The Graduate degree holder can perform the following professional roles and functions in the indicated occupational fields.
Chartered accountant
Professional registered in section A of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Accounting Experts (the title can be acquired after obtaining the degree and subsequently completing the traineeship and passing the state exam required by law).
Functions:
- He/She provides advanced consultancy in the field of enterprise information systems design;
- He/She keeps company accounts on behalf of private clients;
- He/She carries out economic and financial evaluations in connection with extraordinary operations of varying complexity;
- He/she carries out checks on accounts and balance sheets;
- of private and public companies, as well as company performance, as a member of the board of auditors;
- He/She provides tax advice to entities, companies and individuals, as well as commercial and insolvency advice to companies and entities;
- He/She may be an official receiver and liquidator;
- He/She provides comprehensive financial advice to businesses and entrepreneurs.
Employment opportunities: professional firms providing tax, economic, accounting, commercial and insolvency advice to entities, companies and individuals.
Business and general consultant and corporate control professional
Functions:
- on the basis of functions and competences shared with the Chartered Accountant, he/she provides economic, financial and tax advice on national and international transactions (mergers, acquisitions, disposals and other transactions relating to international contracts; design of advanced control models and tools suitable for companies operating on a global scale);
- He/She carries out economic and financial assessments in extraordinary transactions;
- He/She carries out economic and financial analyses to support transfer pricing choices;
- He/She deals with the verification of compliance (which also includes the verification of quality control procedures);
- He/She may have an international consulting orientation when carrying out activities in support of internationally
- operating clients and/or in international consulting firms;
- He/She usually works in multifunctionalteams together with other professionals.
Employment opportunities:
- national and international audit firms;
- strategic and management consulting companies;
- consultancies specialising in tax and legal services, transaction services, business information systems consulting.
Framework/Department Head administration, finance and control of medium-sized and large companies
(as well as public and non-profit organisations –he/she can be recruited after a career path within the department or after professional experience).
Functions:
- He/She designs and operates economic and financial measurement systems. In particular, they are able to draw up the chart of accounts for general accounting, to make the surveys and to draw up the balance sheet;
- He/She can set up the cost accounting system and calculate the product cost;
- He/She can determine the taxable income of the enterprise;
- He/She plans, organises and manages internal auditing processes: checks the effectiveness of internal administrative procedures, identifying areas of risk;
- He/She formulates protocols of conduct and company directives;
- He/She verifies the correct application of the directives, advising on their implementation;
- He/She controls procedures related to internal self-regulation;
- He/She assesses the compliance of procedures and formulates corrective actions if necessary;
- He/She searches for more advantageous sources of financing and offers support for investment choices.
Employment opportunities:
- medium and large-sized enterprises;
- public and non-profit bodies;
- credit and financial institutions.