Overview of the courses for the double Degree Business Economics Clermont Auvergne

Students from Université Clermont Auvergne

In the first year of the master programme, UCA Students will be registered in either the Master Mention Comptabilité Contrôle Audit (‘CCA’) or Master Mention Finance, major International Audit, Economics and Finance (‘Finance’) at their home institution. If they choose to enter the Double Degree Programme they will have to register for their second year at UCA in the Master Mention Finance, major International Audit, Economics and Finance.

Thus, in the first year UCA students will be dually registered in Master of Science in Business Economics, main subject Corporate Finance or main subject Accounting (UGent) and First Year Master of CCA or Master of Finance (UCA). In the second year, UCA students will be dually registered in Master of Science in Business Economics, main subject Corporate Finance or main subject Accounting (Ghent) and the Master of Finance, major International Audit, Economics and Finance (UCA).

SEM 1 will be organised in Clermont Ferrand

SEM 2 will be organised in Ghent

MAIN SUBJECT CORPORATE FINANCE

MAIN SUBJECT ACCOUNTING

+ 24 credits elective courses from list below:

• Cases in corporate finance, 3 crdt
• Advanced investment analysis, 4 crdt
• Financial modeling, 6 crdt
• Consolidation, 3 crdt
• International standards on auditing, 3 crdt
• Ecological economics, 6crdt
• International and European taxation, 3 crdt
• Economic Globalisation, 6 crdt
• Advanced corporate finance, 6 crdt (for students in the accounting option)
• Management control, 6 crdt (for students in the finance option)

SEM 3 will be organised in Ghent

MANDATORY GENERAL COURSE

• Strategic Management [EN], 6 ECTS

MAIN SUBJECT CORPORATE FINANCE

• Valuation and Financial Risk Management [EN], 6 ECTS
• Advanced Financial Statement Analysis [EN], 6 ECTS
• Research Methods in Corporate Finance [EN], 6 ECTS

MAIN SUBJECT ACCOUNTING

• Audit [EN], 6 ECTS
• Research Methods in Accounting [EN], 6 ECTS
• International Financial Reporting Standards [EN], 6 ECTS

+ 6 crdt ELECTIVE COURSE OF THE FIRST SEMESTER, to choose from mandatory courses of other option or:

Investment analysis, 6 crdt

SEM 4 will be organised in Clermont Ferrand

• Internship and Training or research project

Students from Ghent University

SEM 1 and 2 will be organised in Ghent

MANDATORY GENERAL COURSES (corporate finance/accountancy)

• Strategic Management [EN], 6 ECTS 

SPECIALISATION (ECTS UGent)

METHODS (6 ECTS UGent)

ELECTIVE COURSES (9 or 12 ECTS UGent):

It is possible to choose from the following range of electives: 

A/ Courses of the master programmes of the faculty of Economics and Business Administration 

• taking into account the required initial competences 
• without any content overlap with courses for which the student has earned credits in the bachelor programme or with courses included in the individual curriculum of the student in this double degree programme. 

B/ Courses of another Faculty of the Ghent University. 

• taking into account the required initial competences 
• without any content overlap with courses for which the student has earned credits in the bachelor programme or with courses included in the individual curriculum of the student in this double degree programme. 
• relevant for the double degree programme 

The elective courses have to be approved by the programme committee.

SEM 3 will be organised in Clermont Ferrand

UGent students have to come in UCA in semester 3 (September - December) after their master in Ghent and can do their research thesis in semester 4 (January - July) in Ghent or in Clermont Ferrand.

UGent students can choose between the Economics Finance track or the Accounting Audit track.

COMMON CORE

OPTION ECONOMICS FINANCE

OPTION ACCOUNTING AUDIT

SEM 4 can be attended physically in Clermont Ferrand or in Ghent, defined as UE 4 R 1c. For UGent students, it will consist of a master’s thesis, as defined in the UGent course specification F000878. There will be dual supervision and joint defense of the thesis.

COMMON CORE