Master in Auditing and Financial Management
Get trained in the latest trends and procedures in account auditing in order to become an expert auditor and develop your professional career in this field. Further your entry into the world of auditing by undertaking professional internships in the best firms.
Next edition
Classes start: 26 September, 2023
Program ends: 05 July, 2024 (To be confirmed)
Modality
On-campus
Language
Spanish
ECTS credits
60
Schedule
1st and 3rd terms: Monday to Friday from 6 pm to 9 pm. 2nd term: two afternoons a week (to be determined) from 6 pm to 9 pm, or Saturdays from 9 am to 2 pm.
Price
11500 €
The Official Master's Degree in Financial Management and Business Auditing at UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you a consolidated programme with complete and updated content, reviewed by the REA and today's major auditing firms.
We offer you internships so that you can enter a sector with a high demand for professionals. A great opportunity for your future.
Why choose this program
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International recognition
Study at a school accredited by EQUIS, an international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.
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Obtain the ROAC theory test
Completing the master recognizes the theoretical access test to the ROAC (Official Register of Account Auditors), essential to start practicing this profession. Launch your new career plan now.
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Undertake professional internships
You will have the opportunity to carry out your professional internships in top-level companies in the sector such as PWC, EY, KPMG, Mazars or Grant Thornton.
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We adapt to you
We offer the same program, content, and academic qualification, in two different modalities, in-person and online, to adapt to your personal and professional situation.
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Learn from professionals in the sector
The Master has an academic management and a first-rate teaching team made up of managers and partners in the Big4 and by academics from the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University.
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Rigorous and complete content
Reviewed by both the Registry of Auditing Economists (REA) and by the current large audit firms.
Who is it for?
The Master in Auditing and Financial Management is aimed both at young graduates in the field of Business Administration, Economics, Accounting and Finance, or Management, as well as graduated professionals from the sector who are interested in focusing their professional career in the field of auditing.
Accreditations
UPF Barcelona School of Management is the management school of Pompeu Fabra University, the 1st Ibero-American university and the 16th placed university in the world, among those under 50 years of age, according to the Times Higher Education ranking.
UPF Barcelona School of Management has EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools globally, and places itself among the top business schools in the world.
The Master in Auditing and Financial Management is an official master's degree and has the academic recognition of the Ministry of Education of the Government of Spain. This accreditation certifies all the official university master's degrees that we teach and recognizes the quality of our educational model in accordance with the criteria of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
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Curriculum
The Master in Auditing and Financial Management is structured in 6 subjects, made up of compulsory subjects that are developed simultaneously throughout the course.
The master's degree is completed with the preparation of the Master's Final Project, which is carried out during the course at the same time as the lesson activity.
Audit
Regulatory frameworks for financial information applicable in Spain
Other accounting matters
Legal matters
Information technology and computer systems
Other subjects
Master's Final Project
Complementary activities
The Master in Auditing and Financial Management also includes the possibility of participating in practical activities and activities for personal and professional growth such as:
- theoretical test ROAC: The Master will allow you to be recognized as having completed the theoretical test of access to the Official Register of Accounts Auditors (ROAC), considered the gateway to the exercise of this profession.
- UPF-BSM Inside: is a group of interdisciplinary subjects (applied data, communication, creativity, innovation and project management, sustainability and leadership among others) that, if you take this program, you can access at no additional cost. They are 100% online and you can take them throughout the academic year at your own pace, as they have been designed as self-study subjects.
- International mobility: The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you the possibility of expanding your training and international vision through the International Mobility Programme. Extend your studies extracurricularly, during the academic year following the completion of your Master's, at a top-level institution. Limited places.
Qualification obtained
Once students have completed the course they will obtain the Màster Universitari en Gestió Financera i Auditoria de l'Empresa - Máster Universitario en Gestión Financiera y Auditoría de la Empresa official Master's Degree, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
Issuance of official Master's Degrees: The amount stipulated in the DOGC (Official Gazette of the Government of Catalonia) must be paid for the rights to issue the degree. This rate varies annually and the rate in force at the time of application for the degree will be applied
Faculty
The teaching team brings a double focus to the program: on the one hand, academics from the prestigious department of Economics and Business of Pompeu Fabra University, and on the other, managers and partners of the Big Four, as well as recognized active professionals from leading companies, who contribute their experience on how to apply knowledge to the daily reality of today's companies.
