The questions of how to measure and manage financial as well as non-financial performance and risk in organisations are crucial issues for strategy implementation and management control. This concentration provides you with the skills to design, analyse and implement performance and risk measurement systems.
 

Management of organisational performance, financial positions and risks are based on analyses of the economic structures of the organisation. You need to have the understanding of an organisation’s financial affairs to analyse these issues, which are crucial input for aligning the organisational architecture, operations and employees with strategy as well as controlling value creation processes. You are provided with the frameworks needed to design, analyse and implement both new and more traditional performance and risk management systems.

Career Opportunities
This concentration will develop your competences to:
• develop and implement company strategies and finance policy
• apply cost, performance and risk measures for decision making and strategy implementation
• apply management accounting and performance measurement concepts in particular organisational settings
• analyse financial and nonfinancial information relevant to evaluate and control value creation
• measure growth, risk, performance and cash flows, and estimate the value of businesses
• implement financial and other measurement systems in a cross-functional perspective.