Structure of the study program

The study program is called Finance and Accounting. This program of basic vocational studies is harmonized with the needs of the labor market, whose main goal is to acquire applicable knowledge in the field of finance and accounting.

The study program Finance and Accounting educates professional staff who will be trained for various jobs in the field of finance and accounting. As its final outcome, it implies the acquisition of adequate applicable knowledge, skills and abilities that will enable students to work independently in the profession, as well as for further individual professional development.

The study program Finance and Accounting is structured in such a way that in the first year students are provided with fundamental knowledge in the field of general economics, management and basics of law, while in the second and third year of study they approach the study of subjects finance and financial institutions, banking, insurance, management accounting, control and audit, information systems.

Objectives of the study program

The study program Finance and Accounting, based on a combination of theoretical and professional-applied knowledge, aims to prepare and train students for independent work in the field of finance and accounting, which will enable them easier, faster and more successful integration into the real business environment.

The main goals of the study program Finance and Accounting relate to:

• Providing students with a modern study program that emphasizes the ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate key theoretical concepts and their practical application;
• Opportunity for students to direct their interests through a larger number of elective courses.

The goals of the study program Finance and Accounting are in line with the basic tasks and goals of the Blace Business School, which bases its activities on theoretical and practical training of students, with special attention paid to practical aspects and training students to get involved in solving immediately after graduation. practical problems.

The main goals of the study program Finance and Accounting relate to:

• Providing students with a modern study program that emphasizes the ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate key theoretical concepts and their practical application;
• Opportunity for students to direct their interests through a larger number of elective courses.

Specific objectives of the study program Finance and Accounting:

• Training students for independent work in accounting;
• Enabling students to professionally engage in activities related to financial analysis, financial management and corporate finance;
• Enabling students to manage securities and understand the valuation of financial instruments;
• Training students to perform banking operations, operations in insurance companies and other financial institutions;
• Enabling students to make decisions at the level of financial operations.

Competencies of graduate students

With the successful realization of the goals of the study program Finance and Accounting, and on the basis of adopted theoretical and professional – applied knowledge, students form general and subject – specific competencies that will enable them to adequately respond to the challenges and tasks of turbulent business environment.

General competencies that students acquire by mastering this study program are:

• Ability to analyze and synthesize;
• Ability to critique and self-criticize;
• Ability to apply knowledge in practice;
• Ability to be up to date;
• Ability for professional ethics.

Acquisition of subject-specific competencies will enable professional staff to:

• Reads financial reports of banks and other institutions;
• Solves tasks related to insurance in practice;
• Evaluates and approves loans;
• Calculates costs with cost price calculation of effects;
• It connects costs and revenues by carriers;
• Calculates and distributes business results and covers losses;
• Knows and understands the functioning of the financial sector;
• He uses information and communication technologies in his work.

Upon completion of the Finance and Accounting study program, students are expected to be able to:

• Recognize financial management opportunities;
• Recognize the functioning of the banking system in the country’s monetary policy;
• Define the importance, organization and role of the accounting information system in the field of management decision making;
• Perform legal qualification, analyze and evaluate new legal solutions, accept standards of professional ethics for the purpose of continuous professional development;
• Compile financial statements;
• Manage financial instruments in the financial market;
• Application of regulations, procedures and techniques of banking and insurance business;
• Application of International Accounting Standards in the preparation of financial statements.

Curriculum – Finance and Accounting