Master in Finance
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
Key Information
Campus location
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
CZK 50,000 / per semester *
Application deadline
Request info
Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* tuition fee is 4000 EUR per academic year, payable at the beginning of each academic year. It is non-refundable.
Introduction
The program is the continuation to the Bachelor's degree programs in Finance, Accounting and Taxation, Economics and Management, Marketing and other programs of economic orientation. Candidates who have completed at least a bachelor degree program and demonstrated knowledge of English language can apply. The program is prepared as a two-year course. It is completed by the state examination and defense of the thesis. Successful graduates are awarded the master title. After completing the program, it is possible to continue in the doctoral degree study at the Faculty of Economics, VŠB-TU Ostrava or other programs of economic orientation.
Key facts
- Faculty: Faculty of Economics
- Type of Study: Follow-up Master
- Language of instruction: English
- Code of the program: N0412A050005
- Title of the program: Finance
- Regular period of the study: 2 years
- Cost: 50,000 CZK per semester
- Coordinating department: Department of Finance
- Coordinator: doc. Ing. Aleš Kresta, Ph.D.
- Keywords: valuation, finance, financial markets, corporate finance, banking
Program Outcome
Study aims
The aim of the program is to prepare highly qualified professionals who will be able to perform specialized analytical work and management functions related to financial, accounting and tax issues at the top and middle level of corporate and institutional management. The study is structured and focused so that graduates can find employment especially in financial departments and in financial management of non-financial institutions (manufacturing and trading companies), financial institutions (commercial and investment banks, investment companies, insurance companies) and the national economy (state and regional administration).
Graduate's knowledge
The basis of the study is to gain knowledge from the following areas:
- Financial management and business decision-making,
- The functioning of financial markets, commercial and investment banking, insurance, investment companies, and insurance companies,
- Financial decision-making under risk, investment decision-making, company valuation, financial modeling,
- Valuation of derivatives, management of financial portfolios,
- International finance, international financial institutions, financial systems, fiscal and tax systems.
Graduate's skills
Professional skills of the graduates will be the following:
- Application of financial models,
- Performing financial analysis,
- Determining the value of companies and projects under risk,
- Application of multi-criteria decision-making models,
- Portfolio management and modeling,
- Prediction of financial variables,
- Quantification and hedging of market risks,
- Creating investment strategies,
- Performing a comparison of tax and taxation systems.
Graduate's general competence
Program graduates will be able to:
- Decide independently and responsibly under new or changing circumstances,
- Communicate their own professional opinions to experts and the wider public in a clear and convincing way,
- Use their expertise and skills in the English language
Career Opportunities
Graduate's employment
Graduates are prepared for highly qualified positions in which they will be able to perform analytical jobs and managerial functions at the level of middle and top management of companies, banks, insurance companies, and other banking and non-banking institutions.
Hard skills
- Knowledge of financial accounting and taxes
- Financial and economic analysis of investment projects
- Application of legal/economic tools for problem-solving
- Ability to make financial decisions
- Analytical skills
- Business financial management
- Knowledge of banking
- Economic analyses of business management
- Knowledge of economics and financial management
- Application of managerial skills
- Knowledge and orientation in insurance
- Ability to manage banking institutions and companies
- Evaluation of insurance products
- Knowledge of business processes and its management
- Knowledge of financial analysis
- Knowledge of investment decisions
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Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Curriculum
Semester 1
Compulsory
- Financial decision-making under risk
- Macroeconomics B
- Mathematics in Economics
- Public Finance
- Statistics B
- Valuation and Acquisitions
Mandatory B-type elective
- Fiscal Theory and Policy
- Labor Economics
- Philosophy and Methodology of Economics
Semester 2
Compulsory
- Financial Markets II. A
- Financial models
- Insurance II.
- Microeconomics B - Intermediate Microeconomics
- Special seminar
Mandatory B-type elective
- Behavioral Economics
- Ethics in Finance
- International Monetary Integration
- Trends and Innovations in Financial Markets
Semester 3
Compulsory
- Diploma Seminar A
- Econometrics
- Financial Markets II. B
- International Finance
- Monetary Economics
Mandatory B-type elective
- Applied economic policy
- Applied quantitative finance in Python
- History of Economic Thought
- International Marketing
- Personal Finance
- Real Options Application
- Trainee practice abroad
- Valuation and Hedging of Financial Derivatives
Semester 4
Compulsory
- Diploma Seminar B
- Diploma Thesis
- Seminar on Selected Issues in Tax Theory and Practice