Academic directors
Jordi Perramon Costa
Associate Professor UPF-BSM
Vice Dean for Research
Faculty
Fàtima Vidal Ayuso
Teaching Assistant UPF-BSM
Ana Maria Freire Veiga
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Vicedean for Social Impact and Academic Innovation
Llorenç Bagur Femenías
Associate Professor UPF-BSM
Dean
Ramon Bastida Vialcanet
Associate Professor UPF-BSM
Josep Lluis Boned Torres
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Oscar Elvira Benito
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Program Academic Director
Carlos Gómez Ligüerre
Associate Professor UPF
Ana Belén Macho Pérez
Associate Professor UPF
Jordi Perramon Costa
Associate Professor UPF-BSM
Vice Dean for Research
Francisco Andrés Valle Muñoz
Associate Professor UPF
Methodology
The program has a very practical and professional approach that combines theory and practice with a very participatory methodology. Active interaction and intervention by the students is added to the presentation of theoretical concepts by the teachers.
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Connected to the professional world
Throughout the course, real and current practical cases will be discussed and presented which will allow you to apply the concepts learned and thus face the situations that you will encounter in your professional activity.
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Team building
Group work will allow you to share views, knowledge and opinions with colleagues from diverse backgrounds, enriching your academic experience and strengthening your networking.
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Develop your project
We will assign you a tutor according to the characteristics of your project that will help you develop skills and abilities such as the capacity to plan a process, solve problems, analyse and interpret results, or defend proposals through efficient communication, among others.
Evaluation
The evaluation of the program is continuous and will be carried out based on:
- Practical cases, exercises and work oriented to business reality
- Tests of the different subjects
- Class participation and presentations
- Class attendance (minimum 80%)
- Master's Final Project
The evaluation activities will be carried out individually and also in a group, promoting teamwork.
Tools
Project-oriented learning and the combination of lectures and active methodologies such as case studies, flipped learning, solving real problems and professional simulations allow the student to connect theory and practice, acquire advanced skills and achieve learning which is transferable to work.
You will have:
- Master's Final Project (TFM) or Postgrad Final Project (TFP)
- A personal mentor to monitor your final project (TFM or TFP)
- Digital resources to achieve transversal skills
- Interdisciplinary activities and workshops
Professional Future
The program is aimed at young professionals who want to enter the account auditing sector, as well as young professionals who want to grow within this industry and face new professional challenges.
Student profile
In each course, the master brings together young professionals from the fields of Accounting and Finance, Economics or Business Administration or Management.
A heterogeneous class group made up of both national and international students (Latin America, Asia, among others) who share a common goal: quality training and academic experience that prepares them for their professional future.
Career opportunities
We train you to guide your professional career towards the Auditing sector, both in the Big4 and in other recognized companies.
Students, once the program is completed, can also focus their professional career towards the accounting and finance department of any company or institution.
The Master offers extracurricular internships in leading companies in the sector, which will boost your opportunities to start your professional future.
- External auditing
- Internal auditing
- Economic-financial management of companies
- Financial controllers
- Financial statement analysts
- Accounting experts
- Accounting and financial consulting
Admission and enrolment
Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.
Who can apply?
University graduates or higher graduates in the field of Economics, Business Administration, Accounting and Finance or Business Management/Management.
Students with a Diploma in Business Administration and graduates of other disciplines not related to Business Sciences must have at least three years of professional experience in the field of finance.
Those participants who do not have Spanish as one of their mother tongues or who did not have it as a teaching language in their training studies, must prove that they have at least a B2 level of Spanish (Common European Framework of Reference), as well as fluently take part in a personal interview with the academic director, if necessary.
How to apply?
To apply for admission to this program, students must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Contract once they start the application for admission through its form.
Application for admission
Complete your application within the next admission rounds:
| Round | Application deadline | Admission resolution |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 18/07/2023 | 27/07/2023 |
| 15 | 01/09/2023 | 14/09/2023 |
| 16 | 14/09/2023 | 28/09/2023 |
Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:
- Complete the online admission form.
- Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.
- Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
- Presentation letter or video
- CV
- Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)
- Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)
- Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport
- Passport-size photo (jpg format)
Additional documents may be requested in certain cases.
Applications are subject to the number of places available on the program.
Admission
- The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.
- You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.
Enrolment
- Resgistration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.
- Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your transcript of records.
- If you have a foreign degree, we will indicate you in the admission letter the specific instructions of the documents required
- Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place
- If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 1541.
- The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Grants, scholarships and financing
Scholarships
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Grants and discounts
Funding
Financing simulator
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator and receive an answer in less than 24 hours.
Collaborating entities
We collaborate with various entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links.
