A CAS Finance is offered as a Certificate of Advanced Studies course by various Universities of Applied Sciences and universities, all of which have different focuses and content. The structure of the individual CASs is therefore also very different. For example, the course in finance at the ZHAW consists of two modules, Core Finance and Applied Finance, at the fhnw of six modules: Qualitative Analysis, Capital Market Theory, Economics, Valuation of Financial Instruments, Corporate Finance and Ethics and at the uzh of the courses eCorporate Finance Basis and eCorporate Finance Advanced or eCoporate Valuation.

The CAS in Compliance and Corporate Governance comprises a total of three modules, each worth 5 ETCS. The course begins with an introduction to Legal & Compliance and continues with the topics of KYC, market abuse and conflicts of interest, ethics and corporate culture, reputation and reputation management, e-tools and responsibilities of the compliance officer, white-collar crime with corporate criminal law, forgery and cybercrime, corruption, combating money laundering, prevention and response, the basics of company law and user-specific challenges of good corporate governance, compliance in employment law (data protection, bullying, sexual harassment) as well as regulation, supervision and enforcement in the financial sector.