International Sustainable Finance & Management

Central lectures

Central lessons are given and very often include a few guest lectures by experts and professionals from the Finance & Accounting field to ensure the presence of the practice rational and continuous relevance.

Assignments

In order to support students in their project assignment guest lectures are offered by experts and practitioners in the field. Weekly meetings are organised per project group. 

Type of assessment

You have to give presentations, submit papers and take written exams.

If you have successfully completed this exchange programme then you are able to:

• Comprehensively evaluate financial performance of the company and its responsibility centres from different stakeholders’ perspective, applying advanced tools of financial analysis.
• Evaluate existing management control systems, including performance measurement, incentive and management compensation systems from the perspective of their ability to support the implementation of company’s strategy and achievement of goals.
• Apply and evaluate the effects of the accounting systems differences on the process of company valuation.
• Apply and analyse concepts and models of traditional corporate finance and alternative finance to make a contribution to strategic financing decisions
• Explore the risks involved in using alternative financing for SME’s
• Illustrate how the auditing process contributes to a fair view of the financial statements and to fraud protection
• Create (design and produce) a report providing recommendations for dealing with finance and accounting challenges in the real life cases (company or organisations), by conducting comprehensive, business, strategic, accounting and financial analysis and evaluation.
• Ability to identify the difference between traditional, circular and sustainable business models and the ability to identify accounting issues in new business models.
• Ability to make clear what sustainable Finance & Accounting means from a management point of view.
• Explain the management of acquiring and analysing relevant information in order to support value creating decisions
• Differentiate, analyse and evaluate performance measurement and management control alternatives (results, action, personnel and cultural controls).
• Illustrate and argue how the management control system contributes to a fair view of the financial statements and to fraud protection
• Explain and apply contingency approach of internal control
• Critically reflect on the process of working in the group and creating a report for the innovative project and come up with the ways for its improvement.

Block 1

Block 2

Blocks

Every school year is divided into two semesters. A fall semester (September – December/January) and a spring semester (February – June/July). Both semesters are divided into two blocks. Block 1 and 2 for the fall semester and block 3 and 4 for the spring semester.