Accounting and management control

HEC's team of Accounting and Management Control professors is dedicated to research and international cooperation. The
department's aim is to strike a balance between modern theories, practical application and innovative teaching methods.

Areas of research

The department focuses on the following main research areas:

- International accounting
- Goodwill and intangible assets
- Creative accounting
- Value creation
- Financial analysis
- Internal Auditing
- Performance measurement and management
- Management chart
- Departmental management control
- Theory of organizations (links between information and decision-making)
- Corporate Control

The department organizes a management control study and research group which brings together professors from various institutions (chairman: Yvon Pesqueux).

International Focus

For a pilot department to guarantee its long-term future, it must be totally dedicated to the internationalization of the School, above all through its courses. This is very much a priority in the Accounting-Management Control department: not only do the department's professors participate in the International Track program (a fully English-speaking second year program), but the department's two majors also admit around fifteen foreign students from the CEMS program every year.

Links between the department and other international universities continue to multiply. Cooperation agreements are being developed with departments at Illinois University and the NPS in California. Professors actively participate in training programs in Latin America (Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile), in conjunction with the ESADE in Barcelona, and a number of professors are taking part in a cooperation project to set up a management school in Cuba, the DEADE.

The teaching staff who are to participate in this program are currently being trained, together with Cuban company managers.

Unity and variety; open-mindedness and curiosity: these are the keywords that students will associate with the HEC Accounting and Management Control Department, judging from the success of the department's two majors.

Continuing education: Developing the company's human resources

The department is also very involved in training senior managers and business leaders at HEC MANAGEMENT and offers a number of programs (in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese) covering strategy implementation and performance management for both foreign and French companies.

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