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Opleiding: Professional MBA Strategy & Controlling

Learning purpose

The WU Executive Academy’s Professional MBA Strategy & Controlling offers a powerful synergy of the latest financial management expertise and strategy-orientated controlling. Value and risk management and a thorough knowledge of capital markets are transmitted by an top international faculty alongside core business and leadership topics. The program focuses on the need to link innovative strategic planning and balanced financial management for sustained corporate success in a rapidly evolving world.

Target audience

• High potentials seeking to further develop profound knowledge in strategy, controlling and finance
  Practitioners from strategy departments as well as from the controlling and finance sector aiming at enriching their practical know-how with an in-depth postgraduate education
  Executives and employees of consulting companies and investment banks

Programme

Structure

In the course of the part-time Professional MBA with specialization options, participants gain profound insights into core business subjects and a specific field or industry.
During the program, participants master the “Business Core” focusing on core business and management knowledge, techniques and leadership, while ensuring a maximum flexibility to foster their individual needs and ambitions during the “Specialization” modules.

Curriculum:
Business Core:

• Managing People
• Managing Organizations
• Competitive Analysis and Strategy
• Data Analysis & Decision Making
• Financial Reporting
• Controlling
• Financial Management
• Operations Management
• Marketing Management
• Global Markets
• Information Systems Management
• Managerial Economics
• Entrepreneurship & Innovation
• Leadership
• Ethics and CSR

Specialization:

Strategic Management
Corporate Governance: Corporate governance code as well as international developments in corporate governance; implementing timely governance principles within the organization.
Corporate and Business Strategies: Crafting value creating strategies at both business and corporate level with special emphasis on sustainability issues.
Strategic Performance Management: Covering key concepts of value-based management and levers of management, analyzing and managing of value drivers. Special emphasis is given to managing strategy implementation.
Corporate Risk Management: Key elements of corporate risk management systems, implementation strategy of a corporate risk management.
Strategy Dynamics: Modeling business strategies using system dynamics methodology to systematically link the strategic architecture of a firm to its financial performance.
 
Controlling and Accounting
IFRS: Components of financial statements, non-current assets and impairment as well as business combinations. IFRS and US financial reporting environment and financial analysis.
Particular focus is on financial instruments, foreign currencies in financial statements, balance sheet analysis and accounting policy.
Corporate Planning and Reporting: Target setting in strategy and functional planning, aligning target planning with balanced scorecard and value-based management, alternative concepts such as better budgeting and beyond budgeting.
Specific requirements of coherent management reports and presentations, value reporting with a strong focus on intellectual capital reporting.
Treasury and Financial Risk Management: Quality standards in treasury and financial risk management; integrated risk analysis, including value and cash-flow-at-risk, portfolio approach for interest and currency risk management.

Corporate Finance
Corporate Valuation: Covering frameworks for valuation, calculating and interpreting results, using multiples for valuation and options and their applications to capital budgeting (real options).
Mergers & Acquisitions: Focusing on take-over battles and the acquisitions process: due diligence and post acquisitions integration and leveraged buy-outs, spin-offs and restructurings.
Financial Engineering: Covering the valuation of bonds, forwards and futures, focusing on the valuation models for options and swaps, trading strategies of options, application of real options.

Entry Requirements

Application Requirements

To apply for the Professional MBA, you must meet the following requirements:

• Undergraduate degree, equivalent to a bachelor degree

• Minimum of three years of relevant work experience

• Proficiency of written and spoken English

• Completed application forms

• Curriculum Vitae

• Two letters of recommendation

Each Professional MBA participant is expected to have a personal computer and be familiar with MS Office software.

Admission Criteria

Students’ diversity is essential for the quality of the Professional MBA Program. Therefore, we carefully select all our MBA participants considering cultural and academic background, skills and work experience.

Examples of important criteria are:

• Solid career progression

• Management and leadership skills

• Ability to commit to a challenging program

• Interpersonal and communication skills

• A clear career vision

• Ambition and drive

The structure of the program and close collaboration in study groups encourages long-lasting business contacts and friendships.

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Opleiding kerngegevens

Course location(s)

Vienna, Austria and one International Residency to Vancouver, Canada.

Duration

18 months

Diploma

Diploma

Open enrollment

Yes

In Company/ Tailor-made possible

No

Start dates per year

fall