Financial Management to Support Leadership - ECO701AS3YE - Opinto-opas

Financial Management to Support Leadership, 5 cr - ECO701AS3YE

Upcoming implementations

Financial Management to Support Leadership ECO701AS3YE-3002 18.08.2025-10.10.2025 5 op (EVENING, ...) +-
Teaching methods and instruction

Online implementation which consists of weekly assignments for 8 weeks and four online meetings.
Online sessions are on following Wednesdays at 17.40 - 20.30:
20.8.2025
3.9.2025
17.9.2025
1.10.2025
Sessions are compulsory and follow Haaga-Helia's attendance rules.

Learning material and recommended literature

Will be informed in the beginning of the course and available in Moodle.

Working life connections

Student can apply the cases at own workplace.

Campus

Pasila Campus

Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

The course is based on weekly assignments and there are no final exam.

Teaching language

English

Internationality

The topics apply both in Finland and internationally.

Timing

18.08.2025 - 10.10.2025

Learning assignments

Will be provided in the Moodle platform.

Enrollment

14.05.2025 - 22.05.2025

Content scheduling

Period 1, Autumn 2025

Online sessions are on following Wednesdays at 17.40 - 20.30:
20.8.2025
3.9.2025
17.9.2025
1.10.2025

Please also be prepared to work for the course during the weeks between.
Groups
- EVENING
- BLENDED
- YAMKE3BUT
- MASTRE
- ONLINE
- EXCH
- MASTROME
Alternative learning methods

RPL - if you already have knowledge on this topic, please email teacher.

Teachers

Heli Kortesalmi, Mariitta Rauhala

Seats

31 - 60

Further information

Assessment is based on the weekly assignments which are informed in the beginning of the course.

Degree Programme

LEBUM Degree Programme in Leading Business Transformation

R&D proportion

0.00 cr

Virtual proportion

5.00 cr

Evaluation scale

H-5
Financial Management to Support Leadership ECO701AS3YE-3001 12.01.2026-15.05.2026 5 op (NONSTOP, ...) +-
Campus

Pasila Campus

Teaching language

English

Timing

12.01.2026 - 15.05.2026
Groups
- NONSTOP
- VIRTUAL
- MASTRE
- MASTROME
Teachers

Mariitta Rauhala, Mika Mustikainen

Seats

61 - 100

Degree Programme

LEBUM Degree Programme in Leading Business Transformation

R&D proportion

0.00 cr

Virtual proportion

5.00 cr

Evaluation scale

H-5

Current implementations

No ongoing implementations yet.

Past implementations

No past implementations yet.

On completion of the course, students will be able to:
- interpret financial reports and present financial figures in an interesting way and with an understanding cause-and-effect relationship.
- Use metrics and measurement in strategy work and create and justify own target metrics, e.g. for their team.
- Evaluate the profitability of investments and understand the connection between financing, company strategy, and the balance sheet.
- prepare budgets and calculate profitability using various pricing strategies.

Financial planning, steering and monitoring to support the strategy
Budgeting and forecasting models
Investment calculations and financing models
Profitability calculations
Pricing

Depending on the implementation. Learning takes place in contact lessons, as independent studies, teamwork and/or online-studies. Learning methods include dialogic, experimental and collaborative contact lessons, simulation practices, guest lecturers, cases and development of the strategy models in student´s own organization. The course includes the assessment of one’s own learning.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
If a student has acquired the required competence in previous work tasks, recreational activities or on another course, s/he can show their competence via a demonstration. The demonstration must be agreed with the course teacher. More information and instructions for recognising and validating prior learning (RPL) are available at https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/recognition-learning Look at "Instructions to students (master)"

The learning material will be published during the course. Additionally, students are required to independently seek information about their chosen/agreed organizations or industries.

Welcome to learn about financial planning and control for businesses! This course is especially designed for those who want to deepen their financial thinking and may not have been directly involved in these issues in their work before. This course provides students with an understanding of financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting. will become familiar with investment calculations and financing models and learn how to apply these to support business strategy. The course will also cover profitability calculation and pricing to ensure that a company's financial operations are efficient and profitable. The course emphasizes the application of economic thinking, the use and development of calculations and the grounding of strategy in practice.

The course may include a preliminary assignment depending on the implementation. The preliminary assignment can be found in the implementation plan.

This course replaces the previous curriculum's "Strategic Financial Management" (5 ECTS).

This course unit is part of the master's degree's curriculum. Completion of the course requires master's study entitlement.

When the implementation type of the course is contact, online or blended it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25%, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50%, the course is failed.

The student demonstrates satisfactory competence in relation to the course learning objectives. The student identifies some of the theories, perspectives and concepts presented in the course. The student weakly identifies their implications for practice.

The student demonstrates good competence in relation to the course learning objectives. The student has good command of the theories, perspectives and concepts presented in the course. The student is able to analyze their implications for practice.

The student demonstrates excellent competence in relation to the course learning objectives. The student profoundly masters theories, perspectives and concepts presented in the course. The student critically and thoroughly applies the concepts and theories learned in the course to analyze and create solutions for practical work situations.