00 - 17:00, Room: (-1.105 (Ernst-Caspari-Haus (GZMB))), (0.233 (Ernst-Caspari-Haus (GZMB)))
Type/Form

Lehrende

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Rooms and times

(-1.105 (Ernst-Caspari-Haus (GZMB))): Monday, 22.09.2025 - Wednesday, 24.09.2025 09:00 - 17:00
(0.233 (Ernst-Caspari-Haus (GZMB))): Monday, 22.09.2025 - Wednesday, 24.09.2025 09:00 - 17:00

Fields of study

Comment/Description

Trainer:
The workshop will be given by Cedric Ronsöhr.

Location:
The workshop location will be announced to registered participants in due time.

Workshop description:

The different topics are based on the European Business Competence* Licence (EBC*L) learning targets syllabus.

The EBC*L is an Europe wide established business qualification certificate attesting the holder the core competence needed to:

* take part in economic life
* be able to run a department and make managerial decisions
* control and manage the financial aspects of a project
* start up a new business.

The EBC*L certificate demonstrates business management expertise on an internationally recognized level. The EBC*L is currently established in 31 countries and is available in 24 languages.

Due to its high degree of transparency the European Business Competence* Licence is accredited by international economy. A huge number of well known companies (including Siemens, T-Mobile, Xerox, Bayer, Uniqua, Samsung) have successfully integrated EBC*L into their in-house staff development programs. The EBC*L is established in several projects financed by the European Union.

Topics:

* Business Objectives and Management Ratios. Upon completing this module, you will be able to:

-explain the most important objectives of a company.
-explain and compute ratios corresponding to those objectives.

* Accounting. You will be able to:

-Read and understand annual financial statements (balance sheet, profit and loss account) in principle and draw first conclusions.
-Explain the most relevant terms found in annual financial statements.

* Costing and Pricing. By completing this module you will be able to explain:

-the most important objectives, tasks and key terminology of cost accounting.
-the general factors for entrepreneurial decisions (markets, customers, competition, cost of sales).
-the significance of the contribution margin as a central term in cost accounting, and compute it.
-the objectives and basic structure of cost accounting and profit centre accounting, and give reasons why cost awareness and entrepreneurial thinking are necessary.

* Business Law. Upon completing this module you will be able to explain:

-the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the principal legal forms of business organisation.
-the main features of a sales contract.
-the basics of insolvency law.

Testimonials by former participants:

* I really enjoyed the 'Basics in Business Competence' course. The trainer explained the concepts very clearly, and was very open to questions and discussions. I would recommend this course to anyone looking to gain an understanding into corporate finance.
* The workshop is really well designed and its contents exceeded my expectations! The interactive part really helped and made the whole experience very interesting and unique.
* This workshop offered more input than I expected and definitely is worth the time! I am sure it will help to have an easier start outside the world of academia after the PhD.
* This workshop taught very useful basics of business knowledge, which every adult should have. The instructor is very knowledgable and made the course interesting with numerous real life example of the theories.
* Gives you a thorough insight into fundamental business lingo and common practices, without being convoluted!

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "GAUSS_GGNB_Skills_SoSe_2025_Jul_Sep".

You can register for courses in September 2025 from 1-20 July 2025. The slots will be assigned on 25 July 2025.
You can still sign out until 31 July 2025.
Your participation becomes binding on 1 August 2025. Thereafter, cancellation is only possible via the GGNB Office (NOT via contacting the trainer directly) with a) sick certificate, or b) statement by supervisor for science reasons. If you do not provide this, you will be excluded from courses for the next 12 months, as well as travel grants and other financial support. No exceptions.
By signing up you agree (1) to carefully check whether you will be able to attend the course (do not register for 2 courses taking place on the same dates - the above mentioned sanctions apply!), (2) to frequently check your student e-mail account, as all information on courses will exclusively be sent to that account; (3) that your name and e-mail address may be forwarded to the course instructor(s) for communication before and after the course; (4) to complete the course evaluation; (5) inform us if you no longer wish to maintain a waiting list position; (6) that you only receive credits for attending the entire workshop - you will not get partial credits for part-time attendance.
The following rules apply for the admission:

At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
- Field of study is Systems Neuroscience
- Field of study is Environmental Informatics
- Field of study is Biomol:Struc-Func-Dynamic
- Field of study is Computer Science -PCS-
- Field of study is Statistics Emp. Methods
- Field of study is IRTG 2172 - PRoTECT
- Field of study is Biologische Diversität und Ökologie
- Field of study is Geographie
- Field of study is Psychologie
- Field of study is Umweltinformatik
- Field of study is Molekulare Medizin
- Field of study is Geowissenschaften
- Field of study is SensoryMotor Neuroscience
- Field of study is Biologie
- Field of study is Geography
- Field of study is Cardiovascular Science
- Field of study is Materialforschung Holz
- Field of study is BioNutz-MolwissBiotechnol
- Field of study is Catalysis Sust.Synt.CaSuS
- Field of study is MolecularBiology of Cells
- Field of study is Chemie
- Field of study is Mathematical Sciences
- Field of study is Data Science
- Field of study is Molekulare Biologie
- Field of study is Neurowissenschaften
- Field of study is MetalSites i.Biomolecules
- Field of study is Genome Science
- Field of study is Microbiology-Biochemistry
- Field of study is PhysicsBiologComplexSyste
- Field of study is Genes in Development, Disease and Evolution
- Field of study is Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Field of study is MolecularPhysi oftheBrain
- Field of study is Geoscience
- Field of study is Angewandte Statistik
- Field of study is Physik
- Field of study is Behavior and Cognition
- Field of study is Emerging Infect. Diseases
- Field of study is Theoret Computat Neurosci
The enrolment is possible from 01.07.2025, 00:00 to 20.07.2025, 23:59.
A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 25.07.2025 on 23:59. Additional seats may be available via a waiting list.
Enrolment is allowed for up to 3 courses of the admission set.
At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
- Degree is PromProgramm Cotutelle
- Degree is Promotion Cotutelle
- Degree is PromStudiengang Cotutelle
- Degree is Promotionsprogramm
- Degree is Promotion m.Abschlussprfg
- Degree is Promotionsstudiengang
The following categories of people are preferred during seat allocation:
Higher semesters will be preferred.

Assignment of courses:

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The enrolment is binding, participants cannot unsubscribe themselves.

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