professional regulations, economics and accounting
Legal subjects:
Securities.
The law on the sale of furniture by public auction:
– voluntary and judicial sales: concepts and distinctions;
– applicable texts;
– taxation;
– droit de suite;
– State intervention: right of pre-emption;
– imports and exports of works of art;
– illicit trafficking in works of art.
The fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Professional regulation:
Status of operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction and persons authorised to conduct voluntary sales;
Organisation and powers of the council of auction houses;
Deontology and discipline;
Professional civil liability.
Economic and accounting subjects:
The operation of markets:
– the delimitation of the relevant market;
– the supply function;
– the demand function;
– the equilibrium of the market in competition.
Imperfect markets:
– monopoly markets;
– oligopoly markets;
– the role of information asymmetries;
– auction markets.
Competitive strategies:
– the temptation to collude;
– differentiation strategies;
– exclusionary strategies.
Accounting and finance:
– accounting principles;
– the concept of depreciation and provisions.
Understanding the main accounting documents:
– balance sheet;
– income statement;
– cash flow statement.
Analysis of the accounts through the main ratios:
– economic performance;
– financial performance;
– lead times for storage and payment of customers and suppliers.
Management accounting:
– objectives of cost calculation.
Notion of cost:
-direct cost/indirect cost;
-variable cost/fixed cost.
Determining the break-even point:
– partial cost methods;
– full cost method (simple case of allocating indirect costs).
Knowledge of arts and techniques
History and technique:
– furniture and seating;
– painting, prints and drawings;
– engraving;
– sculpture;
– ceramics;
– goldsmithing and jewellery;
– books, manuscripts and autographs;
– carpets and tapestries;
– collectors’ weapons and historical memorabilia;
– coins;
– archaeology.
– art from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
Marks and hallmarks, titles and alloys.
Knowledge of museum collections.
History of public and private collections; developments in the art market.
Special practice:
Specificity of the art market;
Identification and appraisal of art objects.
The practice of voluntary sales
of furniture at public auction
The practice of sales by public auction of furniture:
– preparation of sales;
– management of sales and incidents;
– drafting of deeds and record keeping.
Practice:
– estimates and prisées;
– inventories;
– expert appraisals;
– partitioning.
Special practices:
Inventories, valuations and sales of industrial, commercial and agricultural equipment, company stocks and vehicles.
Wholesale sales practice.
Living languages
German.
English.
Chinese.
Spanish.
Italian.
Russian.