Bydgoszcz, Poland

Finance and Accounting

Bachelor's
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⇑Finance and Accounting at Merito Bydgoszcz

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

Dlaczego warto studiować w Merito Bydgoszcz
Why study it:

Finance and Accounting at WSB Merito University in Bydgoszcz is a six-semester bachelor's programme taught in English, with full-time classes on weekdays and a hybrid format that mixes online and on-site sessions. It is designed for school-leavers who want to understand how money works in companies and on the market.

Programme: analysis, cost accounting and your own business

You learn to analyse financial and economic phenomena, which helps you understand how money moves through firms and markets. You also learn to assess a company's financial position, so you can weigh up risk and profit with more confidence, and you find out how to launch a business of your own, from the first idea to the first invoices. Throughout, you work with modern tools and software that are used in real business.

Core classes include financial analysis, financial accounting, corporate finance, and the basics of cost accounting and management accounting. Further subjects cover banking, insurance, taxes in business activity, simplified forms of bookkeeping, public finance, international finance and contracts in business dealings. A business game rounds off the list.

Specialisation: one specialisation

One specialisation is available: Accounting and Corporate Finance.

Placements: practitioners, projects and placements

Many classes are led by practitioners from banks, companies and public offices, so you learn from people who do the work they describe. Teaching relies on group projects built around real business problems, simulations of market decisions and case studies of real situations. You also gain access to internships and study visits at employers, which gives you experience for your CV before you graduate. If you already work in a job related to your field, your placement can be credited on that basis, and you have a chance of a paid internship.

After graduation: where graduates work

Graduates can look for jobs such as:

  • accountant in the finance department of a company or corporation, handling documentation, cost records and balance sheets
  • specialist in a bank or financial institution, drawing on financial data analysis, credit, investment and customer service
  • tax or public-finance specialist in a tax office or public administration
  • auditor or accountant in an audit firm or accounting office, preparing reports and supporting company control
  • analyst in financial analysis or controlling, preparing data behind key strategic decisions
  • owner of an accounting office or advisory business offering finance, tax and management services

Based on the programme pages at merito.pl.

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

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You earn some money from a summer job. What do you do with it?

2. How do you feel about maths?

3. A friend’s small business is losing money, even though sales look good. What would you want to check?

4. How do you feel about detailed work where a single mistake changes the result?

5. Classes, case studies and exams are in English, with students from different countries. How does that sound?

6. What’s your relationship with spreadsheets?

7. Shares, bonds and interest rates come up in the news. How do you react?

8. You find a mistake in the accounts for a class trip. What do you do?

9. Would you like a job analysing company results, auditing accounts or advising on investments?

10. What motivates you most to study 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
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
Accounting
There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.
Andrew Tobias Chapter 2, By Popular Demand: A very Short Chapter On Insurance Accounting, p. 26.

Contact:

Fordońska 74 str.
85-719 Bydgoszcz
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