Main Goals

The main goals of this Master are principally to meet the challenges of the financial and accounting instances by centering the curriculum on the most recent auditing, accounting, and financial techniques, approaches, and models. Furthermore, the Master aims at helping the students to master the techniques of strategic and operational management, viewed from the dimension of auditing, management control, and finance.
Job Opportunities
Internal auditor, external auditor, financial and accounting auditor, the head of the financial and accounting department, etc.

Targeted Audience

The students that can be interested in this Master are those that have a B.A. in economics, accountancy, finance, and who are motivated to get involved in finance. Furthermore, the Master is devoted to the people who are already working in financial institutions, banks, and corporations and who want to deepen their practical and theoretical knowledge.

CURRICULUM

• Management control and accountancy

The concepts that are embedded are mainly: target costing, balanced scorecard, budgeting, ethics and the professional deontology of accounting system and.

• Financial analysis and accountancy

 
The analysis and interpretation of the financial information stemming from the financial statements and accounting documents is inferred in the context of the traditional and modern financial tools.

• Auditor’s missions

All the missions of the auditors are fully expounded with an emphasis on the practical cases.

• Management control

The basic and advanced tools of management control constitute the “meat” of this course.

• Specific-sector Management control

Management control is analyzed after taking account of the sector-specific characteristics, such as banking, touristic sector, servicing, etc.

• Groups and corporations accountancy

This course describes the different accounting stages for the constitution of the groups, raising authorized capital, and so forth.

• Financial Diagnosis of distressed firms 

This course deals with the financial analysis of financially-distressed firms and how implementing CHAPTER 11 becomes possible in the light of their distress. It also advances their return analysis using the commonly-used financial ratios.

• Corporations and groups valuation

Many recently developed methods are used such as EVA, MVA, valuation methods based on market values comparison, DCF, real options, etc.

• Financial lesgislation

The financial securities and their characteristics are discussed from the peculiar angle of legislation. Certainly, such characteristics vary across countries, which gives rise to an important number of differences and similarities of financial instruments. 

• Practical applications

Practical cases are analyzed using data from real world and compared to simulated results.

• Management control techniques

The concepts that are encompassed in the course are mainly the planning, budgeting, production, costing and son on. The real-world applications include several industry-specific characteristics.

• Banking and control

This course deals with the banking control and the supervision procedures used to control for risks. The Basel II recommendations are also taken into account.

• Auditing and international finance

The basics of international marketplaces working, international investments, potfolio diversification, and the role of auditing.

• Computerized applications and NTIC (New Information and Communication Technologies)

This course analyses jointly the role of new information and communication technologies in shaping the new context of corporations. Many computer applications are used for corroboration.

• Financial and Accounting Packages

Introduction to Risk Metrics, Credit Metrics, Bloomberg, Reuters, Condor, etc.

• Three-month training

The professional training period lasts three months in a privately-held or publicly-traded corporation.

• A dissertation

The dissertation must focus on a recent topic that is simultaneously related to theory and practice.