Control, Audit, Financial Reporting: Master's Year 1

Program Objectives

The first year of the Master's in Control, Audit, Financial Reporting trains future professionals in auditing, management control, and corporate finance, in a context of strong career opportunities. This first year develops technical skills in accounting-related fields, as well as new competencies related to big data and the digitalization of the economy. The program includes core courses in management control, auditing, and corporate finance, along with a range of elective courses. This structure allows students to personalize their academic path.

Program objectives:

Train future executives specializing in auditing, management control, corporate finance with high chances of professional success
Develop technical competencies in the areas required of the financial professions (Financial analysis, accounting according to international standards, cost calculation, business models, budget planning and management, transfer pricing, strategic approaches to management control)
Develop new skills in big data and the digital economy
Develop a reflexive mindset, be able to critically assess data produced
Develop soft skills (team work, active listening, empathy, self awareness, interpersonal relations)

When you enroll in a Master's program, you also join Université PSL. Ranked in the top 50 universities in the world (THE and QS), PSL offers excellent graduate programs at the Master's and PhD level, which benefit from the scientific capabilities of its member institutions. The degree is prepared at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and awarded by Université PSL.

State-controlled degree conferring a master grade

Types of education

Initial training
Work-based training
ECTS Credits

60 credits
Capacity

100
Academic Year

2026/2027
Language(s)

French
Internship

Optional Internship
No work-based training
Type of Diploma

Diploma from a major institution conferring the Master's degree

Graduate Program: give a research dimension to your master

After your undergraduate studies, applying to the research in management double degree's first year will allow you to benefit from research oriented management training directly during your master degree's first year (M1), which later leads to a choice of 7 organizational sciences' specialization tracks, among which the Consulting and Research in Audit and Control M2 track.

You will thus join the Management Graduate Program ; PSL's pre-PhD cursus which consists of research in management's trainings at the master degree's level

Graduate Program in Management

A dedicated team

Léonard GOURBIER

Associate Professor
Director of the 1st year of the Master's degree
Isaure Maury

Teaching assistant - Initial training and Work-based training

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