The course is divided into two modules
MODULE I – (6 CFU)
The 6 CFU module aims to provide a systematic picture of the financial function and financial structure, analysis of financing and investment decisions, analysis of the "risk and debt capital structure", risk-return analysis, analysis of business development needs, the analysis of the value of investments and the strategic motivations of recourse to risk capital and debt capital, the dividend policy. It also has the purpose of dealing with techniques for analyzing financial decisions and collecting information useful for analyzing, reading, understanding the elements collected and assessing the state of the company in the individual profiles (solidity, liquidity, profitability, development and crisis) in overall financial economic terms.
Module contents
-The fundamentals of Corporate Finance
-The objectives of Corporate Finance
-Conflict management
-Risk and return models
-The investment decision and the interdependence between projects
-The structure of capital and the optimal combination of sources
-The dividend policy, the analysis of liquidity to be repaid to shareholders and the construction of cash flows
-Theory and practice of evaluation

MODULE II – (3 CFU)
The 3 CFU module aims to deepen the acquisition processes in the strategic and operational aspects, the growth aspects, the typical advantages of acquisitions, the growth and critical aspects of the process, the management of the negotiation, the transition from value to price , identifying the objectives of sellers and buyers, economic and financial profiles, evaluation of synergies, price analysis, due diligence, restructuring of companies in crisis.
Module contents
-Growth and value creation through acquisition processes: strategic planning and operational management
-External growth as a tool for growth
-The structure of the acquisition process: analysis and strategic assessment
-Analysis of synergies and transition from value to price
-The post acquisition integration phase