ACF Accounting & corporate finance

The course units of the professional Master in Accounting & Corporate Finance cover the three following thematic areas:

• Financial Statements Area: it covers topics related to how to draft and interpret standard and consolidated financial statements, international accounting principles and risk management.
• Performance Audit Area: it covers topics such as corporate planning analysis, cost analysis, budgeting, transfer pricing and performance analysis multidimensional systems.
• Corporate Finance Area: it analyses topics such as capital budgeting, corporate evaluation, extraordinary growth finance, and also topics related to big data and business analytics.

The Master’s Degree in Accounting & Corporate Finance is addressed to:

• People who already work in the administration, finance and control field, and want to update their knowledge, in order to become “business partners” for the other corporate areas.
• Newly graduates who wish to complement their Bachelor’s Degree by acquiring advanced knowledge.
• Anyone without an accounting or finance background who wants to reposition themselves professionally and develop specific competencies, by mastering the tools and concepts typical of these roles.

The Master trains the following professional figures: junior and senior controllers; administrative directors; corporate consultants; performance audit managers; CFO.

The Master’s Degree in Accounting & Corporate Finance provides training on:

ACCOUNTING COURSE

Before the start of the lessons, there will be a 16-hour Accounting Course, mandatory for anyone without a BA in the field of Economics, or at least 2 years of work experience in the administrative/finance sector.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

It covers the financial statement drafting logic, with focus on the income statement, balance sheet and financial statement analysis and interpretation techniques.

INVESTMENT ANALYSIS

It analyses the main investment evaluation techniques.

FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANNING AND CONTROL

It describes the techniques to develop contribution margin analysis, product cost calculation, budget planning and variance analysis implementation.

FUNDAMENTALS OF CONTROL, COST ANALYSIS AND BUDGETING

Illustrates techniques for developing contribution margin analysis, calculating product cost, defining budgets, and implementing variance analysis

INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES

It covers the structure of accounting documents, according to the IFRS principles, and it focuses on the role of the Other Comprehensive Income and on tangible and intangible asset accounting.

COST ANALYSIS AND BUDGETING

It describes the techniques to develop contribution margin analysis, product cost calculation, budget planning and variance analysis implementation.

CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

It covers the topic of group governance and shows how to draft and interpret the consolidated financial statements.

STRATEGIC CONTROL: RESPONSIBILITY, INCENTIVES AND PERFORMANCE

It covers the topic of the organizational structure and the different types of existing organizations, with reference to their design principles and human resource evaluation.

STRATEGIC PLANNING

It covers industrial plan and business plan drafting techniques.

BIG DATA AND BUSINESS ANALYTICS

It covers the topic of how to use big data in order to collect useful information for supporting corporate decisions.

MANAGING THE RELATIONSHIPS WITH BANKS AND CORPORATE RATING OPTIMIZATION

It analyses the set of rules that regulate the credit business, and it focuses on the techniques that help assess and improve the creditworthiness of a company.

RISK MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS

It analyses how to identify potential corporate risks and how they are related to performance evaluation.

MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ESG REPORTING MODELS

It addresses the topic of multidimensional systems for analyzing company performance and ESG reporting

MODELS AND TOOLS FOR CONTROL AND PLANNING

It illustrates the operational techniques for implementing control and planning tools in the company, also from a consultancy perspective.

CORPORATE ASSESSMENT AND EXTRAORDINARY FINANCE

It covers the topics of corporate assessment, acquisition and merging operations, dividend policies and financial structure choices.

CASH MANAGEMENT

It covers the models and operating tools to create and manage effective cashflow planning systems.

LISTING ON REGULATED MARKETS AND PRIVATE EQUITY

It covers the topics of Venture Capitals and Private Equity, buy-out leverage, corporate listing, and debt offering.

CORPORATE TAXATION

It covers the topic of tax management and accounting.

TRANSFER PRICING

It analyses the role of transfer pricing and the calculation techniques to identify and mitigate possible benefits and risks related to the transfer price policy adopted.

ANTI-LAUNDERING AND FRAUD PREVENTION

It analyses the suitable tools to understand and prevent corporate frauds.

IT LAB activities will include lessons and practice on how to use data structuring, analysis and reporting software to support corporate decision-making processes. The ACF Master’s Degree organizes three workshops:

• One-day SAP lab. Through a partnership with the Keytech s.r.l. consultancy firm, all participants will learn how to use the ERP SAP, with the help of company simulations.
• Half-day advanced Excel lab. During this workshop, we will go over Excel’s advanced data management and analysis functions.
• Half-day lab with Tableau. During this workshop, we will learn how to use the Tableau software as a business intelligence tool.

All workshops are optional, and they will be held at the IT Lab of the Department of Economics and Management “M. Fanno”, Via Bassi 1, Padua.

Below, some of the professors of the Master’s Degree in Accounting & Corporate Finance describe the content of their courses. Dive for a few minutes into the educational experience of our Master’s Course!

Giacomo Boesso, full professor of Business administration.

Fabio Buttignon, full professor of Corporate finance.

Diego Campagnolo, associate professor of Business organization.

Fabrizio Cerbioni, full professor of Business administration.

Marco Ciabattoni, chartered accountant and statutory auditor.

Eugenio Comuzzi, full professor of Business administration.

Antonio Costantini, ricercatore of Business administration.

Francis De Zanche, partner of Adacta Advisory.

Michele Fabrizi, associate professor of Corporate finance.

Marco Fasan, associate professor of Business administration.

Elena Gaiani, business consultant at Strategya.

Paolo Gubitta, full professor of Business organization.

Tommaso Lazzarini, business consultant at Adacta Advisory.

Giovanna Michelon, professor of Accounting.

Giulia Milan, partner at Buttignon Zotti Milan & Co.

Marco Minozzi, business consultant at Strategya.

Francesco Naccarato, partner at 110 Advisory.

Alessandra Nicastro, business consultant at Adacta Advisory.

Antonio Parbonetti, full professor of Business administration.

Sonia Parolin, business consultant Adacta Advisory.

Emilio Passetti, associate professor of Business administration.

Luisa Pastega, chartered accountant and business consultant.

Michele Piazza, partner at Strategya.

Gaetano Terrin, partner at Studio Terrin & Associati.

Anna Trentin, Company Consultant for Adacta Advisor.

Daniele Vanin, accountant and auditor, Consimp Partner.

Matteo Zingales, chartered accountant and statutory auditor.

The general ranking of merit for the academic year 2024/25 will be published on the Italian page of this Master according to the timing provided in the Call.