Accounting, Financial Management and Control
Overview
The program 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.
Antonio Marra
Firms are complex institutions that operate in multifaceted business environments. To succeed in these contexts it is necessary to integrate technical knowledge related to financial reporting, financial and risk management and performance measurement with the ability to read the business world and interpret its evolutionary trends.
To this end, we provide students with knowledge of economics, law, financial markets and financial institutions, corporate governance and management. We offer the opportunity to learn how to combine and use these sets of knowledge to operate efficiently and effectively in organizations, and to make difficult decisions. The program’s teaching approach supports the achievement of this objective by providing more than just specialized knowledge and competencies, but also the know-how required to operate in an evolving, connected and international work context.
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