OPEN ENROLMENT

Management Control II, in-depth financial analysis and control systems

In Management Control II, we go deeper into the analyses of the financial statements and apply a broad perspective on control systems and control. Current research is combined with practice and the participants’ own experiences.

Lecturer:

Johan Åkesson

Study time:

2 days

Language:

Swedish

Price:

16 900 SEK (excl VAT), lunches included

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The Management Control II programme creates an understanding of how analysis of financial statements can form the basis for different decisions. Examples of internal decisions are performance assessment and/or profitability monitoring, examples of external decisions are to assess companies’ financial stability and/or ability to pay.

The programme also provides knowledge of the relationships between a company’s financing and its growth ambitions as well as possible expectations of profitability.

Additionally, the participants gain an increased understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the design and use of control systems and how these can support the realization of a business’s strategies. A broader perspective on governance is taken, based on established theoretical frameworks that support the ability to identify and discuss different policy instruments.

Current research is combined with practice to build up the participants’ ability to analyse their business governance and develop it in the desired direction.

 

Faculty: Johan Åkesson

Johan Åkesson holds a Licentiate degree in Business administration. He has 25 years of experience as a lecturer and as a management consultant, sharing his time between academia and management consulting.

Johan conducts research on issues regarding management control systems. His main teaching fields are management control and management accounting, as well as behavioural aspects of these areas.

He is a highly appreciated lecturer in broad a range of executive education programmes for customers like Volvo Cars, SKF, IKEA, Investment AB Latour, Capio, VGR and the City of Gothenburg, lecturing on topics like performance management and basic management accounting – concepts, definitions, and relationships.

 Since 2019 Johan also teaches the Management Accounting programme module of the Executive MBA programme (60 hec) at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg.

Target group:
Finance managers, business developers, controllers, and others with direct or indirect responsibility for the business’s finances and results and who have completed Management Control I or have basic knowledge of accounting, financial relationships, and financial control models.

 

NB: The programme is delivered in Swedish.

Date and place:
Autumn 2024, date TBD – at the School of Business, Economics and Law

CONTENT

  • In-depth financial analyses of companies’ financial statements to create relevant decision support for assessing a company’s performance and identifying risks
  • Based on practical cases where we discuss the connection between the company’s financing, its growth ambitions and expectations for operating profitability is shown
  • Analysis of financial target models from different listed companies and review of factors that can be used to build an overall internal financial management model
  • Challenges and opportunities in the design and use of overall control systems as well as effects and potential challenges and risks with different governance models
  • How to support the realization of operational strategies
  • Discussion based on the participants’ experiences of governance in their own operations

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General conditions for applying to open-enrolment programmes

Once we receive your application, you will receive a confirmation by e-mail. The confirmation will contain all practical information. We will send you an invoice for the programme fee 14 days before it starts. Should there be too few applications, we reserve the right to cancel the programme. In such case, you will be notified by e-mail.

Cancellation

In case you wish to cancel your application a written cancellation needs to be sent via e-mail. This can be done without cost up to 28 days before programme start. Cancellation within 14-27 days before programme start will be charged with 50% of the programme fee. Cancelling less than 14 days means the entire fee will be charged. In case of cancellation, you are welcome to find a replacement to take your seat.