Enrico
Supino
ITALY Associate Professor of Business Administration and Accounting Studies University of Bologna Adjunct Faculty
Enrico Supino is Associate Professor at University of Bologna since 2017 and was beforehand Assistant Professor at the same university since 2008. He holds a PhD in Managerial Accounting from the University of Florence in 2007, with a dissertation on the application of system dynamics to the modern multidimensional control systems. Enrico was a visiting scholar at South Bank University in London (2006) and a visiting professor at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business (2019). His teaching activity at University of Bologna consists in giving the following courses: Financial Benchmarking, Strategic Cost Management in Service Industries, Credit Scoring Models and Financial Statement Analysis. His main research interests are in forecasting models for managerial accounting and decision support systems, credit scoring models, the impact and value relevance of ESG information, and the value of professional soccer clubs. Since September 2024 Enrico has been directing the First Cycle Degree in Business Administration (Department of Management, University of Bologna).
COURSES
The analysis and the planning of the control systems. Monitoring systems of the multidimensional performance. Value based management. Management of costs and the techniques of cost management. Monitoring and reporting of the intellectual capital. Incentive systems. Management of costs between companies and during new project phases. Target cost management: strategic control of innovation. Customer value management and pricing techniques.
Finance, Control and SustainabilityFinancial and management accounting. The role of CFO in the company. Measuring and interpreting the company’s financial performance. Analysis of indices and flows. Cost calculation and analysis for management control. Strategic control and strategic cost management systems. Preliminary economic and financial analysis and budget. Evaluation of managerial performance. Multi-dimensional performance management systems.
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the basic knowledge of financial and managerial accounting that will allow them i) to construct and analyze financial statements using generally accepted accounting principles, and ii) to support the decision-making process. Accounting is the “language of business,” and students shall become sufficiently fluent in this language as to understand the financial condition and the performance of a business by reading its financial statements.
Applied Marketing and SalesAnalytics and AI for Marketing
Value creation is the relevant key success factor of long term business competitive advantage and managers are increasingly exploiting and exploring new business value creation opportunities. Management challenges are dealing with multiple critical levers that span from successful market and product decisions, pricing and process efficiency, to effective cost management and business model innovation. In this context performance understanding and performance management systems can play a relevant role into the unveiling, implementation and monitoring of value creation initiatives.
The course aims to provide the relevant knowledge for understanding organizations’ business financial performance and how business analytics can be applied to support the decision-making process of different business areas. Specifically, it focuses on the measuring and understanding of financial and value creation ratio, and on cost analysis and business analytics applications for supporting the decision-making process.
Artificial Intelligence for Business