FINANCE FOR EXECUTIVES

Measuring and managing financial performance for implementing strategy

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Dates

9-11 July, 2018

Value Drivers 

Managers are constantly faced with financial data and concepts that they must not only understand and analyze, but also manage and communicate to others. Moreover, managers working for international companies or groups must gain a comprehensive knowledge of international accounting principles and have the ability to discuss them with the holding company or headquarter representatives by using appropriate finance terminology.

Finance for Executives is a program specifically designed for managers working for international companies and willing to develop a greater understanding and awareness of the economic implications of their decisions when it comes to planning and defining objectives, and evaluating performance.

Contents

Participants will develop the ability to read and manage the financial performance of a company through a 3-step process

UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
 
  • Accounting-based performance evaluation: an overview
  • International accounting principles: the language to assess and communicate financial results
 
LINKING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE TO STRATEGY
 
  • Linking financial performance to strategy: developing a set of key financial indicators
  • Assessing the financial sustainability of company growth strategy
 
MANAGING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: STRATEGY EXECUTION
 
  • Executing company strategy: from key financial indicators to key value drivers
  • How to manage value drivers: management control systems in multinational companies

Learning Model 

The learning experience is based on four pillars:

  • Traditional methodological sessions and case-based discussions
  • The customized opportunity to analyze with our faculty members the financial results of your company. This will give you the opportunity to immediately implement the tools analyzed during the program
  • Company visit in a primary Italian multinational company (Campari)
  • Key note speech on relevant issues in performance measurement systems

Participants

  • Non-financial managers working for subsidiaries controlled by foreign holding companies or for branches of international companies
  • General Managers of small and medium-sized international companies
  • Managers of business units (business divisions, departments, branches) within medium and large-sized companies

Faculty 

  • David Crackett - SDA Professor of Accounting, Control, Corporate and Real Estate Finance Department.
  • Andrea Dossi - Associate Dean for SDA Faculty. Professor of Management Control Systems SDA Bocconi, Bocconi University.
  • Paolo Marchesini - Chief Financial Officer at Gruppo Campari.
  • Marco Morelli - SDA Professor of Management Control Systems, Program Director.

Enrollment procedure 

Please complete the enrollment request form, available on this web page, and mail or fax to:

SDA Bocconi School of Management
fax +39 02 5836.6892 pilar.aguero@sdabocconi.it

Please see details in the enrollment form.

Participation fee 

€ 3.300 + VAT (if required)

Prezzo:

€ 3300.00 + IVA