Curriculum structure

Syllabus Summary – Master’s

The Graduate Accounting Program offers the Professional Master in Controllership Degree Program.   

This Master program has a duration of 24 months subdivided into four (04) semesters and a total of 50 credits. In the first year of the program, candidates must take four required subjects and four elective subjects. In the third and fourth semesters, candidates are to dedicate themselves to drafting their dissertations under the guidance of a professor and earn eight credits from required scheduled activities. Candidates must submit their Qualification Exam Project by the end of the third semester. The Master Dissertation must be submitted by the end of the fourth semester, all according to the deadlines outlined in the program’s regulations. Elective subjects are offered alternately in each semester and balanced according to Research Tracks. Elective subjects will be offered assuming that a minimum of five (05) candidates are regularly enrolled.



    Subjects

    The Master's course consists of compulsory and optional subjects. The master's student must attend in the first year of the course 04 mandatory and 04 elective subjects.

    The elective subjects are offered alternately each semester and in a balanced way by Line of Research. The optional subjects take place as long as there is a minimum of 5 (five) students regularly enrolled.

     

    Mandatory disciplines

     

    Elective disciplines

    Research area: Management Control and Sustainability

     

    Research area: Finance, Accounting and Tax Regulation


    Teaching Internship

    The Course also offers the opportunity for the master's/doctoral student to undertake an internship in the Graduate Course in Accounting or Business Administration, tutored by an experienced professor, aiming to offer initiation as a future professor, if he considers this possibility.

    Access here for more information regarding the theach internship


    Obligatory Scheduled Activities - Master's and Doctorate

    Mandatory programmed activities are consubstantiated in presentations of works in scientific events, publications and other activities of academic and/or technical/technological relevance. The purpose of these activities is to provide students with contact with different realities and experiences, with businessmen and executives from national and international organizations.

    During the course, the student will be involved in mandatory activities with the aim of increasing their knowledge and skills in the area of ​​controllership and corporate finance, as well as in research methodologies applied to the business reality.

    The student can act in these activities both as an organizer and as a participant (speaker) or listener.

     

    Theme Workshops

    Debates and seminars are held over the course of the various semesters, addressing emerging topics with the participation of market practitioners and researchers, as a means to optimize the integration between the university and the business community.  

     

    Credits from Obligatory Scheduled Activities:

    • Technological Report (Mandatory)
    • Mackenzie Controllership and Finance Meeting
    • Workshops / Seminars / Workshops at UPM
    • Business or Professional Association Events
    • Lectures and courses in Companies
    • Technical visits
    • Technological and Academic Events
    • Submission of Technological or Academic Work
    • Evaluation of Technological or Academic Work
    • Technical Publications
    • Academic Publications
    • Extension Activities at Mackenzie
    • International APO
    • Additional Discipline


    During the course, it is the student's responsibility to collect and keep the certificates and evidence corresponding to each APO and prove these activities to the course secretariat, 30 days before the deposit of the course completion work, together with the form below.

     

    FORMS:

    Guidelines for compliance with the APO - Obligatory Scheduled Activities => click here

     

     

    Syllabus Summary – Doctor's

    The Graduate Program in Controllership and Corporate Finance (PPG-CFE) offers the Professional Doctorate in Controllership and Corporate Finance (DPCFE) course.

    The Doctorate course lasts 42 months, divided into 7 (seven) academic semesters, with a total of 74 credits. The doctoral student must take, during the first three semesters of the course, 04 mandatory and 04 optional subjects. In the other semesters (from the 4th to the 7th), the doctoral student dedicates himself to his research and preparation of the thesis, under the guidance of a professor, as well as to carrying out a set of 14 credits of mandatory programmed activities. By the end of the 5th semester, the doctoral student must submit the version of the thesis for the Qualifying Examination. The version of the Doctoral Thesis for defense must be deposited by the end of the 7th semester, within the deadlines determined by the course regulation.



    Subjects

    The Doctorate course consists of compulsory and optional subjects. The doctoral student must take, during the first three semesters of the course, 4 mandatory and 04 optional subjects.

    The elective subjects are offered alternately each semester and in a balanced way by Line of Research. The optional subjects take place as long as there is a minimum of 5 (five) students regularly enrolled.

     

    Mandatory disciplines

     

    Elective disciplines for the Doctorate (Mandatory for the Master's)

     

    Elective disciplines

    Research area: Management Control and Sustainability

     

    Research area: Finance, Accounting and Tax Regulation


    Teaching Internship

    The Course also offers the opportunity for the master's/doctoral student to undertake an internship in the Graduate Course in Accounting or Business Administration, tutored by an experienced professor, aiming to offer initiation as a future professor, if he considers this possibility.

    Access here for more information regarding the theach internship


    Obligatory Scheduled Activities - Master's and Doctorate

    Mandatory programmed activities are consubstantiated in presentations of works in scientific events, publications and other activities of academic and/or technical/technological relevance. The purpose of these activities is to provide students with contact with different realities and experiences, with businessmen and executives from national and international organizations.

    During the course, the student will be involved in mandatory activities with the aim of increasing their knowledge and skills in the area of ​​controllership and corporate finance, as well as in research methodologies applied to the business reality.

    The student can act in these activities both as an organizer and as a participant (speaker) or listener.

     

    Theme Workshops

    Debates and seminars are held over the course of the various semesters, addressing emerging topics with the participation of market practitioners and researchers, as a means to optimize the integration between the university and the business community.  

     

    Credits from Obligatory Scheduled Activities:

    • Technological Report (Mandatory)
    • Mackenzie Controllership and Finance Meeting
    • Workshops / Seminars / Workshops at UPM
    • Business or Professional Association Events
    • Lectures and courses in Companies
    • Technical visits
    • Technological and Academic Events
    • Submission of Technological or Academic Work
    • Evaluation of Technological or Academic Work
    • Technical Publications
    • Academic Publications
    • Extension Activities at Mackenzie
    • International APO
    • Additional Discipline


    During the course, it is the student's responsibility to collect and keep the certificates and evidence corresponding to each APO and prove these activities to the course secretariat, 30 days before the deposit of the course completion work, together with the form below.

     

    FORMS:

    Guidelines for compliance with the APO - Obligatory Scheduled Activities => click here

     

    Class Hours

    Fridays, from 6.30 to 10 pm, and Saturdays, from 09.20 to 12.40 am.

     

    Total Credits:

    Master's

    • Required disciplines: 16 credits
    • Elective disciplines: 16 credits
    • Obligatory scheduled activities: 08 credits
    • Final Paper: 10 credits

     

    Doctorate

    • Required disciplines: 16 credits
    • Elective disciplines: 16 credits
    • Obligatory scheduled activities: 14 credits
    • Final Paper or Thesis: 28 credits