Franco
Visani
Italy Associate Professor of Business Administration University of Bologna Core Faculty
Franco Visani, Ph.D., is an Associate at the University of Bologna, where he teaches financial and management accounting. He is the Associate Dean for Open Programs at Bologna Business School, where he also directs the Hybrid MBA and two open programs: Administration, Finance, and Control, and Finance for Non-Finance Managers. Additionally, he teaches in several Executive Master’s programs at the same school, where he has been voted best teacher four times: for Executive Masters (2011 and 2021), for Professional Masters (2017), and for international programs (2019).
He has always been active, first as a consultant and then as a researcher, in the fields of advanced Management Control Systems and business performance analytics, which involve the use of mathematical-statistical methods for performance control. In these areas, he has participated in numerous national and international research programs. On these topics, he has authored various monographs and over 50 national and international publications, particularly in highly prestigious international journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, and Ecological Economics. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Controllo di Gestione” and a reviewer for several international journals.
COURSES
A correct layout of the Supply Chain and business Operations requires the skills to assess ex ante the economic and financial effects of the decisions that are taken and to check them ex post. The course adopts this perspective, providing participants with the management accounting tools aimed at understanding the budget of a current or prospective supplier, making assessments for business decisions, understanding the trade-off between discounts and deferments of payment in a commercial negotiation, assessing the Total Cost of Ownership of a supply. All these concepts will be illustrated by means of cases taken from real business applications.
- Economic analysis of the operating processes
- Total Cost of Ownership of the supplier
- Assessment of the financial impact of different layouts of the Supply Chain
- From the purchase cost to the Life Cycle Costing
- Economic-financial analysis of current or prospective suppliers: managerial techniques and assessments
- Value creation throughout the supply chain
Performance Management system course covers the use of economic and financial information to manage competitive advantage; models for the analysis of economic and financial performance; parameters for the valuation of the profitability of a company; financial sustainability for the tax performance of a company; strategic sustainability of a company’s performance; economic and financial benchmarking; budget analysis for the management of vendor client relations; strategic control systems and performance monitoring (Balanced Scorecard); simulation techniques for economic and financial performance; performance management.
Executive MBAThe use of economic and financial information to manage competitive advantage. Models for the analysis of economic and financial performance. Parameters for the valuation of the profitability of a company. Financial sustainability for the tax performance of a company. Strategic sustainability of a company’s performance. Economic and financial benchmarking. Budget analysis for the management of vendor client relations. Strategic control systems and performance monitoring (Balanced Scorecard). Simulation techniques for economic and financial performance. Performance management.
Hybrid MBA HybridThe use of economic and financial information to manage competitive advantage. Models for the analysis of economic and financial performance. Parameters for the valuation of the profitability of a company. Financial sustainability for the tax performance of a company. Strategic sustainability of a company’s performance. Economic and financial benchmarking. Budget analysis for the management of vendor client relations. Strategic control systems and performance monitoring (Balanced Scorecard). Simulation techniques for economic and financial performance. Performance management.
