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⇑Bachelor in Finance and Accounting at Kozminski University

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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⇑Why study the Bachelor in Finance and Accounting at Kozminski University?

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Why study it:

The Bachelor in Finance and Accounting at Kozminski University in Warsaw is a three-year, full-time first-cycle (Bachelor's) programme taught in English. It is meant for students who want a career in corporate finance, financial markets or accounting.

Programme: finance, sustainability and digital skills

You start with management, financial accounting and microeconomics, then move on to finance subjects and your major. Sustainability is built into the syllabi, and courses in generative AI for managers and agile digital product design show you how to use AI in business decisions. Industry partners such as BNP Paribas Securities Services, Crisil, RSM Poland and AstraZeneca Pharma Poland shape course content and run guest lectures.

Specialisation: three majors to choose from

Besides the Financial Management major included in every diploma, you choose one of three:

  • Corporate Finance and Financial Markets,
  • Green Finance,
  • FinTech and Digital Transformation in Finance.

Labs: Bloomberg Finance Lab

In the Bloomberg Finance Lab you work with the professional Bloomberg database and ChatGPT tools on financial markets, risk management and trading, and can earn the BMC and ESG certificates.

Placements: internship and company visits

The curriculum includes a mandatory internship. Study visits to company headquarters and presentations on campus have recently brought students together with MDDP, RSM, Point72 and JP Morgan.

Exchanges: mobility window and double degree

The fifth semester is a “mobility window” for exchange abroad, with no programme differences to make up afterwards.

In the third year you can join a double degree programme at ISEG Lisbon, Aston University or IESEG School of Management and graduate with diplomas from both Kozminski and the partner university.

Qualifications: ACCA, CIMA, CFA and CAIA

  • exemption from seven ACCA exams: AB, MA, FA, LW, PM, FR and FM,
  • the opportunity to obtain an international management accounting diploma under Kozminski's agreement with CIMA,
  • preparation for the CFA Investment Foundations certificate,
  • access to extensive databases thanks to the university's CAIA Academic Partner status.

After graduation: corporations, financial institutions, consulting

Graduates work in banks, insurers, funds and brokerage firms, in the finance departments of international corporations and in the public sector – for example as controllers, accountants, auditors or sustainable finance analysts. You can also continue on the Master in Finance and Accounting at Kozminski.

As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme page at kozminski.edu.pl.

⇑Test: Is Bachelor in Finance and Accounting the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You get your pocket money or your first pay packet. What do you do with it?

2. You look after the money for a school club. At the end of term a small amount is missing. What do you do?

3. Do you enjoy working with tables and spreadsheets?

4. You hear that prices in the shops are rising faster than usual. What interests you?

5. In an international group, you analyse financial statements from companies in different countries and discuss them in English. How does that feel?

6. Are you the kind of person who spots small mistakes?

7. A friend wants to start a small business and asks whether the idea will pay off. How do you help?

8. Are you interested in how stock markets, loans and investments work?

9. How do you deal with rules and regulations that have to be applied very precisely?

10. What motivates you most to study Bachelor in Finance and Accounting?

⇑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.
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.
Accounting
The swift victory of the railway over the waterway resulted from organizational as well as technological innovation. Technology made possible fast, all-weather transportation; but safe, regular, reliable movement of goods and passengers, as well as the continuing maintenance and repair of locomotives, rolling stock, and track, roadbed, stations, roundhouses and other equipment, required the creation of a sizable administrative organization. It meant the employment of an administrative command of middle and top executives to monitor, evaluate, and coordinate the work of managers responsible for the day-to-day operations. It meant, too, the formulation of brand new types of internal administrative procedures and accounting and statistical controls. Hence, the operational requirements of the railroads demanded the creation of the first administrative hierarchies in American business.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. The Visible Hand (1977) p. 87.
Accounting
Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
Warren Buffett 1988 Chairman's Letter
Accounting
… without idealism, politics becomes a form of accounting, a management of purely material interests.
Ian Buruma What’s Left After 1989?

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