The goal of the Master’s course in Financial Management and Accounting is to enable students completing the programme to understand and develop the content of a company’s finance and accounting systems in consideration of the necessary norms, directives and practices specific to the company and with regard to the demands placed on the company by the circumstances prevailing at that time and to reach the appropriate economic decisions. After gaining their Master’s degree, graduates, in the position of Head of Department or Chief Financial Officer or (in large companies) initially in the position of a member of the finance and accounting staff, should therefore be able to perform all kinds of specialised tasks in preparation for a decision to be taken independently, rationally and holistically or to reach this decision themselves at their own responsibility.

After gaining their Master’s degree, graduates should be able to:

• prepare for decisions on finance and accounting in both a national and international setting on the basis of profound specialist knowledge and successfully put them into practice
• recognise and take into account interaction between the overall economic conditions and the tasks of finance and accounting so that the right decision for the company, owners and/or investors can be made
• reach competent corporate decisions on the basis of the requirements of the national and international accounting standards, different legal systems and capital markets
• apply financial management models and corporate accounting instruments meaningfully