Management Control
The purpose of this course is to understand management control system in terms of strategy implementation, possibility for improvement, and integration with other functional domains.
- English
- Part-time
Introduction
The object of control has over time moved from being heavily influenced by finance, to being driven more by knowledge traits. Meaning we need to extend the function of control and steer our efforts towards knowledge-sharing and peer-to-peer collaboration and learning.
We must also understand how to incorporate concepts from organisational behaviour and knowledge management, in our control efforts.
Participants joining this course will be introduced to approaches of both conventional management control and contemporary management control. The latter is conceived as the preferred management control approach of knowledge-based firms.
Learning outcomes
- Knowledge: You will get and understanding of the difference between financial and non-financial management control systems.
- Skills: You will acquire the skills to develop new approaches for existing management control problems.
- General competence: You will learn to classify and assess your company’s existing management control system.
Course content
The course consists of (guest) lectures, group-based casework, and an individual course paper. Lectures introduce the indicated topics conceptually and explore it in terms of managerial implications and the links to other areas of management.
Lectures are categorized into three topical areas:
- Introduction: purpose of management control systems
- Conventional management control and performance measurement
- Contemporary management control
Key elements of the introduction to MCS (technology, behavioural patterns) and of contemporary management control (OKRs, non-financial performance measurement) are part of the course design and course delivery.
After completing the course, you will receive a certificate of participation in the form of a digital badge. You can easily save and share this on LinkedIn or your social networks.
Faculty
Professor Hanno Roberts, Department of accounting and operations management
Associate Professor Ignacio Garcia de Olalla Lopez, Department of accounting and operations management
Associate Professor Kizkitza Biguri, Associate Professor of Finance
Payment
Price per course is NOK 9 500, - Payment is made upon registration.
How it works
The series of Short Online Modules consists of three separate modules where you can chose one, two or three modules. Each module runs over a period of three weeks with weekly 3 hours online live classes at Zoom and online learning material and activities at the Insendi learning platform.
Formalize with ECTS?
If you have signed up for all three modules within the same course series, and qualify for exam for this type of course at BI, you may formalize the course series with an exam, counting for 7.5 ECTS.
The admission requirement for a 7,5 ECTS course at bachelor level is passed three years upper secondary education (In Norway this provides general study competence). Alternatively, admission may be based on age and prior learning and work experience. The deadline if you want to apply for the exam is February 25th for the Spring semester or September 25th for the Autumn semester. There is an exam fee, currently NOK 2950,-