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UE6. ANGLAIS DES AFFAIRES
Niveau M : 120 heures - 15 ECTS
Epreuve orale
Cette unité d’enseignement conduit à préparer une épreuve ayant pour but de montrer la capacité du candidat à maîtriser l’anglais des affaires en présentant et défendant un point de vue à partir d'un court document écrit en langue anglaise.
Pour permettre de tester de façon pertinente les aptitudes recherchées, le sujet proposé au candidat sera tiré de l’un des thèmes précisés infra.

Les aptitudes évaluées sont les suivantes :
- dégager une problématique à partir d’un sujet donné ;
- construire un exposé structuré ;
- s’exprimer de façon rigoureuse en anglais ;
- défendre ses positions de façon argumentée ;
- mobiliser de façon pertinente un vocabulaire lié à l’anglais des affaires ;
- intégrer à bon escient dans le discours les faits d’actualité.
Thèmes

• Finance

Thème
Notions visées
Banking
Banks and financial institutions, money supply, the subprime crisis and the credit crunch, microfinance
Venture capital
Business plan, investing in start-ups
Bonds
Bonds, mortgage, investing in funds
Stocks and shares
Stocks and shares, hedge funds, financial report, investing clients’ money
Derivates
Spread-betting, financial instruments
International financial market
The Foreign exchange Market, the international financial system
Financial Disclosure
Compulsory and voluntary disclosures (financial and non-financial information, environmental, social, etc.)

• Accounting and auditing

Thème
Notions visées
Standards
National and international frameworks, accounting principles, harmonization, users of accounting and financial information
Financial statements
Presentation and interpretation of profit and loss account, balance sheet, notes, cash-flows statement for entities and groups
Intangibles
Recording and assessment (knowledge, image, innovation, goodwill, etc.)
Management control
Management control, internal and external audit
Audit quality
Management accounting systems
Levels of control, measuring performances, dashboard, balanced scorecard

• Governance and corporate social responsability

Thème
Notions visées
Stakeholders
Internal and external stakeholders
Governance
Governance modes (shareholders, family, partnership)
Mechanisms and tools

• Information systems and new technologies

Thème
Notions visées
Information systems (IS)
What is information system?
Hardware, software, ERP, databases, networks, procedures
Digital devices
Big data, cloud computing, mobile and web services
Security and quality of IS
Risks
Controls of IS
Management and information and communication technologies
Structure 2.0, Interactive control system, teleworking

• Management, Human Ressources and Strategy

Thème
Notions visées
Management
What is management? What makes a good manager?
Work and motivation
Managers and motivation.
Company structure
Big and small companies, new business model and peer production, IT impact on company structure, non-profit organisation
Managing across cultures
Managers, authority, and cultural diversity
Recruitment
Job applications, filling a vacancy
Communication
Internal communication
Strategy and business growth
Construction and implementation of strategies, management of failure, coopetition, stakeholders and strategy

• Production

Thème
Notions visées
Production
Capacity and inventory, purchasing and low-cost manufacturing, choosing suppliers
Logistics
Pull and push strategies, supply chain management / work flow, environmental management system (EMS)
Quality
Total quality management
Innovations
Innovation classification, research and development unit, selection of innovations process, product launches

• Marketing

Thème
Notions visées
Products
Products and brands
Marketing
The product life cycle, promoting a new product
Negotiation
Loyalties
Advertising and communication
Advertising and viral marketing
External communication, sensorial marketing
Marketing and information and communication technologies
Personal data and marketing, social network and institutional communication

Modalité d'évaluation

- Examen final oral d'une durée de 1 heure.
- Coefficient : 1.
- Note inférieure à 6/20 éliminatoire.