81113 - Seminar on Audit and Tax: a Case-based Competition

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Antonio Matacena
  • Credits: 3
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Accounting (cod. 0900)

Learning outcomes

The educational goal is to teach the work method used in accounting and tax firms (so called Big4) and enhancing the technical and soft skills of attending students in the field of audit and tax.

Course contents

The workshop consists of four meetings in which participants will explore specific audit or tax topics, through a competition among groups of students, who are to solve a business case. Each case will be introduced and, at the end, solved by partners and managers of the major audit and tax firms.

Readings/Bibliography

Slides and case descriptions.

Assessment methods

Presentations and short reports.

Office hours

See the website of Antonio Matacena