Warsaw, Poland

Corporate Finance
(field of studies: Finance)

Finanse przedsiębiorstw

Bachelor's

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⇑Corporate Finance at ARŁ

Field of studies: Finance

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: economy and administration

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

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University website: www.lazarski.pl/en

⇑Why choose the Corporate Finance specialisation at Lazarski University in Warsaw?

Dlaczego warto studiować w Akademii Łazarskiego w Warszawie

Why study it:

Programme: from managing assets to a simulation game
Placements: internships and business partners
After graduation: from analyst to CFO

Corporate Finance is a specialisation within the Finance programme at Lazarski University in Warsaw, taught in English over three years of full-time bachelor's studies. It is for you if you want to solve complex financial problems, manage a company's financial infrastructure and perhaps one day become a chief financial officer.

Programme: from managing assets to a simulation game

The programme follows the logic of running a company's finances:

you learn to manage assets, liabilities and equity so that a company reaches its full profit-generating potential
you evaluate and select projects, including the ethical side of corporate finance
you learn to raise funds from lenders, investors and public institutions
you analyse companies, from liquidity and profitability to solvency, efficiency and valuation
your studies end with simulation game classes in which you make decisions about running a business

Placements: internships and business partners

The final year includes internships alongside project writing seminars. Business partners and events are described as the pillars of the programme: the faculty regularly holds events, workshops, contests and consulting projects with partners such as Citi, ING and Deloitte, as well as Quinnipiac University in the United States. Optional courses cover topics such as the role of finance in business management and current issues in finance.

After graduation: from analyst to CFO

Graduates can work, for example, as:

corporate finance specialist or manager
finance project manager
finance controller
financial or investment analyst
international finance specialist
a member of management staff, with the CFO role as a long-term goal

Did you know? The programme deliberately limits theory to what is necessary and puts the emphasis on practical skills that the lecturers themselves use in business every day.

Based on the programme pages at lazarski.pl.

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

⇑Definitions and quotes

Corporate Finance

Corporate finance is the area of finance dealing with the sources of funding and the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize or increase shareholder value. Although it is in principle different from managerial finance which studies the financial management of all firms, rather than corporations alone, the main concepts in the study of corporate finance are applicable to the financial problems of all kinds of firms.

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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 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)

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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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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)

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