Warsaw, Poland

Finance

Bachelor's
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Finance study

Finance at UŁa

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

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 real reason that physicians are rotten investors is that it never occurs to them that finance is a science, just like medicine.
William J. Bernstein The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Introduction, p. ix.
Finance
Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." [...] The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.
Benjamin Graham, World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

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