Accounting, Financial Management and Control

Overview

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.

Career Opportunities

The main career path of graduates of the Accounting, Financial Management and Control programme at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, though not the only one, is that of Chief Financial Officer in manufacturing, commercial and service firms as well as in financial institutions. More specifically, the main entrance areas are represented by the following: 

• Activities as accountants, management accountants and controllers in various kinds of firms, with roles in the areas of financial statement preparation and analysis, investor relations, corporate finance, internal control, planning and the design of performance measurement and control systems
• Activities related to accounting, corporate finance and control in management consulting firms, auditing companies and in other consulting organizations that support customers in designing accounting information systems and in managing extraordinary operations such as mergers and acquisitions