Finance, Control and Auditing

This course will tackle the following topics: detection and analysis of the internal control system, risk management. Auditing, reviewing budget reports, preforming legal checks on accounts. The methodological approach in reviewing accounts. Legal investigation of accounts for industrial and commercial companies. Fraud auditing.

Corporate sustainability and the circular economy are currently among the most discussed topics internationally, also due to climate change. The aim of the course is to understand why these issues are of such importance, underlining their urgency. We will learn more about the innovation activities of operational and system processes that companies adopt to implement strategies aimed at the Circulary Economy and the transition to a low carbon business model.

The evaluation of terms of convenience of investment projects. The determination of the value of a company. Understanding fiscal variables that determine the optimal financial structure. Venture capital and the principle problematic characteristics to the value of a company. 

The decision making process of the company and strategic positioning, the evaluation of the politics involved in each of the activities of a company. Analysis of the critical success factors in the related market, the resources and the specific competencies of a company. The process of creating value and the role of relationships with other companies within the business system. Business Plan and its deployment.

The concept of cost. The principle of relativism and the main information needs  about the cost calculations. The role of management accounting within the company’s accounting system. The classifications of costs. The reference objects. The stock records. The cost of labor. The cost of durable productive factors. The issue of the allocation of indirect costs. The allotment criteria. only Base, multiple basis and cost centers. The cost of product configurations. Full cost and Direct cost. The income statement “flag.” The costs to support business decisions. The break-even analisys. Defining COAN and articulation of its elaboration process. Method of keeping the COAN. The accounting for cost centers (recovery and investigation). The Activity Based Costing. Differences between the two methodologies. The target costing.

The course aims to introduce students to the most relevant issues (foundational and more advanced) of digital technologies, discussing the most important present and future consequences on the lives of individuals and on the structure and functioning of organizations and processes. The course consists of 5 seminars: Ai & Machine Learning, All-in Security, Cloud & Beyond, The Science of Data, Internet of Things.

Accounting, budget and analysis of costs. The evaluation and interpretation of the economic–financial performance of the company. Economic-financial analysis forecast and budget. The calculation and analysis of the costs in decision making and for management control. Management control as an operative mechanism. Systems of control and strategic cost management.

Provides an overview of annual financial reports: logic; objective; postulates; evaluation and representation of items consistently with International Financial Reporting Standards (IAS-IFRSs) and Italian Accounting Standards (OICs). Coordination between the net income emerging from the income statement and the taxable income. Financial consolidated statements: objectives and rules for drafting..

The course introduces the basic principles of accounting: economic information, how it is developed, how it is used. The budget and the main management control tools will be introduced to improve decision-making and problem-solving skills in a business context.

Evaluation of investment projects. Evaluation of international projects. Financial structure. Optimal financial structure. Instability costs. Planning debt. The politics of dividends and stock buyback. Cost of the working capital of the company. The important role of capital and corporate governance.

The analysis and the planning of the control systems. Monitoring systems of the multidimensional performance. Value based management. Management of costs and the techniques of cost management. Monitoring and reporting of the intellectual capital. Incentive systems. Management of costs between companies and during new project phases. Target cost management: strategic control of innovation. Customer value management and pricing techniques.