Educational goals

The Degree Course in Administration and Governance aims to train various professional or managerial figures who have as a common denominator skills in the field of economic and financial analysis of business processes and functions; planning, control and detection of internal and external phenomena of company management, for the purpose of preparing external (financial statements) or internal (budgets and programs) financial reports and fiscal/tax returns; understanding of the company's governance mechanisms with reference to the various legislative, regulatory and statutory contexts. Although these figures may refer to distinct roles that involve the performance of employment or free-lance activities, including consultancy, all the figures that the course intends to train are characterized by knowledge related to economics, business administration and law; application and technical communication skills, aimed as a whole at the administration of economic organizations and legal knowledge in the areas of direct interest of companies and entities (private and public). Specifically, the degree course is aimed at those who wish to operate – at staff, middle management or manager/executive level – in the administration of companies; to those who wish to qualify as Statutory Auditors or to undertake a career in Independent Auditors and to those who wish to become Accounting Experts (section B of the Single Register of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts). Overall, therefore, the training objective is declined with reference to the following areas: • Business Area: the courses related to this area will allow students to acquire the fundamentals of management and entrepreneurship, the knowledge of the operational logic of consumer and production companies, profit and non-profit, the main levers of control of corporate performance, the basic knowledge of accounting surveys and the main theoretical and operational tools for the correct drafting and reading of financial statements and other forms of reporting financial and tax matters, the principles and tools of corporate investment and financing decisions (and financial policies and operational financial management) and the knowledge functional to the valuation of companies; • Economics: the courses related to this area will allow students to acquire the basic elements for understanding the functioning of the macroeconomic system and the ability to interpret and analyze the economic context and the rules that guide the choices of consumers and firms, through the analytical paradigm and the appropriate methodological tools in addition to the standard topics of modern industrial economics, with particular reference to oligopolistic market models and social welfare analysis; • Statistical-mathematical area: the courses related to this area will allow students to acquire basic skills in the mathematical field both from a theoretical point of view and in view of future applications in the economic-business field, the basic analytical tools for the formalization, evaluation and management of economic-financial problems, the fundamental tools of statistics useful for understanding and solving economic and business problems and typical of the social sciences; • legal area: the courses related to this area will allow students to acquire the necessary tools to understand the function of legal rules in the production and circulation of wealth and to offer the necessary knowledge to make decisions in the economic context with full awareness of their legal implications; provides an organic framework of company law and the skills necessary to understand the legal problems related to the establishment, financing, organization and management of a company and to frame them according to Italian law; students will acquire the knowledge needed to grasp the multiple reciprocal interactions that characterize regulatory processes and economic decisions, both at an institutional and functional level. The training course is divided into six semesters in which in-depth knowledge of business economics disciplines is provided with particular reference to issues related to the administration and governance of the company, knowledge in relation to basic economic-political disciplines, basic and applied mathematical-statistical tools, legal principles and institutions with particular reference to private, commercial and tax legislation, as well as knowledge of English at an intermediate level and computer skills for the purpose of analyzing qualitative and quantitative data. In order to ensure a solid multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological background, the first three semesters are characterized by courses related to business economics and business management, macro and microeconomics, private and corporate law and mathematical and statistical tools. These courses are for the most part also common to the other three-year degree courses offered by the Department. In the fourth, fifth and sixth semesters, courses are specifically aimed at developing knowledge of the main forms of financial reporting, company valuation and planning and control processes; the operating logic of the banking company; the fundamentals of corporate finance; the legal systems in the field of taxation and constitutionality. At the end of the course, there will be an internship and a final exam.

Career opportunities

Accountant Administration, control and/or finance function of any type of company, including banking, insurance or public sector. Position of accountant in professional firms of chartered accountants, accounting experts, statutory auditors or other professionals. Chartered Accountant Freelance activity as an individual or within professional firms of chartered accountants and accounting experts, but also legal or notarial experts, or consulting at business consulting or auditing firms. Administration, control and/or finance function of any type of company, including banking, insurance or public sector. Statutory Auditor Freelance activity as an individual or within firms, including law or notary, or consulting with auditing firms. Finance and Control Technician Finance and Control of SMEs and Large Enterprises; in Corporate Compliance Functions; in the field of financial advice for individuals, companies and entities; working at financial intermediaries.

Admission requirements

To be admitted to the degree course, the student must be in possession of an upper secondary school diploma or other qualification obtained abroad, recognized as suitable by the competent offices of the University. Furthermore, in order to enrol in the degree course, the student must possess or acquire an adequate initial preparation, and in particular the following knowledge and skills: basic analytical and mathematical skills (logical reasoning, knowledge of basic mathematical concepts in high school), comprehension of the text and basic knowledge of the English language. The methods for verifying the initial preparation and the recovery of any additional educational obligations provided for in cases where the verification is not positive are governed by the Didactic Regulations of the degree course.