Tradition and Innovation in the Present and in the Future

A course whose real strength is interdisciplinarity and which focuses on ordinary and extraordinary operations, observing them from different points of view: that of governance, that of corporate finance, that of accounting representation and that of legal and tax implications. "Students deal with issues that touch on different areas of management and this allows them to have an all-round view of the elements that characterize non-recurring operations such as mergers, demergers, transfers and company contributions," explains Gianluca Lombardi Stocchetti, associate professor at the Department of Accounting of Bocconi University and director of CLELI (Business Law). "The course also deals with other issues related to the profession, the revision and functioning of financial markets, and the multidisciplinary approach that characterizes CLELI generates in the student the sensitivity to deal with complex problems having as reference the various and complementary business and legal profiles."

A program that, unlike others in the range of proposals of the University's Masters of Science, has an essentially national focus, but which is not closed to internationality: "Many of our graduates enter important business realities where they are involved in operations of international scope; their role is fundamental not only to explain to foreign colleagues how certain operations are conducted in our country, but also to facilitate dialogue between the different professional skills that are involved. "I consider experiences abroad an indispensable factor to face the world of work - continues Lombardi Stocchetti - and recently we have introduced new stimuli to facilitate participation in the projects offered abroad by our University: places reserved only for CLELI students , the chance to attend compulsory courses at a distance, collaboration with the Order of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts of Milan to give international value to the training internships that our students can face in the last semester of their educational path. Let's not forget that IL CLELI is the program that best prepares you for the profession of chartered accountant".
The job opportunities for CLELI graduates are varied and evolving: "in the freelance profession and auditing, our students are offered job opportunities in strategy and management consulting companies, in Investment Banks, in Asset Management Companies, in Private Equity, in companies of Rating and in the legal departments of banking groups and operators on the financial markets".

60% of CLELI's students come from three-year courses of Bocconi itself, for the remaining part from universities throughout Italy. "Many universities offer degree courses with these characteristics," says Lombardi Stocchetti, "but CLELI, born as an autonomous four-year degree course many years ago, enjoys great prestige and a leading position on the market." There is another strong point that Lombardi Stocchetti would like to highlight: "In our program teach, in addition to tenured professors, many professionals who, thanks to their experience, allow students to concretely understand the operations under study. The CLELI classroom is small and very cohesive, and the teaching faculty is committed not only to providing knowledge, but also to promoting positive, collaborative, critical-constructive attitudes, fundamental skills especially for those who will go to work in complex contexts.
Finally, the course has a particular structure, which enhances diversity: "In the first year students have only compulsory teachings," continues the director, "but in the second only one compulsory course is attended, allowing students to select optional exams, in Italy and abroad, of particular interest or on frontier issues. Even the accounting world, very traditional, is slowly changing."