Specific competencies

To analyse the external financial state of the company, the needs of its users, the regulations that apply to it as well as the analysis tools for decision-making.
To justify in the theoretical framework of the cost accounting and its main tools for the rationalisation of the cost and optimisation of the business’ profitability.
To evaluate a company’s situation from the analysis and interpretation of its financial status and its internal accounting.
To analyse, formulate and assess the corporate policies coherent with the company’s current requirements of responsibility and sustainability.
To formulate and implement corporate strategies through the analysis and interpretation of the economic, social and environmental fields.
To facilitate the definition and implementation of integrated systems of corporate management based on international regulations.
To analyse and identify the action principles and the master plans of Social Responsibility of the Company that allow to implement strategies directed to improve the confidence in the company, the relationship with its environment, its image and its social prestige.
To interpret the information about the economic, legal and institutional environment and the corporate fiscal framework.
To analyse the conjunction, criticise the measures of monetary and fiscal policy and make decisions considering the circumstances of the environment.
To optimise the fiscal aspects and analyse its consequences in the corporate investment decisions.
To detect the legal problems arising from current or future insolvency situations and to understand the pre-bankruptcy and/or bankruptcy solutions provided in the legal system.
To select the debt policy and dividends that best adapt to the specific circumstances of each company and to understand how the conflicts between creditors and stockholders affect the decision-making about its capital structure.
To distinguish the cost related to the different financial sources, the main ways to remunerate the stockholders and its impact on the company’s value.
To specify and make the payments to purveyors profitable and to know how to formulate and resolve the inventory management models.
To reinforce the importance of liquidity management as a key element in the usual development of a company’s financial activity and to be able of establishing an optimal level of the firm’s treasury.
To distinguish the basis that rule the bank negotiation and the company’s financial available means.
To plan, organise, control and assess the implementation of the different financing alternatives of the small and medium-sized enterprises.
To compare the basic valuation models of financial assets and their limitations, as well as specifying the relationship between financial markets and corporate finance.
To compare and prioritise the different methods for company, projects and brands valuation, as well as their limitations.
To interpret and judge the valuation of the company provided by an external expert.
To differentiate and categorise the different ways for companies merger/acquisition, their reasons and their involvement in the value creation.
To develop a company’s defence mechanism in case of a hostile takeover bid.
To distinguish the national and international financial environment and specify the techniques, methods and instruments related to the analysis and financial risks management in a globalised economic context.
To understand and evaluate the usefulness and importance of incorporating the risks management to the development of the corporate activity and be able of evaluating the economic and financial consequences of the decisions that have been made.
To adapt solutions to the corporate finance problems through specific software.
To interpret efficiently and effectively the information provided by the main financial databases.
To recognise the most appropriate leadership model for the personal, corporate and environmental profile.
To deeply analyse a corporate finance topic, through the review of the literature published about this topic or through the research and analysis of business cases.
To structure, appropriately develop and synthesise the most relevant conclusions on a specific topic related to corporate finance.
To incorporate to the professional reality the daily management of the private or public organisations the issues related to the set of subjects in the master’s degree.
To perform the specific tasks of a professional in corporate finance both in a private company and in a public body.

Specific Competencies of the Master’s Degree