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6 Our mission is to offer high quality education by selected faculty to experienced practitioners with a university degree to enhance their practical performance and career opportunities in finance and control. In doing so, we want to promote recognition of the Universiteit Maastricht Business School the Universiteit van Amsterdam Business School as the harbors of such education. We believe this can be accomplished by offering a program that is highly innovative, focused, international, integrative, coherent, intensive, and selective toward potential participants and potential faculty. To enable such education we continuously challenge our faculty and supporting staff to improve our curriculum, our business processes and our learning materials. The international EMFC-program tries to bridge the gap between practice and theory. This implies that teaching is problem-based, making use of cases taken from practice, and that students’ existing and potentially tacit knowledge is activated as much as possible by means of focused discussions with fellow students and faculty. Testing takes place by means of a variety of instruments, including: written exams, papers, oral exams, cases, and presentations. Group as well as individual performance is considered in grade determination. The program is organized around six two-week seminars covering a little over two years. The time between each seminar is used for readings and casework. To support these activities an electronic learning environment is created. All the teaching materials are made available on the Internet at the latest one month before the start of each seminar. These materials are also mailed on CD-rom or in hardcopy. Books and course manuals are always handed out or mailed by the Program Office. Students’ personal data and grades are also administered through a remotely accessible system. During the two-week seminars, learning is intensive. There will be not much time left for other activities but studying and related activities such as working on group-assignments. Lecturers A team of renowned lecturers guides the student through the latest developments in the various areas that are relevant to the controller, including: n Prof.dr. Piet Eichholtz, Finance n Prof.dr. Jim Hunton, Information Management n Prof. Luc Keuleneer, Treasury n Prof.dr. Ruth Ann McEwen, Financial Accounting n Prof.dr. Morris McInnes, Management Accounting n Dr. Arthur Pleijsier, Tax Law n Prof.dr. Walther Ploos van Amstel, Logistics n Prof.dr. Jan van de Poel, Finance n Dr. Peter Sampers RA, Financial Accounting n Prof.dr. Bob de Wit, Strategic Management n Prof.dr. Ken Merchant, Management Control n Prof.dr. Kid Schwarz, Corporate law Quality control The program is NVAO accredited and Universiteit Maastricht Business School is both EQUIS and AACSB accredited. Quality control takes place continuously and is effectuated by means of written
student evaluations, written lecturer evaluations, and oversight by a supervi- sory Board and a Committee of Recommendation consisting of financial executives. In addition, regular meetings with students, lecturers, and business representatives, both formal and informal, provide the program management with the necessary feedback. Finally, annual meetings with coordinators aimed at evaluating students, program contents, and program organization are held. Courses The number of days spent on each program component is as follows: Course # Days Management Control 6 Financial Accounting 9 Management Accounting 3 Accounting Information Systems 9 Information Management 6 Finance 6 Treasury 3 Corporate Law 3 Tax Law 3 Strategic Management 9 Logistics 6 Mergers & Acquisitions 3 Controllership 6 Total 72 Final thesis The program is concluded by a graduation workshop where students defend their final thesis. The goal of the final thesis is to stimulate students to integrate their knowledge as acquired in the program with their daily practice. A potential side effect is that students can add direct value to their "A great feature of the program has been learning in a collaborative manner with a diverse group of professionals. The sharing of knowledge and experiences of managers from many different businesses greatly contributed to the overall program benefits." Maarten Diks, Finance Manager PD Lighting Prof.dr. Jim Hunton, Bentley College, Waltham (USA) and Universiteit Maastricht, Information Management “It is imperative that auditor and controller education focus heavily on the complex interaction of people, processes and technologies when designing, evaluating and operating accounting internal control systems.” 7
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