Competencies

The skills developed in the Business Administration degree are those mentioned in the "White Paper on Economics and Business Studies," which states that "the business graduate must have acquired the status of an expert, a practical person with clear skills, experienced in their field, who can address management problems with professional criteria and with the use of technical tools."

Therefore, by developing these competencies, graduates of the degree are expected to be able to: Manage and administer a small business or organization, understanding its competitive and institutional position and identifying its strengths and weaknesses.

  • Integrate into any functional area of a medium-sized or large company or organization and confidently perform any management tasks assigned to it.
  • Evaluate the situation and expected evolution of a company based on relevant information records.
  • Issue advisory reports on specific company and market situations.
  • Draft projects for global management or functional areas of the company.
  • Identify the sources of relevant economic information and their content
  • Understand economic institutions as a result and application of theoretical or formal representations about how the economy works.
  • Derive relevant information from the data that is impossible for non-professionals to recognize.
  • Regularly use information and communications technology throughout your professional performance
  • Read and communicate in more than one language, especially English.
  • Apply professional criteria based on the use of technical instruments to the analysis of problems.
  • Communicate fluently in your environment and work as a team.
Generic and specific competencies of the Business Administration Degree
Generic instrumental competences

01. Ability to analyze and synthesize

02. Organizational and planning skills

03. Oral and written communication in the native language

04. Oral and written communication in a foreign language

05. Computer knowledge related to the field of study

06. Ability to analyze and search for information from diverse sources

07. Problem-solving skills

08. Decision-making ability

 

Generic personal skills

09. Ability to work in a team

10. I work in an interdisciplinary team

11. I work in an international context

 12. Skill in personal relationships

13. Ability to work in diverse and multicultural environments

14. Critical and self-critical capacity

15. Ethical commitment at work

16. Working in pressure environments

 

Systemic generic competencies

17. Work on autonomous learning capacity

18. Work on the ability to adapt to new situations

19. Work Creativity

20. Work Leadership

21. Work Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit

22. Motivation for quality

23. Sensitivity to environmental and social issues

 

Specific skills

26. Financial accounting

27. Cost accounting

28. Business address

29. Commercial research

 30. Financial Management

31. Financial investment analysis

32. International financial economics

33. Business organization and administration

34. Microeconomics

35. Macroeconomy

36. Spanish and world economy

37. Mathematical analysis

38. Statistics

39. Company tax regime

40. Company law

41. Economic history

42. Econometrics

43. Mathematics of financial operations

 

Competencies for applicability

44. Ability to apply knowledge in practice

45. Information search and research skills

46. Project design and management

47. Knowledge transmission skills

Source: CONFEDE (2005), White Paper on Economics and Business Studies.