Program Overview

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Introduction to the Master's Degree in Accounting & Corporate Finance

The Master's Degree in Accounting & Corporate Finance is a one-year professional master's program entirely taught in Italian. The program prepares professionals capable of using the competencies and tools of economics and finance to develop technical and managerial skills and improve decision-making and corporate processes.

Educational Content

The course units of the professional Master in Accounting & Corporate Finance cover three thematic areas:

• Financial Statements Area: topics related to drafting and interpreting standard and consolidated financial statements, international accounting principles, and risk management.
• Performance Audit Area: topics such as corporate planning analysis, cost analysis, budgeting, transfer pricing, and performance analysis multidimensional systems.
• Corporate Finance Area: analyses topics such as capital budgeting, corporate evaluation, extraordinary growth finance, and topics related to big data and business analytics.

Course Target and Career Opportunities

The Master's Degree in Accounting & Corporate Finance is addressed to:

• People who already work in the administration, finance, and control field and want to update their knowledge.
• Newly graduates who wish to complement their Bachelor's Degree by acquiring advanced knowledge.
• Anyone without an accounting or finance background who wants to reposition themselves professionally and develop specific competencies. The Master trains the following professional figures: junior and senior controllers, administrative directors, corporate consultants, performance audit managers, and CFOs.

Course Program

The Master's Degree in Accounting & Corporate Finance provides training on:

• Accounting Course: a 16-hour course mandatory for anyone without a BA in the field of Economics or at least 2 years of work experience in the administrative/finance sector.
• Financial Statements: drafting logic, income statement, balance sheet, and financial statement analysis and interpretation techniques.
• Investment Analysis: main investment evaluation techniques.
• Fundamentals of Planning and Control: techniques to develop contribution margin analysis, product cost calculation, budget planning, and variance analysis implementation.
• International Accounting Principles: structure of accounting documents according to IFRS principles.
• Cost Analysis and Budgeting: techniques to develop contribution margin analysis, product cost calculation, budget planning, and variance analysis implementation.
• Consolidated Financial Statements: group governance and drafting and interpreting consolidated financial statements.
• Strategic Control: organizational structure, design principles, and human resource performance measuring system.
• Strategic Planning: industrial plan and business plan drafting techniques.
• Big Data and Business Analytics: using big data to collect useful information for supporting corporate decisions.
• Managing the Relationships with Banks and Corporate Rating Optimization: set of rules that regulate the credit business and techniques to assess and improve creditworthiness.
• Risk Management and Corporate Governance Systems: identification of corporate risks and their relation to performance evaluation.
• Multidimensional Performance Measurement and ESG Reporting Models: multidimensional systems for analyzing company performance and ESG reporting.
• Models and Tools for Control and Planning: operational techniques for implementing control and planning tools.
• Corporate Assessment and Extraordinary Finance: corporate assessment, acquisition, and merging operations.
• Cash Management: models and operating tools to create and manage effective cash flow planning systems.
• Listing on Regulated Markets and Private Equity: Venture Capitals, Private Equity, leverage buy-out, corporate listing, and debt offering.
• Corporate Taxation: tax management and accounting.
• Transfer Pricing: role of transfer pricing and calculation techniques.

IT Lab Activities

IT LAB activities include lessons and practice on using data structuring, analysis, and reporting software to support corporate decision-making processes. The ACF Master's Degree organizes three workshops:

• A half-day advanced Excel laboratory.
• A half-day laboratory with Tableau.
• A full-day laboratory "Business Game": a training tool used in the managerial field to allow students to experience firsthand the economic and financial implications of business choices.

Teaching Staff

The teaching staff includes:

