Warsaw, Poland

Finance and Accounting

Master's
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⇑Finance and Accounting at SGGW

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: www.sggw.edu.pl/en

⇑Why study Finance and Accounting (Master's) at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW?

Dlaczego warto studiować w Szkole Głównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
Why study it:

Finance and Accounting at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW is a two-year (four-semester) master's programme taught entirely in English. It suits you if you want to build advanced knowledge of finance and accounting, banks and financial institutions, and to analyse the economic and financial situation of organisations, including those in the food economy.

Programme: accounting, banking and financial tools

In the first semesters you work with managerial accounting, cost accounting, tax accounting and financial reporting, alongside advanced financial accounting. You study controlling in banks, credit institutions management, monetary policy, financial law and IT systems in financial institutions. The quantitative side includes risk theory, forecasting and simulations, and dynamic and financial econometrics. Later you move on to investment portfolio, international finance, financial engineering and financial consulting, and finally to international accounting and contemporary theories in finance. In the last year you also choose specialisation subjects from the faculty's offer and complete a master's thesis prepared in a diploma seminar.

Languages: English-taught, with a foreign language class

The whole programme is taught in English, and you additionally take a foreign language class and one elective subject delivered in a foreign language, so you practise professional vocabulary in more than one language and get used to working in an international environment.

After graduation: from banks to consulting

Graduates are prepared to work in:

  • finance and accounting departments
  • financial institutions, banks and stock exchanges
  • insurance companies and brokerage houses
  • accounting firms and consulting agencies
  • agribusiness enterprises and food economy units
  • public administration and research institutions

Did you know? A distinguishing feature of the graduates is their fluent knowledge of how companies and economic entities work in the finance sector of agribusiness.

Based on the programme pages at sggw.edu.pl and the SGGW syllabus.

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

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Reviewing a company’s financial statements, you see revenue growing much faster than operating cash flow. What do you do?

2. How do you approach international financial reporting standards?

3. A finance director asks you to build a valuation model for a possible acquisition. How do you feel?

4. During an audit, a manager pressures you to overlook an unusual transaction. What do you do?

5. The programme is taught in English, and your classmates are graduates from different countries and financial systems. How do you see that?

6. Would you like to work towards an international professional qualification in accounting or investment alongside your degree?

7. How do you feel about using data analytics and automation in finance?

8. A company must choose between financing its expansion with debt or by issuing new shares. How do you approach it?

9. Would you like to lead a finance team or run a company’s budgeting process?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree 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.
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)
Accounting
It’s simply to say that managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
Warren Buffett 1982 Chairman's Letter
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

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