MODULE 1 - FINANCIAL STRATEGY

Corporate Strategy and Sustainability

• Corporate and business strategy
• International strategy
• Economic and financial environment
• Taxation and legal context
• Sustainable investment and socially responsible investment
• Traditional business models versus innovative business models

Financial engineering

• Structuring-modeling techniques for financial engineering
• Quantitative financial analysis
• Cost of money and interest rate (Compound and discount)
• Binomial and Black-Scholes models
• Mathematical and quantifying Finance

MODULE 2 - PLANNING AND CONTROL

Financial planning and cash management

• Budget process
• Operational, capital, and teacher budgets
• Financial modelling techniques
• Management of the treasury
• Cash pooling and internal banking

Management control

• Cost accounting and management accounting
• Activity-based cost system
• Relevant and irrelevant costs for decision-making
• Measurement of results
• Balanced Scorecard (Financial Perspective)
• Dashboard (KPIs)

MODULE 3 - CORPORATE FINANCE

Financial analysis and business valuation

• Main financial statements
• Reformulation and analysis of the profit and loss account
• Analysis of the balance sheet
• Working capital management
• Ratio Analysis and Financial Diagnosis
• Cost of capital and value creation
• Valuation of companies

Corporate finance

• The restructuring processes
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Audit of purchases (Due Diligence)
• Legal and fiscal aspects in the restructuring process
• Internal and external financing
• Venture capital and alternative financing

MODULE 4 - RISK MANAGEMENT

Markets and financial tools

• Primary versus secondary market: initial public offering
• Macroeconomic factors and actors in financial markets
• Interbank market
• Digital financial services
• Fixed and variable income assets
• Optimization of short-term assets
• Factoring and confirming

Risk analysis and portfolio management

• Investment valuation and sustainable investment criteria
• Automated asset management
• Operational, market, and country risk
• Financial and operational risk models
• Variance and covariance (Standard deviation)
• Modern portfolio theory
• Risk-adjusted profitability measures
• Investment funds

MASTER'S THESIS

It’s not just the research paper you need to do in order to get your master’s degree — it’s the right time and the right place for you to combine your academic experience with your professional ambition, personal vision and your creativity. It’s your chance to put everything you’ve been learning into practice and to work in order to get to where you want to be.