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| FINA0077-1 | Advanced Topics in Control Management
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Didier Van Caillie |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| All year long |
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Course contents :
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| "Advanced Topics in Management Control" is a course inserted in the Doctoral Program and is dedicated to students wishing to develop a doctoral research in the fields of management control, management accounting, information systems, internal audit, audit or strategy.
It stresses, in a scientific perspective, on the contingency theory and on how to design a management control system that deals with the permanent interaction between human behaviour, management system within an organization and the different traditional tools in MCS (scorecards, budgets, performance monitoring systems).
The theme which is particularly investigated this year is "Designing MCS in innovating environments : theory and practice". |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The specific ILOs that are accentuated by this course are linked, in addition to the global ILOs scheduled for the globlal doctoral programn, to the ability to prepare, to build and to write a scientific communication possibly accepted for a public presentation during an international scientific Congress in the fields of management control, management accounting, audit, control or strategy. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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- Management Accounting or Cost Accounting
- Management Control (Systems)
- Theory of Organizations
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The teaching activities are organised on an individual follow-up and include the following steps :
- Analysis of the recent scientific literature about the annual selected theme and synthesis in a "pro forma" state-of-the-art
- Formalisation and integration of a synthesis of the acquired knowledge into a "Mind Mapping" application
- Structure and preparation of an original scientific communication linked to the selected theme
- Writing and submission of this scientific communication to an international scientific congress
PRESENCE IS COMPULSORY to each session dedicated to the individual follow-up. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is starting on Friday, November, 21 at 14.00.
It takes place in Room 320, Building N1 (Rue Louvrex).
Students wishing to participate in the course must necessarily send an e-mail with their motivation to :
Prof. D. Van Caillie(D.VanCaillie@ulg.ac.be) |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Reference book :
Merchant & Van der Stede (2011) : Management Control Systems - Performance measurement, evaluation and incentives, 3rd Edition, FT Prentice Hall |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| - State-of-the-art about the selected theme : 30 points
- Synthesis based on a "Mind Map" configuration : 20 points
- Proposal of a communication : 40 points
- Decision of acceptance by an international Congress : 10 points |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| Individual follow-up of each student, based on regular meetings through a Skype session. |
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Contacts :
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| Professeur Didier Van Caillie
CEPE
Rue Louvrex, 14 - Bureau 102 - 4000 Liège
Mail : D.VanCaillie@ulg.ac.be |
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