Credits: 4
Type of course: Theoretical-practical
Requirements: None 

Description 

This course deals with the administrative task, where the function of the administrator must respond to the technical and scientific range within the strategic field of the organization. It is based on the fundamental concepts of administration, planning, direction, leadership, organization, and control of resources in order to obtain knowledge, skills, and abilities to develop within the company. The course allows active participation in the business field as an actor in the field of business administration, and that in turn responds to your concerns as a trainer for your own company.

General Objective

Critically analyze the contributions made by the most representative thinkers in the development of the different schools, theories, or approaches to administration and their relationship with the social context for decision-making in administrative processes within the organization.

Specific Objective 

• Describe the contributions of the main schools, approaches, and ideas of classical thinkers in administration.
• Describe the control or evaluation process in the productive organizational life of companies.
• Distinguish the basic areas, phases, and functions of the administration.
• Interpret the evolutionary importance that administrative science presents in the field of organization.
• Interpret the basic aspects of planning and business objectives, departmentalization, management, and leadership.
• Determine the functionality in an organization of management, leadership, and communication factors.

Contents 

• Fundamentals of the theory and science of Administration.
• Historical evolution of administrative thought.
• Basic areas, processes, and functions of the administrator.
• Planning.
• Direction and leadership
• Control

Credits: 4
Type of course: Theoretical-practical
Requirements: None 

Description 

The public administration, regulated in its structure and operation normally by administrative law, is a discipline whose purpose is the general welfare through public services. It imparts effectiveness to human efforts, helps to obtain better personnel, equipment, materials, money, and human relations, keeps ahead of changing conditions, and provides foresight and creativity, improvement is its constant watchword. An adequate administration raises productivity, and efficient administrative technique promotes and guides development. In small and medium-sized companies, the only possibility to compete is by applying public administration, hence the importance of studying this course in business administration.

General Objective

Analyze administrative management from the perspective of public service and its context in the legal and administrative structure to place the student in the proper course of action when managing public institutions through knowledge of existing guidelines and regulations in the executive branch and its different wallets.

Specific Objectives

• Recognize the concepts of the state and its relationship with the public sector.
• Recognize public administration as a social construction and action system.
• Describe the functions of public administration and its relationship with the functions of the private sector.
• Determine the trends and perspectives of the public administration in Costa Rica as a means of responding to the expectations of the executive power and political system.

Contents

• Concept of State and Public Sector.
• Structure and functions of the Public Administration in Costa Rica.
• Political decentralization and administrative decentralization.
• Prospects and modernization of the public sector.

Credits: 4
Type of course: Theoretical-practical
Requirements: None

Description 

The study of marketing provides the administrator with the necessary instruments to focus on the commercialization of the company's products or services. Marketing is a global business system designed to plan, price, promote, and distribute goods and services to satisfy potential customers. This course is designed to offer the participant the basics of marketing, which are very useful and of great importance for the business administrator in a highly competitive environment in modern administration. It focuses on the study of the most representative theoretical and methodological foundations of marketing as a science and its relationship with administration.

General Objective

Analyze the components of the market, and the orientation of its products or services for their integration with the activities of the company.

Specific Objectives

• Recognize the concepts, foundations, and importance of marketing (its evolution and environment) for the development of business activities.
• Describe the laws and basic principles of "marketing" to apply them to the finances of the company.
• Describe the characteristics of the consumer and marketing to identify each of the bidders and offertories.
• Determine the characteristics, objectives, and goals of marketing to invest safely.

Contents 

• Conceptualization.
• Consumer.
• Market.
• Research and information systems in marketing

Credits: 4
Type of course: Theoretical-practical
Requirements: Marketing I 

Description 

The course focuses on the study of aspects of international marketing and advertising where the administrator must be clear about the needs of the company and how the producer can satisfy them, through the study of the behavior of markets and consumers, stimulating demand, and increasing trade. It also provides the knowledge to analyze aspects related to the market between countries for an adequate promotion of exports with the guide, as well as decision-making related to advertising. 

General Objective

Analyze the aspects related to marketing between countries, for an adequate promotion of exports, as well as making decisions in relation to advertising.

Specific Objectives 

• Describe the different aspects that affect decision-making and the relevant stages that affect an export project for adequate investment control in the company.
• Describe the different advertising aspects of decision-making from the manager's point of view.
• Identify the relevant aspects that are related to international marketing to make decisions within the company.

Contents

• Introduction
• International marketing
• Advertising strategies

Credits: 4
Type of course: Theoretical-practical
Requirements: None

Description 

The course aims to provide the student with a global vision, in its theoretical and practical aspects, of the Costa Rican tax system, in relation to the general structure of the system and its most representative taxes, with respect to business activity. Starting from a general theoretical conception to locate the foundations of the system, an analysis of the taxes that tax wealth, consumption, and patrimony in the Costa Rican case will be carried out. The doctrinal foundations will also allow the student to know the elements of universally applicable Tax Law theory, and the tools for understanding the tax structure and especially the financial and tax legislation of Costa Rica.

