MCF: Corporate Finance - 12 months full-time in Milan

hy choose the MCF?
The mission of the Program is to prepare students to offer high quality solutions to financial problems, both operationally and strategically. The Program is designed to provide you with the most advanced techniques of Financial Management and with an accurate knowledge of the principles that lie behind sound financial decisions: a fine blend of leadership and respect for others, ethics and the appreciation of diversity.

MCF offers you:

• A special approach to business and life
• Shaping the whole you
• Working hard and playing hard
• Treasury teamwork and diversity
• Full support

Mission and learning objectives

The mission of the Program is to prepare students to offer high quality solutions to financial problems, both operationally and strategically. The Program is designed to provide you with the most advanced techniques of Financial Management and with an accurate knowledge of the principles that lie behind sound financial decisions: a fine blend of leadership and respect for others, ethics and the appreciation of diversity.

We aim to bring out your best qualities, while supporting you with universal management techniques and know-how. You will form a clearer idea of your potential career paths during the Program: cutting no corners, but not ruling out any options. Our classes include participants from several countries and widely varied professional backgrounds: a hotbed for innovative solutions.

The Program Learning Goals are: 

• Theoretical financial knowledge: you will understand financial tenets and their interrelationships and appropriate applications.  
• Practical financial knowledge and technical skills: you will gain exposure to independent problem solving, and synthesize the elements of comprehensive applied financial planning. In addition, you will learn how to use information technology and quantifiable skills appropriate to problem solving in a real world context.  
• Critical thinking, analytical problem solving skills: you will become able to grasp facts and concepts and apply them to solve problems, draw conclusions and recognize consequences. Moreover, you will practice creative and non-traditional problem solving.

The business world demands balanced judgment that blends leadership with respect for others, ethics and the appreciation of diversity. Ethical behavior both during class time and during the internship period will be a can’t-do-without ability of a true Master.

Interested in learning more about the SDA Bocconi MCF: Corporate Finance? Request Information from SDA Bocconi School of Management here

A fact: The vast majority of the MCF graduates consistently succeed in their finance career.

The admissions process for the MCF: Corporate Finance  is based on an overall analysis of various factors. Skills, talents and formal pre-requisites.

Candidates are required to have:

• Application form
• Degree certificate, transcript and detailed CV (A graduate degree (in any discipline)
• An average of 2/3 years of relevant professional experience
• Proficiency in English: you must take the TOEFL or IELTS tests.
• GMAT
• Two letters of reference
• Application from sponsor companies
• Interview

Who is a typical MCF participant?
A typical MCF participant is a person who is very determined in wanting to pursue a career in finance. MCF participants should possess a strong intuition alongside a good academic background. If an individual opts for the MCF today, it means that he has a strong willingness to grow both as a expert in the field of finance and a person, by investing in new opportunities, responsibilities and ethical values.

Please contact SDA Bocconi to learn more about their admission requirements and the application process here

Programme structure and curriculum

The structure of this MCF: Corporate Finance is made up of six courses to develop financial knowledge, models and tools. Participants must attend all courses and take compulsory exams on all 6 courses.

Financial Analysis:

• Financial Statement Analysis
• Financial Ratios
• Ex-ante and Ex-post Cash Flows
• Working Capital Management
• Key Tools in Financial Programming and Planning

Financial Management:

• Capital Budgeting and Investment Analysis
• Cost of Equity Capital
• Cost of Debt
• Capital Structure

Capital Markets:

• Capital Market Main Features
• Issuing Equity Securities
• The IPO Process
• The Bond Issuing Process
• Derivatives

Corporate Valuation:

• Basic Principles in Valuation
• Discounted Cash Flow
• DDM and other Techniques
• Relative Valuation Approaches
• Valuation for M&As

Mergers & Acquisitions:

• The Intersection of Strategy and Finance
• Using M&As to Grow, Reconfigure or Harvest
• Designing and Implementing M&A Deals
• VC and LBOs
• Corporate Restructuring

Financial Modelling:

• Statistics Review
• Linear Regression
• Time Series Forecasting
• What if Analysis
• Monte Carlo Simulation

Advanced Courses

Participants must attend all courses and take compulsory exams on 8 out of 8 of the following Advanced Courses; these courses are highly focused from a professional standpoint, for this reason professionals and managers with outstanding experience and skills are responsible for some of these courses.

Real Estate Finance
The objective of this course is to introduce participants to the Real Estate market by explaining key rules, compensation mechanisms and roles of the main players.

Project Finance
This advanced course focuses on understanding the main features, advantages and limits of project finance in realizing infrastructure investment projects.

Behavioral Issues in Valuation
The course is aimed at familiarizing students with how behavioral issues may affect valuation and the potential to lead to counter-intuitive results.

Corporate Financial Policies
A practical course designed to prepare students to analyse financial policies and to “read” the behaviour of debt capital markets, both in terms of capital structure design and dividend policies.

Financial Databases
A crash course on Datastream Advance and Bloomberg designed to provide students with the ability to query and retrieve financial information, and to assess its reliability and meaning.

Economics
This course covers the macroeconomics of national and international financial markets emphasizing the current hot topics in European economic policy discussions.

Finance Function, Value Creation and Corporate Governance
A course designed to acquaint students with the function, organization and role of the Finance, Administration and Control Department and CFO in large companies and groups, and their contribution to the value creation process.

Negotiation & Leadership
The course aims to prepare students to gain effective negotiation techniques through rational and persuasive approaches and to acknowledge the key elements of leadership through simulations.

Streams and Seminars 

Participants must attend all seminars and take compulsory exams on 10 out of 10 of the following Seminars.

*Equity Derivatives for Corporates (Credit Suisse)

*Leveraged Finance (Unicredit)

*Asset Management for Corporates (Generali)

*Private Equity (NCP)

*Crisis Restructuring (Pieroni-Cenciarini)

*Hedge Funds (Lucchini)

*Financial Modelling Techniques for Corporates (Poli)

*Entrepreneurial Finance (Etro-Dell’Acqua)

*Financial Performance Measurement (Dossi)

*Corporate Social Responsibilities

On-the–Field Activities 

Company Internship or Applied Research Project

Graduation Cerimony 

At SDA Bocconi we have a mandatory attendance policy that is in place for the duration of the program. The intensive nature of our twelve-month course makes it impossible to engage in professional activities that might provide you with financial support.

Fees and expenses of this SDA Bocconi MCF: Corporate Finance are €29,000 (twenty five thousand), to be paid in four instalments (plus Admission Procedure Fee Euro 100

Tuition fees include:

• all teaching costs;
• internal teaching materials used during the Program (some books are not included);
• visits to companies and institutions (includes organization, transport and tutorship; excludes lodging and food);  
• courses of Italian language, with the possibility of attaining the CILS test of Italian language knowledge. Participants are required to contribute with a fee of 100 euros and have to buy textbooks and teaching materials;
• access to Bocconi Library and on-line database. 

For more information on the Tuition Waivers available please contact us here to learn more.