• Giacomo Boesso, full professor of Business Administration.
• Fabio Buttignon, full professor of Corporate Finance.
• Diego Campagnolo, associate professor of Business Organization.
• Fabrizio Cerbioni, full professor of Business Administration.
• Marco Ciabattoni, chartered accountant and statutory auditor.
• Eugenio Comuzzi, full professor of Business Administration.
• Antonio Costantini, researcher of Business Administration.
• Francis De Zanche, partner of Adacta Advisory.
• Michele Fabrizi, associate professor of Corporate Finance.
• Marco Fasan, associate professor of Business Administration.
• Elena Gaiani, business consultant at Strategya.
• Paolo Gubitta, full professor of Business Organization.
• Tommaso Lazzarini, business consultant at Adacta Advisory.
• Giovanna Michelon, professor of Accounting.
• Giulia Milan, partner at Buttignon Zotti Milan & Co.
• Marco Minozzi, business consultant at Strategya.
• Francesco Naccarato, partner at 110 Advisory.
• Alessandra Nicastro, business consultant at Adacta Advisory.
• Antonio Parbonetti, full professor of Business Administration.
• Sonia Parolin, business consultant Adacta Advisory.
• Emilio Passetti, associate professor of Business Administration.
• Luisa Pastega, chartered accountant and business consultant.
• Michele Piazza, partner at Strategya.
• Gaetano Terrin, partner at Studio Terrin & Associati.
• Anna Trentin, Company Consultant for Adacta Advisor.
• Daniele Vanin, accountant and auditor, Consimp Partner.
• Matteo Zingales, chartered accountant and statutory auditor.

General Ranking of Merit

The general ranking of merit for the academic year 2025/26 will be published on the Italian page of this Master according to the timing provided in the Call.

Single Course

The Master's Degree in Accounting & Corporate Finance offers various single courses, including:

• Anti-Laundering and Fraud Prevention: defining the importance of fraud prevention activities and analyzing tools to understand and prevent corporate fraud.
• Big Data and Business Analytics: using large volumes of data to collect useful information and support corporate decisions.
• Consolidated Financial Statements: drafting and interpreting consolidated financial statements.
• Strategic Control: analyzing the characteristics of the organizational structure and designing a human resource performance measuring system.
• Corporate Taxation: tax management and accounting.
• Fundamentals of Control, Cost Analysis, and Budgeting: analyzing concepts and basic programming and control techniques.
• Cash Management: creating and managing effective cash flow planning systems.
• Financial Statements: drafting and interpreting financial statements.
• Managing the Relationships with Banks and Corporate Rating Optimization: analyzing the set of rules that regulate the credit business.
• Strategic Planning: identifying the requirements and characteristics of the industrial plan.
• International Accounting Principles and Intangible Asset Assessment: analyzing the structure of accounting documents drafted according to international accounting principles.
• Planning and Control - Advanced: covering different management control and reporting aspects.
• Listing on Regulated Markets and Private Equity: covering Venture Capital and Private Equity topics.
• Risk Management and Corporate Governance Systems: analyzing the identification and management of corporate risks.
• Transfer Pricing: analyzing the role of transfer pricing and calculation techniques.
• Corporate Assessment and Extraordinary Finance for Growth: introducing the main corporate assessment models and analyzing acquisitions and mergers.
• Multidimensional Performance Measurement Models and ESG Reporting: addressing the topic of multidimensional systems for analyzing corporate performance and ESG reporting.

Information

• Thematic area: Finance, Law, and International Relations.
• End of classes: 30/09/2026.
• Mandatory attendance: 70%.
• Minimum available spots: 13.
• Maximum available spots: 45.
• First installment: 3,522.50.
• Second installment: 2,000.00.

FAQ

• What are the requirements to access the Master's Degree in Accounting & Corporate Finance?: The ACF Master is a Level 1 course, therefore it can be accessed with a Bachelor's Degree in any major.
• I'm interested in applying for this Master's Degree, but I don't have a degree in economics. Will this affect me in the selection process?: Not at all. Students from any majors can enroll in this Master's Degree.
• How are the lessons managed and what is the minimum mandatory attendance percentage?: Lessons are provided in dual mode (in-person and on the Zoom platform) and a 70% attendance is mandatory.
• Will there be a traineeship?: The traineeship is not mandatory to obtain the diploma; however, within the Master's course, it is possible to complete an optional traineeship aimed at drafting the final project work.
• How and when can I pre-register?: You need to wait for the publication of the admission notice in June and follow all the instructions to pre-register for the course.

Program Details

• Classes start: 12/11/2025.
• Duration: One year.
• Venue: Padua.
• Language: Italian.
• ECTS: 60.
• Teaching method: Dual-mode.
• Total enrollment fee: 5,522.50.
• Pre-enrollment deadline: 07/10/2025.