What is Controlling and Finance at the FHV?
Successful in international financial management
Do you also experience it daily? The quantity of information vastly exceeds people's ability to process it. We are flooded by announcements, data and facts that we hear, evaluate, sort and may store. This is of fundamental importance for the survival of a company.
To go new ways and conquer unknown territory, companies need trackers and pilots. Students in the master's degree programme of Controlling & Finance learn how to select information professionally, work as scouts and trackers, and pilot a ship through dangerous waters. The degree programme gives them up-to-date knowledge and the instruments they need for the strategic operating control of a company from a profit and value point of view.
Do you have the courage to voice uncomfortable truths? Can you nonetheless build bridges and defuse conflicts? Do you have an affinity for the world of numbers and facts and can you separate the important from the unimportant in this flood of information? Then the master's degree programme in Controlling & Finance is the right qualification path for you.
Above all, you will learn interactively in small groups, in projects and seminar papers. As lecturers, you will have highly qualified academic specialists and experienced practitioners with comprehensive knowledge and many years of leadership experience on the international level.
Graduates of this degree programme work as controllers in a company. They show upper management the way, point out the decisions that were right or wrong and where work is being done efficiently or inefficiently. The spectrum of professional options stretches from controlling to cash management, from being head of the finance and accounting department to the assumption of corporate responsibility as a member of the board of directors or as a managing director.
The master's degree in Controlling & Finance is - along with the master's degree programmes in Business Process Engineering and International Marketing & Sales - one of three master's degree programmes in Business Administration at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences.
