Dr Oscar Timmermans & Dr Furkan Cetin

In today’s competitive world, effective performance measurement and management are essential for business success. Firms must assess financial performance, navigate industry challenges, and identify opportunities for innovation.

This course introduces you to the critical role of management accounting in achieving performance targets and enhancing competitive advantage. You will explore how to analyse costs, evaluate decisions from a financial perspective, and understand resource allocation across the organisation. By leveraging cost analysis and performance evaluation, you’ll learn to strengthen a firm’s strategic position.

Focusing on two key areas, the course equips you to analyse and manage costs to improve strategic outcomes while also managing and motivating employees to ensure their efforts align with organisational goals.

Our approach is practical and highly applied. You will work with real-world cases and master both established and emerging tools in management accounting and financial control. By the end, you’ll be prepared to apply these insights to real business challenges.