The “new needs” in the field of Administration, Finance and Control are to be interpreted from a quantitative as well as from a qualitative perspective.

In the last two decades companies, in almost all industrial sectors, have seen an exponential growth of the structural complexity level: range of products/services, the number of geographic operational areas, the number of strategic business areas/strategic business units. And that’s not enough! They ever increasingly operate in contexts characterised by growing environmental discontinuity and by limited resources. Companies are ever more and more pressed by the need of “looking ahead”, of adopting a strategic approach to the governance of company events and processes that is no longer based on facing contingency. They need to use a rational and predictive approach in company management which enables them to be better equipped for the survival of the company structure, but also to be successfully in front of the new rules of competition. It becomes essential to understand how to act in order to attain the goals and objectives set, how to best govern operational processes as well as organisational, administrative, financial, an in a wider sense, of strategic governance of the organisation in order to achieve the goal of creating value.

The nemesis of management is uncertainty. Only appropriate information can reduce uncertainty. The need for information has never been so apparent!
Which are the company profiles, the people responsible for satisfying these needs?
The AFC area with its directly or indirectly connected professional profiles (Administration, Management Control, Finance, Internal Auditing, Planning and Strategic Control, Information Systems) acquire a central role in any company:

The Master’s course aim is to train people capable of effectively and efficiently supervise processes, methodologies and operational mechanisms of the Administration, Finance and Control area; at the end of the Master’s course our students will be able to:

This Master’s course is meant to “lever up” an approach that is firmly based on the “learning by doing” mode matching, in a well balanced way, classroom-based training sessions to actual “trial benches” (project work) in which to test simulations of the methodologies and mechanisms learnt in classroom.

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Teaching model

 

1. Classroom training (Let’s share knowledge): it is the phase of “theoretical” framework setting, in which the traditional and advanced, administrative, finance and control methods and tools are illustrated to the participants; in this phase lecturers, managers, company law experts will share with participants the goals (what is the use of’) and utilisation modes (how to use them’) of the tools being described; 600 hours out of a total amount of 1.500 made available by the Master’s course will be devoted to this phase;
2. Project Work (Let’s try to do it): the aim of this training phase is to accompany the participant in under standing how what he/she studied as “theory” can be translated into practice in a company setting of one of the businesses that will participate in the Master’s course training project, The participants, divided into small groups, will develop projects and simulations, with the constant support of one of the lecturers; the time devoted to this specific training session corresponds to 280 hours among the 1,500 made available by the Master’s course on the whole;
3. Training period (Let’s try it on the field): the training period will represent for many of the participants the time to enter into the company, the time when “they start doing something” testing the skills acquired during their university career and (obviously) during the Master’s course; we are firmly persuaded of the fact that this training period represents an essential moment along the training path envisaged by the Master’s course; in this phase the participant has to go on on learning, of course in different way compared to what he/she did in the past; for this reason we think that it is of vital importance to support the participant, by the help of a specific teacher, in all the phases of his/her training (selection, carrying on, follow-up).

Target group and requirements

Venue

How to enrol

Enrolment fee

1. Participation in the classroom lessons that are listed in the presentation of the train project;
2. Support by a teacher via e-mail along the whole course duration;  
3. Training materials;
4. Multimedia lecture notes.