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Finance

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Finance study

⇑Finance at ARŁ

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies

⇑Why study Finance at Lazarski University in Warsaw?

Dlaczego warto studiować w Akademii Łazarskiego
Why study it:

Finance at Lazarski University in Warsaw is a three-year, full-time bachelor's programme taught entirely in English, with two routes to choose from: Corporate Finance and Personal Investment Portfolio. It suits you if you want to work with money in a hands-on way, either inside a company or on the investment markets.

Programme: a shared base, then two paths

The first year gives you the common ground of business studies: an introduction to business, micro- and macroeconomics, mathematics, statistics, information technology, and basic finance and marketing. Only after that do the routes diverge. Throughout the programme, theory is limited to what you really need, and the weight falls on skills that lecturers with business experience use in their own work. Studies close with a simulation game in which you practise making business decisions.

Specialisation: company finance or your own portfolio

Two specialisations

  • Corporate Financethe company's point of view: managing assets and funding, assessing projects, raising money from lenders, investors and public institutions, and analysing a firm's results
  • Personal Investment Portfoliothe investor's point of view: financial markets, risk and its psychology, market analysis, and building portfolios from stocks, bonds, real estate, currencies and newer assets
  • Where they meetethics in corporate finance and the final-year simulation game appear on both routes

Placements: internships and business partners

The final year includes internships and project writing seminars, while the faculty runs events, workshops, contests and consulting projects with partners such as Citi, ING, Deloitte and Quinnipiac University in the United States.

After graduation: analyst, controller, investor

Depending on the route you choose, you can aim for roles such as:

  • finance specialist or controller in a company, with the CFO position as a long-term ambition
  • project manager in finance or international finance specialist
  • financial or investment analyst
  • portfolio manager, asset manager or fund manager
  • financial planner or risk manager

Based on the programme pages at lazarski.pl.

⇑Test: find out if Finance is the right direction for you!

Finance test

Find Out if a Degree in Finance Matches Your Talents!

1. How comfortable are you performing mathematical calculations and numerical analyses?

2. To what extent do you follow current market trends?

3. Do you habitually assess and manage risks before making decisions?

4. How would you rate your ability to organize and maintain a budget?

5. How important is integrity and transparency to you in financial matters?

6. Can you maintain concentration during long hours of data analysis?

7. Are you keen on using advanced software tools in finance?

8. How effective are your communication skills when presenting financial results?

9. Do you prefer teamwork or solo work on finance projects?

10. What motivates you most about studying finance?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Finance
Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments. It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainties and risks. Finance can also be defined as the science of money management. Market participants aim to price assets based on their risk level, fundamental value, and their expected rate of return. Finance can be broken into three sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance.
Finance
There’s no longer any reason to believe that the wizards of Wall Street actually contribute anything positive to society, let alone enough to justify those humongous paychecks. ... It’s hard to think of any major recent financial innovations that actually aided society, as opposed to being new, improved ways to blow bubbles, evade regulations and implement de facto Ponzi schemes.
Paul Krugman, "Money For Nothing," The New York Times, April 26, 2009
Finance
The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.
Jean-Baptiste Say A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832) Book III, On Consumption, Chapter VIII, Section I, p. 449
Finance
The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, part I, chap. 1 (1915)

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