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Finance and Accounting programme — Bac+5 level

Numerical rigour in the service of decision-making.

Entry level
Master's degree
Award
Master's degree
Duration
2 years
Actual work
20 h/week
Pace
Compatible with a job
Tuition
6 800 000 GNF per year

A Bac+5-level programme for future finance directors, controllers and auditors. It combines the accounting technique required by the OHADA framework, financial analysis and performance management, with an opening onto digital finance and mobile payments.

Learning objectives

  • Produce and sign off financial statements compliant with the OHADA framework
  • Run a financial analysis and assess a company's health
  • Build a budget and manage performance through variances
  • Appraise an investment and structure its financing

Curriculum

1200 hours · 120 credits

Year 1660 hours

  1. Advanced OHADA accounting and consolidation

    240 hours · 24 credits

    Complex transactions, provisions, fixed assets, consolidation, international convergence

  2. Financial analysis and diagnosis

    220 hours · 22 credits

    Adjustments, profitability, structure, cash flows, credit rating, a reasoned diagnosis

  3. Advanced management control

    120 hours · 12 credits

    Full and marginal costing, activity-based costing, budgets, steering by indicators

  4. Financial English and methodology

    80 hours · 8 credits

    Reading financial statements in English, research method

Year 2540 hours

  1. Corporate finance and valuation

    200 hours · 20 credits

    Investment appraisal, cost of capital, financial structure, company valuation

  2. Mobile payment and financial inclusion

    160 hours · 16 credits

    The ecosystem, business models, interoperability, designing an offer, impact measurement

  3. Audit, internal control and compliance

    120 hours · 12 credits

    Audit approach, internal control, anti-money laundering, regulatory reporting

  4. Professional dissertation and sixteen-week placement

    60 hours · 6 credits

    An assignment in a company or a firm, defended before a joint panel

Real prerequisite

What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.

General accounting: debit, credit, balance sheet and income statement. The programme starts from the OHADA framework, it does not teach it from scratch.

Entry requirements

  • Bac+3 level in management, economics, accounting or finance
  • Command of basic accounting mechanics verified by a test
  • Career project interview

Career outcomes

  • Management controller
  • Financial analyst
  • Internal or external auditor
  • Chief accountant
  • Chief financial officer

Skills acquired

  • OHADA
  • Financial analysis
  • Budgeting
  • Audit
  • Advanced Excel
  • Reporting

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