Warsaw, Poland

Finance and Accounting

Bachelor's

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⇑Finance and Accounting at Merito Warszawa

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: economy and administration

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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University website: www.merito.pl/english/warszawa

⇑Why study Finance and Accounting at WSB Merito University in Warsaw?

Dlaczego warto studiować w Merito Warszawa

Why study it:

Programme: from economic theory to financial tools
Specialisation: two directions to choose from
Placements: workshops with real software
Qualifications: a start towards ACCA and CFA
After graduation: analyst, adviser or banker

WSB Merito University in Warsaw teaches Finance and Accounting in English as a bachelor's programme of six semesters, held in the Mokotów district and available full-time or in the hybrid mode. It is meant for school-leavers who enjoy working with figures, want to judge how healthy a company is, and may later aim at international finance qualifications.

Programme: from economic theory to financial tools

The early semesters lay an economic and mathematical base, and the plan then turns to the instruments of finance:

microeconomics and macroeconomics, studied alongside mathematics
statistics and econometrics, which teach you to read data critically
corporate finance and the basics of financial accounting
banking and public finance
an introduction to law, so that you understand the rules firms work within

Specialisation: two directions to choose from

Banking and Financial Innovations or Corporate Finance – you commit to one of these two specialisations. Specialist classes include quantitative analysis of markets and investments, economic and financial analysis, and civil and commercial law.

Placements: workshops with real software

You get to know specialist finance software such as Sage Symfonia, which firms and accounting offices use daily, and you practise producing financial documents and keeping their records.

Group projects built on genuine business problems, market simulations and case studies make up much of the teaching, and some lectures are given by practitioners. A work placement is part of the plan.

Qualifications: a start towards ACCA and CFA

International certificates

Named in the programmeACCA and CFA
What the course doesprepares you to sit professional exams of this kind
Why it matterssuch qualifications raise your value on the job market

After graduation: analyst, adviser or banker

With a bachelor's degree you can become a financial analyst who judges whether a project or an investment pays off. A job as an accountant or an accounting specialist keeps a firm in line with regulations, while a tax adviser helps companies manage their obligations. You may also advise clients on investment strategies, join a bank as a credit or investment specialist who weighs risk and manages portfolios, or work in corporate finance, looking after working capital and the analysis of results.

Based on the programme pages at merito.pl.

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⇑Definitions and quotes

Accounting

Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. The modern field was established by the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in 1494. Accounting, which has been called the "language of business", measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. The terms "accounting" and "financial reporting" are often used as synonyms.

Wikipedia

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.

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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.

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Accounting

These experiences are not 'religious' in the ordinary sense. They are natural, and can be studied naturally. They are not 'ineffable' in the sense the sense of incommunicable by language. Maslow also came to believe that they are far commoner than one might expect, that many people tend to suppress them, to ignore them, and certain people seem actually afraid of them, as if they were somehow feminine, illogical, dangerous. 'One sees such attitudes more often in engineers, in mathematicians, in analytic philosophers, in book keepers and accountants, and generally in obsessional people'.
The peak experience tends to be a kind of bubbling-over of delight, a moment of pure happiness. 'For instance, a young mother scurrying around her kitchen and getting breakfast for her husband and young children. The sun was streaming in, the children clean and nicely dressed, were chattering as they ate. The husband was casually playing with the children: but as she looked at them she was suddenly so overwhelmed with their beauty and her great love for them, and her feeling of good fortune, that she went into a peak experience . . .

Colin Wilson in New Pathways In Psychology, p. 17

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Accounting

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

Kenneth Boulding (1958, p. 95) as cited in: Edward Stamp, Michael J. Mumford, Ken V. Peasnell (1993) Philosophical Perspectives on Accounting. p. 147.

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