Programme information
Being a Controller means having an overview of a business situation: on the one hand, they understand the accounts; on the other, they have a grasp on the managerial side of the business. Controllers bridge the gap between management and accounting, which means they make excellent decision makers in businesses.
What will you learn?
Your education will focus on management and internal control, but it will also give you an overview of financial accounting principles. The opportunity to choose electives will allow you to tailor your master’s programme to your own interests.
At the end of the track, you will be able to:
• design management control instruments – such as scorecards, managerial incentives, budgets, and so on – to implement strategies, assess their effectiveness and report on this
• design and improve internal reporting systems
• help management to improve their decisions – relating to pricing and mergers & acquisitions
Electives for Track Controlling
The section ‘Programme structure’ includes all MSc International Business electives courses. However, in the 2010-2011 academic year, MSc International Business track Controlling students’ choices are limited to electives from the disciplines Finance, Organisation, Strategy or Information Management as listed below.
Period 1
- Cases in Management Information Systems
- Corporate Governance and Restructuring
- Organizational Change and Consultancy
- Financial Research Methods
- International Business Research
Period 2
- Corporate and Venture Finance
- Data Management
- Managing Organizational Learning
Period 4
- Behavioural Finance
- IT project management
- Leadership
- Financial Research Methods
- International Business Research
Period 5
- Managing IT in a Global Environment
- Managers @ Work
- Risk Management
