Short 4-module programme in Brussels & Vilnius
The Finance View in Decision Making
Learn and apply how financial value is measured in order to make independent, innovative, and pertinent decisions.
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Every manager faces financial issues. Often, multiple different financial options are available. In such a context, this 6-day programme with an additional group project provide you with the tools and methods needed to:
- Understand how financial value is measured to analyse financial statements independently.
- Develop a clear grasp of value creation to identify the most effective innovations.
- Determine and effectively use the right key performance indicators to drive the implementation of strategic change.
Benefits for participants
- Develop ability to estimate value of companies.
- Improve your understanding on financial statements.
- Develop the ability to work with and manage a diverse team of peers.
- Develop effective public speaking and presentation skills.
Programme structure in Brussels
Credits earned are transferable to our International Executive MBA.
- MODULE No.1: 16-17 May Financial Accounting with Mark Payne (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
- MODULE No.2: 23-24 May Business Performance Management with Prof. Joachim Sandt (Frankfurt University, Germany)
- MODULE No.3: 26-28 June Corporate & Entrepreneurial Finance Marc Steffen Rapp (Philipps-Universität Marburg, School of Business and Economics, Germany)
- MODULE No.4: September Presentations of Live project 1 – Mark Payne (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Programme structure in Vilnius
Credits earned are transferable to our International Executive MBA.
- MODULE No.1: September 2025 Financial Accounting with Mark Payne (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
- MODULE No.2: October 2025 Business Performance Management with Prof. Joachim Sandt (Frankfurt University, Germany)
- MODULE No.3: October 2025 Entrepreneurial Finance with Prof. Gloria Batllori (ESADE, Spain)
- MODULE No.4: November 2025 Presentations of Live project 1
Professors

Mark Payne
Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)- Mark has been a lecturer in Financial Accounting and Valuation at Copenhagen Business School since 2005. He has also taught Advanced Financial Accounting to EMBA students at BMI Executive Institute since 2010.
- He has held executive roles in the SEB banking group, serving as Chief Financial Officer for SEB Denmark Pension, and prior to that, in 2009-2015, as CFO of SEB’s Baltic Division (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) performing a turnaround project.
- He has also worked for Citigroup, KPMG and BDO in London.

Joachim Sandt
Frankfurt University (Germany)- Joachim is Professor of Performance Measurement and Management Control at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and a visiting professor at BMI Executive Institute.
- He has extensive experience in executive education and consulting for companies in a range of industries from automotive, aviation, hotel, health care and IT, to logistics, luxury goods and utilities.
- His research, teaching and consulting focus on performance measurement and management control, designing and implementing management control systems for strategy execution, process improvement and organisational development.

Gloria Batllori
ESADE (Spain)- She is a Professor of finance at ESADE Business School in Barcelona. She teaches corporate finance and financial analysis
- Has had exposure to many different industries as a consultant, including banking, food, construction, textile, and retail. She consults on valuation for M&A and startups
- Has been involved in the launch of innovative programmes partnering nonacademic institutions – such as Singularity University (Silicon Valley) and CERN (Geneva) – with ESADE
- Started her career working for the Spanish government in international trade in Los Angeles. She then worked in strategic consulting at The Mac Group, and later founded her own consulting firm – Diedro Advising.

Marc Steffen Rapp
Philipp-Universiät Marburg (Germany)- His research interests span issues of corporate governance, accounting, capital allocation, corporate finance, and empirical capital market research.
- From 2010-2020, he was the scientific co-director of the Center for Corporate Governance at Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL).
- Former academic and visiting positions at Copenhagen Business School, London Business School, Technische Universität München, the German Institute of Science and Technology in Singapore, and Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL).
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