Management Control, Accounting and Auditing

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Kim CEULEMANS
Head of Department

The Department of Management Control, Acconting and Auditing prepares students to meet the challenges faced by today’s businesses due to economic uncertainties, increasing competition, and evolving international accounting standards.

Learning Opportunities

Fundamental knowledge of accounting and controlling is invaluable for all business professionals. Thus, every TBS program –Bachelors, Masters, MBA programs and executive education – fosters critical learning and critical thinking regarding these particular fields of knowledge.

The Department of ManagementControl, Accounting and Auditing also offers advanced courses in accounting, controlling, auditing, and consulting for students who enroll in the following specialized options:

  • The Audit path, the Excellence path within the Master in Management program (in French)
  • MSc. Controlling and Risk Management, on Paris campus (in English/French and with work-study contract)
  • MSc Corporate Finance and Management Control on Barcelona Campus
  • The Specialized Master in Internal Audit and Management Control (ranked as the No.1 program in this field in France in the SMBG/ Best Masters 2018 ranking)

Students in our programs develop technical expertise in accounting, management control, and auditing. They also cultivate interpersonal skills and a critical eye that will help them to be proactive managers.

Teaching Staff

With an innovative pedagogical team, the students will learn how to interpret accounting information and to use new tools to manage organizations. The Audit Chair, in partnership with EY, KPMG, PwC, and Mazars, contributes to the thriving excellence of the auditing path. For the students of the management control path, the partnership KPMG « Scale-Up – managing the hypergrowth » is established in the same mindset.

Lecturers involved in research are part of the Accounting, Auditing & Control Research Lab. Their research often adopts approaches that integrate aspects of social sciences and humanities (such as ethnography, sociology, and psychology) in order to address human, organizational, and institutional issues influencing management practices and their dissemination. Research results are presented at international conferences and published in academic journals and books.

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