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CFO & Finance Leader

Own the numbers: reporting, planning, capital, and control.

A finance-first path through accounting, corporate finance, economics, and advanced electives—sequenced for leaders who translate performance into decisions, manage capital structure, and steward investor trust.

Who it's for: Aspiring CFOs, finance directors, controllers moving into strategic finance, and operators who need board-grade financial literacy.

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What you'll be able to do

  • Read and challenge financial statements and management reports
  • Build budgets, forecasts, and variance narratives managers act on
  • Model valuation, capital structure, and investment tradeoffs
  • Connect micro and macro signals to planning and risk
  • Deliver a capstone with reconciled financials and downside cases

Core sequence

Recommended order through the MBA core and capstone. Follow the full 12-month plan if you want a fixed weekly schedule.

  1. 01OMBA 101: Business Foundations and Managerial Thinking

    Foundation

    Business models and how value flows through a P&L

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  2. 02OMBA 102: Data, Statistics and Managerial Decisions

    Foundation

    Quantitative reasoning for forecasts and risk

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  3. 03ACC 101: Financial Accounting

    Analytical

    GAAP literacy, statements, and accrual mechanics

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  4. 04ACC 102: Managerial Accounting and Control

    Analytical

    Costing, budgets, variances, and decision support

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  5. 05ECO 101: Microeconomics and Competitive Markets

    Analytical

    Pricing, margins, and competitive cost structure

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  6. 06FIN 201: Corporate Finance

    Analytical

    Valuation, WACC, capital allocation, and deal logic

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  7. 07ECO 102: Macroeconomics and the Global Business Environment

    Management

    Rates, cycles, and planning under macro uncertainty

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  8. 08CAP 600: Program Capstone Studio

    Capstone

    Integrated financial model and risk analysis

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Recommended electives

Complete 4 electives total. These four align with a CFO track; the Finance & Investing pathway is the natural concentration.

  1. 01FIN 401: Advanced Financial Modeling

    Three-statement models, scenarios, and audit discipline

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  2. 02FIN 402: Equity Valuation and Security Analysis

    Valuation theses and investor-grade analysis

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  3. 03FIN 404: Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring

    M&A process, diligence, and integration economics

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  4. 04FIN 406: Financial Markets, Derivatives and Risk Management

    Treasury, hedging, and enterprise risk framing

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Capstone focus

Stress-test an integrative decision with a reconciled financial model, base and downside scenarios, capital implications, and a CFO memo that names explicit assumptions and guardrails.

CAP 600: Program Capstone Studio →