General Objective

Analyze the existing regulations on financial and tax matters for the public and private sectors of Costa Rica and the legal tools for the application or verification of the company.

Specific Objectives

• Recognize the Costa Rican tax regime to make the company's annual declarations.
• Describe aspects related to companies.
• Interpret the regulations related to commercial activity in Costa Rica for its use within the company.
• Interpret the Costa Rican Securities Market Regulatory and Tax Justice Law to understand the tax structure.

Contents

• Tax Justice Law and Scope of Decrees #7722 and 26358-H.2. Trade.
• Securities
• Law Regulating the Stock Market of C.R. 

Credits: 4
Type of course: Theoretical-practical
Requirements: None 

Description 

The central objective of public finance is to investigate and structure the systems and the various ways by which the state or any other public power procures the material and financial resources necessary for its operation, as well as the way in which the wealth will be used by the state. The course assumes national accounting as its object of study and its relationship with public finances, and it analyzes theoretical and empirical aspects of the budget process and the financial administration of public institutions. Study the process of preparation, presentation, and approval of the National Accounting of the Public Sector. In the second part, the nature and characteristics of public finance and its financial administration are studied.

General Objective 

Analyze the scopes and characteristics of the National Accounts, as well as their interaction in Public Finance for the preparation, presentation and approval of the National Accounts of the Public Sector

Specific Objectives

• Recognize the evolution and field of action of accounting and national accounts to establish theories of national income, finance and the public budget.
• Identify the contributions of income and public spending in the state for the correct application of said income.
• Interpret the Income Tax Law and its regulations to prepare related company documents.

Contents

• Nature and characteristics of public finances.
• Public expenditure.
• Definition and evolution of the national accounts
• Field of action of the National Accounts.
• National countability
• National accounts.
• Contributions.
• Public budget and critical analysis of the review of the public account.
• Fiscal policy.
• Public debt and economic policy.
• National Finance Accounting.
• Income Tax Law #7092 and its regulations

Credits: 4
Type of course: Theoretical-practical
Requirements: None 

Description 

When analyzing economies, the dimensions that transcend the border of a country must be reviewed, which addresses economic problems with international purposes. The importance of international relations in the political or cultural field has reached a deep meaning worldwide, to such an extent that one cannot speak only of the exchange of goods, but rather of integration programs. The international economy raises problems in relation to the factors of international economic transactions, and international trade.

General Objective

Analyze the processes involved in international trade, and the company's access to the globalization of the economy to direct and conduct all or part of an organization.

Specific Objectives

• Recognize the concepts and elements of international trade in relation to terms of trade and international balance.
• Distinguish the restrictions that countries have in their trade relations with others and the importance of agreements between them.
• Identify the causes and effects of trade between countries for decision-making in the field of administration.
• Determine the advantages that international trade has for the company as a means to expand business relations internationally.

Contents

• Introduction
• The law of comparative advantage
• International balance
• The Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model.
• Growth and trade
• Distortions to free trade

Credits: 4
Type of course: Theoretical-practical
Requirements: None 

Description 

The emergence of rapid and profound changes, produced by phenomena such as globalization, the opening of markets, and the accelerated advance of communications, force companies to apply the most modern management techniques, in order to constantly adapt to the evolution of the environment. Management practices such as strategic planning, reengineering, total quality management, and service management, among others, are gaining relevance today for the development of competitive advantages. Managers are aware of the role that human resource management plays in the organizations they lead, because these organizations are no longer simple, not so much because of the structural complexity they may have, but because of the interactions with an environment that has made them subjects. , active or not, from a globalized world, from a world that has changed the rules of the managerial game, and continues to change them every day.

General Objective

Analyze from a systemic conception, the importance and main functions of human resources and their importance in administration, for the development of business strategies.

Specific Objectives

• Recognize the importance of human resources for the continuous improvement of the quality and productivity of the company, as a determining factor in the development and productivity of the company.
• Describe the principles and procedures related to the evaluation of the company's workforce for the recruitment, selection, training, development and evaluation of personnel for the company.
• Describe the different techniques used for the analysis and classification of positions for the hiring of personnel.
• Identify the principles of wage administration and techniques for conducting labor market studies.
• Interpret the concept of a healthy company, and the occupational health standards for the company's social security.

Contents

• The administration of human resources in organizations.
• Job analysis and design
• Salary administration
• Labor market studies
• Training
• Performance evaluation
• Labor Relations
• Social Security