Gdańsk, Poland

Global Finance

Bachelor's
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⇑Global Finance at Merito Gdańsk

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

Dlaczego warto studiować w Merito Gdańsk
Why study it:

Global Finance at WSB Merito University in Gdańsk is a six-semester Bachelor's programme taught in English, full-time, in the Faculty of Business. It suits school-leavers who want to work with currencies, markets and investment decisions across borders.

Programme: money across borders

You learn how companies manage their finances in several countries, where currencies, taxes, regulations and risks differ. You also build and analyse financial models that take in exchange rates, international interest rates and other macroeconomic variables.

The curriculum covers international financial markets, modern banking systems, fiscal policy and international tax systems, together with corporate finance and international accounting standards. Capital market analysis explains how financial markets work, and foreign investment shows how investing abroad differs from investing at home, with its own risks and opportunities. You study how central banks reach monetary decisions and how growth, inflation and unemployment shape national economies. Business ethics and financial ethics teach responsible decision-making in a global setting.

Specialisation: two specialisations

Specialist track

  • Choose betweenInternational Finance and Investment Psychology
  • Specialist subjectsmanagerial economics, foreign investment, financial market instruments
  • Also on the listpsychology of investment decisions, investment risk assessment, technical analysis of financial markets

Placements: learning by doing

Hands-on teaching: group projects built around real business problems, simulated market decisions and case studies, with some lectures given by practitioners from the market.

After graduation: where graduates work

Graduates can work as:

  • a financial analyst in an investment bank, fund or insurance company, forecasting results and supporting investment decisions
  • a financial risk manager who assesses credit, market, operational and liquidity risk
  • a financial adviser helping individuals or companies with investments and retirement planning
  • a trader in securities, bonds, currencies or commodities on global markets
  • an investment banking associate preparing analyses, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and advice on raising capital
  • an international market specialist at a financial institution

Based on the programme pages at merito.pl.

⇑Test: Is Global Finance the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You hear on the news that a major currency’s exchange rate has moved sharply. What interests you?

2. You’ve saved up some money from a summer job. What do you do with it?

3. Have you ever played a stock market game or followed share prices just for fun?

4. Lectures, company reports and market analysis will be in English, and you’ll do projects in international teams. How does that sound?

5. Someone promises you a very high return with no risk at all. How do you react?

6. How do you get on with maths, especially percentages and sequences?

7. Your favourite brand announces it’s expanding into markets abroad. What goes through your mind?

8. A family member asks you to compare two car loan offers. How do you go about it?

9. What do you picture yourself doing in the future?

10. What motivates you most to study Global 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
The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.
Jean-Baptiste Say A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832) Book III, On Consumption, Chapter VIII, Section I, p. 449
Finance
The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, part I, chap. 1 (1915)
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.

Contact:

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80-266 Gdańsk
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