Controlling and Finance Tools for Consultants

Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences

Version 10.0 of 10/12/2017

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Controlling and Finance Tools for Consultants

• Business Management (M.A.)
• International Business and Management (Master) (M.A.)

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What can external or internal consultants contribute to companies? How can these contributions be measured and communicated? Students are able to critically evaluate the complex decision-making processes within companies in view of the consultants' contribution to the achievement of financial business targets and present the added value of a project for the company.

• 1. Principles of business objectives
• Shareholders vs. stakeholders
• Financial control parameters
• Principles of value management
• 2. Value management
• Investment management
• Corporate assessment
• Approaches of value management
• 3. Selected measures to enhance shareholder value
• Make or buy? M&A management
• Working capital management
• Financial instrument
• Instruments of risk management

Knowledge Broadening
Students who successfully complete this module have a substantiated knowledge of the most important tools of controlling and of corporate finance used for the improvement of business performance as an approach for consultancy services.
Knowledge Deepening

Instrumental Skills and Competences
Students are able to work confidently with key finance and controlling tools.
Communicative Skills and Competences
Students who successfully complete this module are able to analyse operative issues in view of their financial implications, and interpret and present the results.
Systemic Skills and Competences
Students who successfully complete this module are able to consolidate information from different areas of a business and the business environment, analyse this information and develop it to the decision-making stage.

Lectures, exercises, literature research, case studies

management tools/exploring strategy, management concepts/strategy in action, fundamental knowledge of controlling and finances, fundamental principles of project and process management

Arnsfeld, Torsten

Rethschulte, Antje

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Reader from selected textbooks

Current magazine articles

Case study material

• Homework / Assignment
• Two-Hour Written Examination
• Viva Voce
• Presentation
• Project Report
• Oral Presentation / Seminar Paper

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Advanced knowledge of commonly-used finance and controlling tools, transfer of business practice, evaluation and estimates to issues within case study examples worked on in the module.

1 Term

Only Summer Term

English