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Online Postgraduate Course in Accounting Management and Administrative Control
Online Postgraduate Course in Accounting Management and Administrative Control
Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to lead the accounting department of any company or institution. A specialized program to focus your professional career in the field of administrative control.
The Online Postgraduate Course in Accounting Management and Administrative Control will teach you to analyse the economic and financial status of a company in an analytical and strategic way.
Through exercises, mostly practical, you will approach all the contents from a management perspective. You will become an accounting professional capable of directing an accounting department in all its aspects, as well as performing controlling and internal audit functions.
At the end of the course, you will know how to diagnose the economic and financial situation and evolution of any company, you will master the cost calculation systems and the most current analytical accounting systems, you will prepare budgets by implementing budget control systems and analysing deviations, and you will know how to design an administrative control system from a managerial perspective.
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Why choose this program
A postgraduate course that adapts to you
Wherever you are, you can now take the same program, content, and get the same academic qualification that we offer in face-to-face and blended online mode. As such, you will be able to develop your professional career by studying remotely and choosing your schedules to adapt the postgraduate to your personal and professional situation.
Learn from a prestigious teaching team
You will train with professors from the UPF Economics and Business area and also with recognized experts who will contribute their knowledge and experience to apply theory to practice.
Expand your training
If at the end of the postgraduate course you want to continue expanding your training, you will be able to take the Master in Accounting and Financial Management at UPF-BSM, with the credits obtained being recognized.
Who is it for?
The program is aimed at university graduates, preferably in the field of business administration and management, economics, accounting, and finance who want to specialize in the sector and professionals with accounting experience and knowledge who want or need to update it, expand upon it, or understand it in depth.
The postgraduate program develops the content from a grassroots level and with a general approach, which is why it is also aimed at professionals from other disciplines who prove prior knowledge in the field, either with academic training or previous work experience.
Curriculum
The Online Postgraduate Course in Accounting Management and Administrative Control is made up of 3 main subjects and is complemented by the Postgraduate Final Project that will encompass the content acquired throughout the program.
Qualification obtained
Once you have passed the program, you will be awarded the degree of Curso de Postgrado en Dirección Contable y Control de Gestión, issued by Pompeu Fabra University.
Faculty
The teaching team for the Online Postgraduate Course in Accounting Management and Administrative Control is made up of professors from the UPF Economics and Business area and by professionals from the sector who guarantee the UPF-BSM's teaching rigour and its professional character.
Academic directors
Associate Professor UPF
Faculty
Vice Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer at UPF Barcelona School of Management
Associate Professor BSM
Associate Professor UPF
Senior Lecturer BSM
Methodology
At UPF Barcelona School of Management we are committed to a flexible and dynamic online model, which aims to place the participant at the centre of the process so that they are the owner of their learning process.
To facilitate day-to-day management and the achievement of your academic goals, the program is structured into subjects, with which you will acquire knowledge, and instrumental and aptitude skills.
All this, while having 24/7 access to the virtual environment so that you can organize your study without schedules and at your own pace. In this way, you can combine it with your work and personal life, making the most of the time you have for it.
Interactive teaching materials
Various materials and formats will make your experience more motivating: videos, case studies, content maps, and downloadable resources. Designed and updated periodically by professionals and experts in the field, they put at your disposal the latest knowledge, skills, and tools to take your career to the next level.
Active and collaborative learning
Participation and discussion with your colleagues and teachers are essential for the collaborative learning process. We will provide you with various tools such as the Discussion Forum, where you can propose new topics for debate, comment on and answer questions presented by the teacher or give feedback on interesting comments.
Streaming sessions with experts
Through videoconference sessions with the expert teacher or special guests, you will be able to ask questions, discuss your learning, and connect in real time as if you were all in the same place. To ensure the flexibility of the training, we record the sessions so that you can refer to them if you have not been able to connect.
Personalized support
You will have the support of the expert tutor, who will guide you through each didactic unit; the help of the co-ordinator and the program manager in the delivery of activities, qualifications, management of procedures, or access to services, and the guidance of the career advisor in the improvement of your personal brand and your search for professional opportunities.
Tools
The learning process is characterized by its flexibility, since, in the virtual learning environment, the structure of the school calendar and the diversity of multimedia resources which are made available to the student allows them to acquire knowledge in a self-regulated manner.
The support of the teaching staff and interaction with classmates is carried out by making use of a wide variety of communication channels that facilitate proximity and didactic dialogue.
Professional Future
The program is aimed at all those professionals who want to grow and develop in an accounting department, whether they are young graduates starting their careers, or qualified professionals who want to take on new challenges and responsibilities in this area of administrative control, of vital importance for any company.
Student profile
You will share a virtual classroom with active professionals with a common background (from the fields of Accounting and Finance, Economics, or Business Administration), from different national and international origins, who are looking for flexible quality training that allows them to combine their work and personal life with academic experience.
Career opportunities
The postgraduate studies all the techniques that a controller requires in order to create the foundations that allow them to professionally face a workplace like this.
- Controller
- Head of Planning and control
- Internal Auditor
- Risk analyst
- Director of accounting/finance department
- Accounting/finance department staff
Admission and enrolment
Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.
Who can apply?
University graduates can apply.
Other candidates without the required university degree may take part in the selection process by virtue of their academic or professional merits and the place of work they occupy.
How to apply?
To apply for admission to this program, students must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Contract once they start the application for admission through the following form.
Application for admission
Complete your application within the next admission rounds:
| Round | Application deadline | Admission resolution |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11/11/2020 | 26/11/2020 |
| 2 | 03/12/2020 | 18/12/2020 |
| 3 | 17/12/2020 | 31/12/2020 |
| 4 | 12/01/2021 | 28/01/2021 |
| 5 | 02/02/2021 | 17/02/2021 |
| 6 | 23/02/2021 | 10/03/2021 |
| 7 | 16/03/2021 | 31/03/2021 |
| 8 | 08/04/2021 | 23/04/2021 |
| 9 | 27/04/2021 | 12/05/2021 |
| 10 | 13/05/2021 | 28/05/2021 |
| 11 | 27/05/2021 | 11/06/2021 |
| 12 | 08/06/2021 | 23/06/2021 |
| 13 | 22/06/2021 | 07/07/2021 |
| 14 | 06/07/2021 | 21/07/2021 |
| 15 | 20/07/2021 | 30/07/2021 |
| 16 | 02/09/2021 | 17/09/2021 |
| 17 | 16/09/2021 | 01/10/2021 |
| 18 | 05/10/2021 | 20/10/2021 |
| 19 | 21/10/2021 | 05/11/2021 |
Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:
- Complete the online admission form.
- Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.
- Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
- Presentation letter or video
- CV
- Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)
- Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)
- Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport
- Passport-size photo (jpg format)
Additional documents may be requested in certain cases.
Application rounds are subject to the number of places available on the program.
Admission
- The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.
- You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.
Enrolment
- Registration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.
- Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.
- If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.
- Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place
- If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 3130.
- The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Grants, scholarships and financing
Scholarships
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either through scholarships which reward your talent, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education, or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Grants and discounts
Funding
Financing simulator
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator and receive an answer in less than 24 hours.
Collaborating entities
In addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management collaborates with various banks and financial entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links (in Spanish).
Note, however, that in order to benefit from these special conditions you must have a NIE if you are not a European Citizen. Therefore, UPF Barcelona School of Management strongly recommends international students to seek first for students loans at bank entities of their country of origin, or to search for funding opportunities through international entities.
The Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of Catalonia (AGAUR, in Spanish) also offers loans to university students with legal residence in Catalonia through the PREPOST program.
Language: Spanish
Price: 2650€