2023-2024 / FINA0074-1

Management control and sustainable performance

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in management (60 ECTS)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Anne Chanteux

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

  • Roles of management control and links with accounting and information systems
  • Relations between strategy and management control
  • Financial management control
  • Performance management and measurement
  • Follow-up and measurement of sustainable performance

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of this course, students should be able to :

  • understand importance of management control and its evolution
  • eplain and use principles of financial management control
  • work out and analyse management scorecards and Balanced Scorecards
  • understand evolution of management control and namely the growing influence of global and sustainable  performance measurement
These specific objectives namely complete the following general ILO's :



  • To strengthen knowledge and understanding of main management disciplines and its legal, policy and social context
  • To  specialize in management control and performance management
  • To understand, in management situations, the transversal tools of quantitative reasoning and information systems
  • To build and propose viable solutions to management problems
  • To work in team
  • To develop a critical sense
  • To develop a transversal and global vision
  • Faced with a management problem, to suggest sustainable solutions

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Basics in strategy

Basics of financial accounting

Marketing

Human resources management

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Theoretical concepts, tools and methods are  illustrated by concrete example

Furthermore some sessions are organized in the form of reverse classes with wooclap tests.

Moreover exercises based on actual cases and articles of reviews are proposed to students during specific classes.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face

Recommended or required readings

powerpoint slides, readings, case studies and exercises avaliable on Lol@

Exam(s) in session

January exam session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )

May-June exam session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )

August-September exam session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )

Continuous assessment


Additional information:

1st session : 2 parts :

Continuous assessment
individual written exam 

2nd session : Individual written exam

For the second session, the points of continuous assessment are not taken into account.  The counters are therefore reset to zero.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

CHANTEUX Anne Lecturer UER Finance, Comptabilité et Droit HEC-Ecole de gestion de l'ULg Rue Louvrex, 14 4000 Liège Bât. N1 Tél: +32 4 2327261 Email: Anne.Chanteux@uliege.be

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