2018-2019 / FINA0086-1

Depth diagnostics of business: Legal and financial aspects

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in management (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in business engineering (120 ECTS)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Danielle Sougné

Coordinator

Danielle Sougné

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course intends


  • to propose a synthesis, at the end of the learning process ot the student specialized in Financlal Analysis & Audit, of the different techniques and tools used to realize a legal and financial business diagnosis
  • to illustrate how professionals from the consulting and banking industry use these techniques and tools in their daily activity.
The 10 sessions that are scheduled are structured around the Life Cycle of the firm and deal successively with the following themes :


  • the creation of the firm (business plan)
  • the emerging phase (individual support to emerging firms)
  • the growth phase (financing of the different steps of the growth)
  • the transmission phase (transmission and take-over of an existing firm)
  • the recovery or the exit phase (liquidation and recovery of the failing firm)

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Strategy : The course will allow students to establish a strategy in order to optimize the value chain of a company, an organization or a project. Implementation : The course will allow students to take charge of the everyday management of a company, an organization or a project Quality and Performance Control : The course will allow students to plan and implement the performance and quality control in a company, an organization or a project Communication : The course will allow students to communicate efficiently, internally and externally, about a company, organization or project Adaptability : The course will allow students to adapt their managerial practice to the needs of a fast-evolving world

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Advanced knowledge in accounting, financial statement analysis, corporate finance and financing decisions and business strategy

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Ex-caethedra sessions and interactive conferences presented by professionals from the bank and the consulting industry
Case studies
Prior and ex-post knowledge of the specific supports linked to each conference
An individual case study 

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Compulsory presence to the different conferences - Absence may lead to the exclusion out of the course

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

Individual defence of a real business diagnosis in a pitch format
Presentation of a professional PPT support and delivery of a detailed written report before the oral defence of the report

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

The practical aspects of the organisation are available and updated on the Intranet available for the students
The course start on Thursday, September 20.
Most of the course is taught in French

Contacts

Prof. Danielle SOUGNE (coordination) : danielle.sougne@uliege.be