Controlling and Finance Tools for Consultants

Fakultät

Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Version

Version 10.0 vom 12.10.2017

Modulkennung

22M0882

Modulname (englisch)

Controlling and Finance Tools for Consultants

Studiengänge mit diesem Modul
  • Business Management (M.A.)
  • International Business and Management (Master) (M.A.)
Niveaustufe

4

Kurzbeschreibung

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.

Lehrinhalte
  • 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
Lernergebnisse / Kompetenzziele

Wissensverbreiterung
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.
Wissensvertiefung

Können - instrumentale Kompetenz
Students are able to work confidently with key finance and controlling tools.
Können - kommunikative Kompetenz
Students who successfully complete this module are able to analyse operative issues in view of their financial implications, and interpret and present the results.
Können - systemische Kompetenz
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.

Lehr-/Lernmethoden

Lectures, exercises, literature research, case studies

Empfohlene Vorkenntnisse

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

Modulpromotor

Arnsfeld, Torsten

Lehrende

Rethschulte, Antje

Leistungspunkte

5

Lehr-/Lernkonzept
Workload Dozentengebunden
Std. WorkloadLehrtyp
38Vorlesungen und Fallstudiendiskussion
Workload Dozentenungebunden
Std. WorkloadLehrtyp
42Veranstaltungsvor-/-nachbereitung
25Bearbeitung von Fallstudien
10Literaturrecherche
35Prüfungsvorbereitung
Literatur

Reader from selected textbooks

Current magazine articles

Case study material

Prüfungsleistung
  • Hausarbeit
  • Klausur 1-stündig und Assignment
  • Klausur 2-stündig
  • Mündliche Prüfung
  • Präsentation
  • Projektbericht
  • Referat
Bemerkung zur Prüfungsform

none

Prüfungsanforderungen

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.

Dauer

1 Semester

Angebotsfrequenz

Nur Sommersemester

Lehrsprache

Englisch