MSc Management Control and Reporting at KEDGE Business School

The master's degree in management control, Management Control and Reporting, from KEDGE prepares students for a profession that has become central. At a time when companies must decide more and more quickly and communicate in a systematic and transparent manner, the management controller occupies a strategic role. The CSR orientation and teaching provided 50% by professionals characterize this program.

Performance is no longer solely financial. Today when we talk about global performance, triple bottom-line or performance in 3 P's (People, Planet, Profit), the only financial evaluation tools are no longer suitable.

New systems have been added to the traditional management control that KEDGE's master management control integrates, such as activity-based costing, activity-based management, target costing, strategic cost management or balanced scorecard. Some large companies create departments dedicated to CSR, often entrusted to management control for its cross-functional knowledge of the activity and its ability to produce strategic information.

In this environment where change is a necessity, the role of the management controller is essential. He is the architect of a performance evaluation and management system whose aim is to produce enlightening and reliable indicators to facilitate the implementation of strategies and prepare for change.

THE STRONG POINTS

Acquisition of decision-making and technical skills

Because the controller is at the interface between general management and operational directorates, the program focuses on the acquisition of decision-making and technical skills based on best practices, at the service of performance management.

A program co-constructed with the DFCG

- The KEDGE master's in management control is designed and produced in partnership with the Association of Financial Directors and Management Control (DFCG).
- The DFCG guarantees the best practices of companies.
- The DFCG offers internship or job offers, and integrates students into their events.

Academic and professional lessons

- Teaching is based on a balance between methodological and practical knowledge by combining academic courses and field approaches.
- 50% of the courses are given by professionals.

A full english program

All courses are taught in English.

A CSR orientation

The courses are systematically linked to CSR.

THE SKILLS DEVELOPED

Understand, master and translate a company's strategy into action plans

- To be able to communicate global objectives of the company in local objectives for the various entities.
- Communicate the strategy via tools, such as budgets or dashboards.

Coordinate a budget process in a complex organization

- Communicate the budget to the operational departments
- Check the achievement of objectives and identify corrective actions in the event of non-achievement
- Coordinate the exchanges related to the budget of the general direction towards the operational directions and vice versa.

Implement an internal reporting system

Deploy reports by combining financial and non-financial perspective.

Understand and master new strategic challenges for companies through strategic cost management

Optimization of the cost / value pair for an "intelligent" reduction of costs.

Participate in the development of an agile organization

To allow the company to gain agility and to be even more attentive to its market, its customers, regulations, etc.:
- Reactively produce strategic information intended for general management and operational staff to facilitate their decision-making.
- Understand the organizational challenges through the processes and the change management.
 

Understand and master the vocation of the management controller

- Produce information for decision making.
- Be proactive in steering and managing performance.

Master the dynamics of ERP as a decision support tool

- Produce information, process and analyze it
- Then trigger the corrective actions necessary to readjust local decisions towards the common objective of the company