Financial Management and Fiduciary Services

You are passionate about...

• facts and figures
• value-based management control
• the relationship between business decisions and finance

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Career Opportunities

The Financial Management and Auditing specialisation will open up the following career areas to you:

• External auditing
• The fiduciary system
• Financial management for medium-sized and large companies
• Internal auditing
• Financial controlling

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Unique in Switzerland

This specialisation is offered in cooperation with the three large auditing firms PWC, Ernst & Young and KPMG, enabling you to acquire practical experience and build your network.

This specialisation teaches you how to apply your expertise to the financial management of companies. This requires the preparation of decision-relevant and trustworthy financial data as well as a targeted analysis, evaluation and interpretation of it. Interdisciplinary thinking and the development of alternative solutions is fostered. Auditing forms the basis for trustworthy communication to all stakeholders, especially to investors.

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Content

You will acquire skills in financial management and understand financial and business interrelationships:

• Standards for financial statement audits such as IFRS, FER and OR
• Consolidated accounts
• Audit strategies
• Concepts of business valuation
• Value-based management control
• Measuring, assessing and evaluating the performance of companies
• Target group-oriented communication of financial data

Module description

• Advanced Financial Reporting
• Auditing Principles
• Applied Financial Management
• Auditing Practice

ECTS-Points: 20
Teaching Language: German