Accountancy and Control - Business Analysis and Control Tilburg University

Overview

The Master’s program offers you in-depth knowledge of leading international accounting standards, forecasting a firm’s value, and executing management control. In this track, you will learn to meet management’s information needs, ensuring the integrity and quality of data for informed decision-making. You will develop skills in providing timely financial analysis, recommendations, and becoming the business partner for executives. Important topics such as business performance analysis, budgeting and forecasting, and data-driven solutions are covered in the program.

• Expand your skills to work out creative data-driven solutions and to convince management to implement measures that bring organizational success to the next level.
• Improve your communication skills to engage colleagues across your organization and understand everyone's role in the process.
• Apply the latest academic knowledge in business analyses and control to real-life cases, using up-to-date material, assignments, and discussions with your teacher and your classmates.
• In your 'Master File Accountancy and Control' – a dynamic project instead of the traditional thesis – you will develop a portfolio that tackles real-world business challenges and current accounting issues, includes data analysis and academic findings, and incorporates your personal learning journey.
• Lectures are concentrated on two fixed weekdays (Tuesdays/Fridays) and timing of supervision sessions are published well in advance, so you can plan work and an internship around them.

Career prospects

Some examples of our graduates' jobs:

• Business and Data Analyst 

• Finance or Business Controller 
• Financial Manager