Intensive Program

Advanced Management Control

Creating Value in an ESG Context

Companies today face the challenge of balancing short-term financial objectives with long-term sustainability. The current climate requires companies to optimize their processes in order to maintain and improve their competitiveness in the market. It is therefore essential to integrate ESG metrics into the financial decision-making process and to consider the impact of these metrics on the company's financial performance over time.

The Advanced Management Control program is designed for managers who want to create long-term value for their companies.

Date

September 29 and 30 + October 1, 6, 7 and 8, 2025

Duration

6 days

Investment

3.300€
4.320€ (advanced certificate) 

Format

Face-to-face
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Language

Portuguese

Location

Carcavelos, Portugal

Reasons for choosing this program

FOR YOU

  • Improve decision-making skills by optimizing operational processes Master effective communication with stakeholders
  • Stand out by integrating key ESG metrics into financial strategies, leveraging long-term value creation

FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

  • Alignment between operational and financial processes and business strategy
  • Easier access to capital: by demonstrating operational, financial and ESG improvements, the company will find it easier to attract investors
  • Improved corporate reputation
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Participant Profile

  • Managers, financial directors and controllers
  • Executive directors, heads of functional areas and business unit managers

The Program

The Advanced Management Control program is based on four distinct modules, using an essentially applied methodology, through the analysis, application and discussion of case studies.

1. STRATEGIC VISION OF COSTS

2. CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL

3. VALUE-BASED MANAGEMENT - ADDED ECONOMIC VALUE

4. FROM CORPORATE STRATEGY TO THE BALANCED SCORECARD

Although it stands alone, this program can be considered as a complement to the Management Control: Fundamentals program.

1. STRATEGIC VIEW OF COSTS

  • From ABC to ABM
  • Benefits and limitations of ABC
  • Time-driven ABC
  • Strategic cost management
  • Quality cost management
  • Life-cycle costing
  • Target costing
  • Kaizen costing

2. CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL

  • The challenge of corporate sustainability from a value creation perspective
  • The importance of investors integrating ESG metrics into their investment decisions
  • ESG concepts
  • Concept of ESG data and performance metrics
  • How to integrate ESG data into investment policy
  • How to integrate ESG metrics into company performance evaluation

3. VALUE-BASED MANAGEMENT - ECONOMIC VALUE ADDED

  • Measuring capital employed in the business
  • Return on capital employed
  • Cost of capital
  • Measuring the economic value added to the business (EVA)
  • Implementation and limitations of the methodology
  • Setting objectives and executive remuneration

4. FROM CORPORATE STRATEGY TO THE BALANCED SCORECARD

  • Fundamentals of strategic thinking
  • Strategizing - Generating and selecting strategic options
  • Execution - Programming, monitoring and communicating strategy
  • Feedback or feedforward

Advanced Certificate

This program can be combined with the Management Control: Fundamentals program, and concluded with a “Practical Applicability Project”, to obtain an Advanced Certificate in the area of Corporate Governance, proving the transfer of knowledge to business reality.

You can apply for both programs, with a view to obtaining the advanced certificate, for a total tuition fee of €4,320. Contact us to formalize your application.

Academic Direction

Paulo Soares de Pinho
Associate Professor @ Nova SBE

Faculty

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Application Process

  1. Completion of the form and payment of the €100 application fee (non-refundable in the event of withdrawal)
  2. Communication of acceptance within 72 hours 
  3. Finalization of the application with the Program Advisor 

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Program Advisor

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Inês Ferreira
(+351) 910 123 637

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