Accounting, Financial Management and Control

Bocconi University Campus, Milan, Italy

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Programme overview

Study Level

Masters

The Master of Accounting, Financial Management and Control provides students with all the competencies and skills related to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) profession, preparing them to analyze problems and make managerial decisions from a plurality of perspectives. The same set of knowledge and competencies and skills could also be successfully applied to operating within auditing firms, consulting firms and financial institutions.

The CFO plays a diverse set of key and challenging roles within all firms:

ensuring compliance with financial regulations, preparing financial statements and communicating value and risk information to investors and boards
providing financial leadership and aligning business and financial strategy to expand the business and make investments as well as overseeing the capital structure of the company
developing and implementing internal and management control systems designed to protect company assets and report business performance.

Teaching leverages on a large number of methods with different objectives: lectures, class discussion and press analysis to understand management models, algorithms and methodologies; case studies, videos, inviting speakers from the business community to visualize and scrutinize organizational complexity; finally, simulations to improve data analysis, interpretation and decision making.

The main career path, though not the only one, is that of Chief Financial Officer in manufacturing, commercial and service firms as well as in financial institutions. More specifically, the main entrance areas are represented by the following:

Activities as accountants, management accountants and controllers in various kinds of firms, with roles in the areas of financial statement preparation and analysis, investor relations, corporate finance, internal control, planning and the design of performance measurement and control systems
Activities related to accounting, corporate finance and control in management consulting firms, auditing companies and in other consulting organizations that support customers in designing accounting information systems and in managing extraordinary operations such as mergers and acquisitions

You can start your application process here.

Programme overview

Study Level

Masters

The CFO plays a diverse set of key and challenging roles within all firms:

ensuring compliance with financial regulations, preparing financial statements and communicating value and risk information to investors and boards
providing financial leadership and aligning business and financial strategy to expand the business and make investments as well as overseeing the capital structure of the company
developing and implementing internal and management control systems designed to protect company assets and report business performance.

Activities as accountants, management accountants and controllers in various kinds of firms, with roles in the areas of financial statement preparation and analysis, investor relations, corporate finance, internal control, planning and the design of performance measurement and control systems
Activities related to accounting, corporate finance and control in management consulting firms, auditing companies and in other consulting organizations that support customers in designing accounting information systems and in managing extraordinary operations such as mergers and acquisitions

You can start your application process here.

Scholarships

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Accounting, Financial Management and Control

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