The program provides students with all the competencies and skills related to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) profession, preparing them to analyze problems and make managerial decisions from a plurality of perspectives. The same set of knowledge and competencies and skills could also be successfully applied to operating within auditing firms, consulting firms and financial institutions.

The CFO plays a diverse set of key and challenging roles within all firms:

• ensuring compliance with financial regulations, preparing financial statements and communicating value and risk information to investors and boards
• providing financial leadership and aligning business and financial strategy to expand the business and make investments as well as overseeing the capital structure of the company
• developing and implementing internal and management control systems designed to protect company assets and report business performance.
   

Teaching leverages on a large number of methods with different objectives: lectures, class discussion and press analysis to understand management models, algorithms and methodologies; case studies, videos, inviting speakers from the business community to visualize and scrutinize organizational complexity; finally, simulations to improve data analysis, interpretation and decision making.