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SGBS Certified Finance Expert St. Gallen

    Concept

    Your commitment

    • 24 attendance days, at least 8 of them in St. Gallen, Switzerland
    • Combination of study modules and seminar modules
    • 5 seminar modules, in CH or D
    • A project paper on a financial topic, 20 - 30 pages
    • Presentation of the project work
    • Compressed knowledge plus directly applicable tools
    • Use of the impulses for the personal master plan: What to implement and how?

    Your benefit

    1. Learn to take responsibility for planning, budgeting, controlling and ultimately financial results.
    2. You will learn to financially manage a profit center, a division, a business unit or a company.
    3. By acquiring the SGBS Certified Finance Expert St. Gallen you want to acquire more comprehensive skills in the financial area.

    Upgrade
    Later upgrade to Executive MBA, see sgbs.com/upgrade

    Modules, procedure

    Competence profile
    What skills and abilities do you need for your professional future?

    Financial model: 4 days in St. Gallen
    Profitability, profitability and value enhancement in the holistic St. Gallen management concept.

    Seminars

    Seminar 1: Productivity and Performance

    Seminar 2: EBIT Management & Controlling

    Seminar 3: Strategic Financial Management incl. Mergers & Acquisitions

    Seminar 4: Financial Management for Executives

    Project work
    Elaboration of a 20- to 30-page paper on a relevant topic in your industry.

    Project work: time 3 months
    Accompanied by our Director of Studies, you will prepare a project paper on a key topic from your industry.

    Colloquium, Defensio: 1 day
    At the colloquium in St. Gallen, you defend your work against critical scrutiny. Online.

    Implementation and awarding
    4 days of knowledge application and certification and award of the SGBS Certified Finance Expert St. Gallen.

    Participants

    Managers, project managers and specialists who need massively increased expertise in financial tasks

    Admission

    High performers with at least 3 years of practical experience. Managers from all areas who already have experience in planning, budgeting, financial management and controlling, but now require a high level of competence in financial management and financial target achievement.

    Topics

    New competencies
    What major challenges does the future hold? What does this mean for financial management? What for your personal skills?

    St. Gallen management approach
    The financial management task of executives. Finance as part of holistic St. Gallen management.

    Productivity and Performance
    Optimal processes, effective structures and agility in management and staff as the basis for financial success. www.sgbs.com/e89

    Ebit Management & Controlling
    Achieve financial targets. Increase profitability. Managing with key figures. Controlling. sgbs.com/e53

    Seminar: Financial management
    Financial decisions to manage the company or parts of the company. sgbs.com/e51

    Deepening knowledge and application
    In 4 days, you will experience how the knowledge of financial management is applied in practice in the management team using a specific business development case. www.sgbs.com/e97

    General Information

    Registration, administration, admission

    Office

    St. Gallen Business School
    St. Gallen Practical Studies
    Rosenbergstrasse 36
    CH-9000 St. Gallen

    Phone: +41 71 225 40 80
    Internet: www.sgbs.com/practicalstudies
    E-Mail: practicalstudies@sgbs.com

    Study advice, Registration

    Our study directors are available to provide you with detailed information and answer questions about admission to the individual degree programs by phone or in person. Registration takes place online at www.sgbs.com/practicalstudies .

    Approval procedure

    Before you submit your written application, you are welcome to speak to one of our directors of studies by phone to clarify whether the requirements for admission are met. To register, use the registration card in the brochure or register online at www.sgbs.ch. You will then receive an application form, which you must fill out and submit to the director of studies in our office. After you submit your application, you will be informed in writing of the decision on definitive admission and the next steps within a few days.

    Study plan and start of studies

    The start of the course is the day of written confirmation of definitive admission. After that, the individual study plan is drawn up. We will provide you with working documents and electronic tools, which you fill out and return to us. In a subsequent telephone conversation, we will then clarify which special skills and learning in-depths you want to acquire or achieve with the ‘St. Gallen Practical Study for Managers’. From this, we will develop the individual study plan with you, including all the activities, studies and seminar modules, project work, colloquium, as well as the dates and locations. The individual scheduling situation will be taken into account - as far as the study regulations allow.

    Tuition fee

    The tuition fee (plus statutory VAT) includes the costs for the study modules in St. Gallen, seminar attendance, colloquiums, electronic seminar documents, assessment of project work and ongoing support. Not included are all hotel services (accommodation, meals, daily rates for hotels or seminar centers) that are incurred as part of the seminar and colloquium attendance. These are to be paid directly by the participants at the respective event location. The tuition fee can be paid in 2 or 3 installments.
    All tuition fees can be charged and paid in euros at the current daily rate upon request.

    Hotels, Seminar Centers

    Some of the seminars and colloquia take place directly on site at the St. Gallen Business School or in hotels carefully selected by us. Participants benefit from seminar package. Hotel reservations are made by the participants themselves. You will receive detailed hotel information with the registration confirmation. The hotels invoice participants individually. The daily flat rate for the conference centers in St. Gallen, London and Boston is invoiced to participants in advance by the St. Gallen Business School and forwarded to the conference center.

    Rebookings of Seminar-Modules

    Rebookings of individual seminars, colloquia and study modules are possible up to 3 times in total, each up to 4 weeks before the corresponding date, without a rebooking fee. From the 4th rebooking, a rebooking fee of CHF 400.- per rebooking is due. The Certified Experts degree should normally be completed within 9 - 12 months; in justified exceptional cases, the study period can be extended by a maximum of 6 months. Services not completed and claimed by then expire without compensation. At the St. Gallen Management Schools, a study period of 9 - 18 months should normally be aimed for; in justified exceptional cases, the study period can be extended by a maximum of 9 months. Services not completed and claimed by then expire without compensation.

    Withdrawal, cancellation, annulment of the Study Program

    Cancellation of a registration is possible free of charge up to 2 months before the start of the Study Program. If you withdraw between 2 months before the start of the course and 2 months after the start of the course, you must pay the first instalment (33% of the tuition fee). If you withdraw between 2 months and 5 months after the start of the course, you must also pay the second instalment (33% of the tuition fee). If you withdraw more than5 months after the start of the course, you must pay the full tuition fee. The start of the program begins either with the development of the individual study plan (in the Certified Expert line) or with the 4-day start seminar in St. Gallen on the topic of the holistic St. Gallen management approach ( St. Gallen Schools, St. Gallen Certificate Programs).

    Awarding of the Certified Expert St. Gallen or final certificate

    The awards ceremony takes place as part of a final module in St. Gallen.

    Cancellation insurance

    We recommend that you take out cancellation insurance with your insurance company to cover cancellation costs due to illness and other events.

    Internet – Download

    You have the option of viewing our entire seminar and study program or downloading it to your computer at www.sgbs.com/downloads .

    Upgrade to academic studies

    At www.sgbs.com/upgrade you will find a description of the upgrade from the St. Gallen practical course to the academic course. As a graduate of the SGBS Certified Executive Management Expert, you can, under certain conditions, apply for an accredited Executive MBA in General Management course, which can be completed in a further 1 to 2 semesters while working. We would be happy to inform you about the separate admission and study requirements for these academic programs EMBA Executive MBA.