Requisiti di accesso, obiettivi e sbocchi

Requirements

Mandatory titles
  • [TSS] -
Optional titles (to choose from following)
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  • [L1] -
  • [TS] -
  • [LS] -

Objectives

Professional status.

HIGHLY QUALIFIED BUSINESS CONSULTANT
Owner of professional firms Functions of responsibility in business consultancy companies

BUSINESS FUNCTION RESPONSIBLE
Private, public and non-profit companies of all sizes and sectors of activity.

Obiettivi formativi specifici.

The Master's degree in 'Business Consulting and Management' aims to prepare highly qualified professionals with expertise in the fields of accounting and business consulting as well as business administration. On the business administration front, Master's graduates in 'Business Consulting and Management' will be qualified to support companies and public administrations, both externally and internally, in financial planning, budgeting and auditing, and economic-financial management control. The specific study objectives of the course are functional for the acquisition of skills that enable the graduate to provide advanced counselling in the field of: - planning of corporate information systems; - corporate accounting; - economic-financial assessments during extraordinary transactions; - legal auditing of accounts and balance sheets of private and public companies; - control of company performance; - economic, financial and managerial advisory to entities, companies and individuals, on both national and international scales, including for corporate crisis management - economic-financial analyses to support transfer pricing choices; - compliance audits (which also includes verification of quality control procedures); - planning, organization and management of internal auditing processes.
The professional figures formed will be able to manage the main business functions, in the various contexts of reference, either through full command of analysis techniques and application knowledge and support for decision-making processes, or by coordinating and organizing operational units and, finally, in functions outside the organization such as business consultants and professionals qualified in the economic and commercial profession. The Master's Degree Course in "Business Consultancy and Management" mainly welcomes students coming from degrees with an economic-business orientation, as well as students coming from degrees with an economic-political and economic-legal orientation. The Master's Degree in "Business Consulting and Management", therefore, is addressed to those who intend to complete their university studies by choosing a second-level course that can ensure the acquisition of specific skills in the business field, with a highly qualified profile both at a consulting and professional level (laying solid cultural foundations in view of the exercise of the profession of Chartered Accountant), and at a managerial level.
The course is organized in such a way that students examine specialized topics of an economic-business nature (company valuations and extraordinary transactions; financial control; accounting and auditing principles; business plans and business creation; corporate social and environmental responsibility), legal, statistical-quantitative, and economic nature at a master's level, with a particular focus on the latter with regard to public economics.
Interdisciplinary workshops and an appropriate internship in companies are planned. The thesis, which is the final moment of the course, is an important moment of examination, also theoretical-conceptual, on the topics studied in the course.
In addition, the master’s degree Course in 'Business Consulting and Management' has a curriculum in which some courses are taught in English, structured to meet the growing demand for master’s graduates capable of taking on operational and managerial roles in companies that also operate in international contexts.

Language(s) of instruction/examination.

ITALIAN, ENGLISH

Skills associated with the function

HIGHLY QUALIFIED BUSINESS CONSULTANT
The master's degree in Business Consulting and Management is qualified to deal with and solve the most complex problems of accounting, administration and taxation, of integrated management control and financial control, as well as those related to the extraordinary phases of a company's life. In particular, the master’s degree in Business Consulting and Management: - is able to support private and public companies in carrying out extraordinary business operations, also dealing with the valuation aspects related to these operations; - is familiar with the international accounting standards for the preparation of financial statements, and can therefore provide financial statement consultancy to all companies that apply IAS/IFRS standards (large companies, banks, insurance companies); - is familiar with the principles, techniques and tools of financial control and can therefore deal with and solve problems of financial risk assessment and management; - is able to prepare business plans for new entrepreneurial initiatives and already established companies; - in addition to other accounting skills, is also familiar with auditing principles and can therefore work effectively in the field of statutory auditing; - knows the principles and techniques of drawing up company financial statements and can also provide his professional services in this advisory field; - can follow companies in the crisis phase (bankruptcy curator, expert asseverator of restructuring plans, etc.).
BUSINESS FUNCTION MANAGER
As already mentioned, the Master's degree graduate in Business Consulting and Management is able to tackle and solve the most complex problems of decision-making, administration, integrated management control and financial control. Therefore, he/she can hold the following roles, even in large companies operating in different sectors: - administrative manager; - head of the finance function; - head of the planning and control function; - head of the risk controlling function; - head of internal control systems; - general manager, operations manager, management analyst, business consultant.

Function in a work context

HIGHLY QUALIFIED BUSINESS CONSULTANT
The Master's Degree Course in Business Consulting and Management prepares professional profiles with highly qualified skills for the profession of Chartered Accountant and Accounting Expert (with access to bracket A of the register, subject to passing the State examination, according to current regulations) and of business consultant. It is therefore aimed at students who intend to develop higher-level economic-business skills in the field of the accounting and business consultancy professions. In fact, the degree course integrates and enhances, as analytically indicated in the following point, the skills necessary for the performance of these activities acquired by students in the three-year business and economics class courses.

BUSINESS FUNCTION MANAGER
The specialized skills developed in management, surveying and control profiles enable graduates of the course to be able to manage the most complex phases and operations in the life of companies, operating in the main corporate functions within public and private enterprises, thus as a member of the personal body with roles of responsibility in the various contexts of reference, both through full command of analysis techniques and application knowledge and support for decision-making processes and by coordinating and organizing operational units.