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Accounting, Management Control & Economics
The Department of Accounting, Management Control and Economics contributes to the development and elaboration of new practices for accounting and management control professionals to support organizations and be useful to the economy and society. The Department's goal is to generate knowledge through interdisciplinary, original and high quality scientific researc that enables responses to the organizational, economic, technological, environmental and social challenges of today's world.
Broad expertise in a variety of accounting areas
The department's professors have extensive interdisciplinary expertise in accounting, management control, and economics, with specializations in Accounting Data Analytics and Social and Environmental Accounting.
As such, they are fully aligned with the school's strategic plan, ECOS 2025 by focusing on the cross-fertilization of skills and contributing to the virtuous transformation of individuals, organizations and society.
The expertise of the department's professors is the subject of regular publications in the best peer-reviewed academic journals, both national and international, press articles aimed at professionals and the general public, books or book chapters, as well as pedagogical case studies. Several of these works are regularly taken up by regional, national and international media.
In addition, and with the aim of disseminating research and knowledge production, the Department regularly organizes research seminars where internationally renowned professor-researchers are invited to present their latest academic work.
Professors in the Department of Accounting, Management Control and Economics are interested in collecting and processing information that is closely or remotely related to the activities of companies, especially from an accounting and financial point of view. They use and organize this information in databases with the help of special software in order to analyze it and draw conclusions that can be used for decision-making. This information and data is permanently stored and regularly updated. The analysis of accounting data remains indispensable both for the management and for the various departments of a company, which rely on this work in order to make optimal decisions.
- Optimizing processes
- Making data reliable and secure
Professors in the Department of Accounting, Controlling, and Economics study a variety of issues related to how companies engage in sustainable development initiatives, how they implement and manage them, and how they report on them. They also examine the impact of these initiatives on the company's stakeholders. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of sustainable development issues in accounting and controlling among our students, the academic community and society at large.
- Multi-capital accounting
- Sustainable Development Controlling
- CSR Governance
- Development and Transition Economics