Master Program in Finance and Accounting
Finance and Accounting teaching is based on provisions addressed to this course by EQUAL. The construction of the programme is subject to the intent of integration of theory, empirical research and practical experience.
Graduate studies last four semesters and the number of class hours within the programme is higher than minimums for this course determined in Education Standards in Finance and Accounting. The programme comprises: basic, major courses, courses toward major, specialization courses and others.
Courses constituting the group of basic courses are determined by the Ministry of Higher Education and by the University. Acquisition of their contents is the condition required to understand forthcoming, more advanced course contents.
Major courses, some of them also determined by the Ministry, comprise contents more related to the course of studies, constituting the starting point to closer recognition of its specific character, pointing the direction of further part of the programme.
The aim of the group of courses toward major, realized mostly in the first semester, is to deepen and broaden knowledge and skills acquired within the framework of the two above mentioned groups of courses as well as preparation for making a good choice of one specialization out of the variety offered by the University. They deliver tools essential to every financier, no matter what sphere of accounting and finance he/she will participate in and what group of subjects he/she will serve.
The group of other courses comprise lectures to select in Polish and in foreign language, and Master's seminar. The choice of particular lectures by students is generally determined by the will to seek knowledge often beyond the fundamental programme contents offered by the course in Finance and Accounting. A considerable part of students select courses from the disciplines less formalized, connected with such courses - also offered by the University - as Management, Sociology, Law. Many students decide therefore to undertake in one of the further semesters parallel studies in other course or to choose additional specialization in Finance and Accounting. To the described group of courses belongs also three-semester Master's seminar, in which students prepare their Master's thesis.
The expression of proper substantial maturity is the well-chosen specialization out of those offered by the University. All specializations prepare for work in professions demanded on the labor market and enable to gain skills and to develop attitudes improving chances for success in professional life and business conducted by the alumni. The spectrum of specializations is so wide that every student, according to his/her professional interest, may find one, which programme contents are most accurate.
Specializations offered by the University have in their contents courses connected both with accounting dominated courses and other that accounting aspects of finance and which constitute a successful combination of all the above mentioned courses. The first group form: Accounting and Audit and control in business, the second one: Finance management, Banking, Insurance and Investment and capital strategies, and the third one - Corporate finance and accounting.
The studies finish with Master's exam, during which the student answers three questions: the first one is general, related to the realities of surrounding economic reality, the second one is specialization-oriented, connected with programme contents of completed specialization and seminar's topics and the third one, in direct relation to the content of prepared thesis.
