Moduły Master of Business in Banking & Finance:

1. Management Accounting 30 + 20 (praca własna)
2. Corporate Finance 30 + 20 (praca własna)
3. Bank Management 16 + 10 (praca własna)
4. Company valuation and Real Estate valuation 30 + 20 (praca własna)
5. International Financial Organizations and Project Financing 16 + 10 (praca własna)
6. International Banking 14 + 10 (praca własna)
7. International Finance 30 + 20 (praca własna)
8. Lending and Creditworthiness Analysis 14 + 10 (praca własna)
9. MBA Thesis 50
10. Wyjazd dydaktyczny w Polsce 20
11. Study trip Sweden - wyjazd dydaktyczny do Sztokholmu 30   

Liczba godzin w programie 400

MBA in Banking & Finance – opis programu studiów

1. Management Accounting
   
   • The Aim of the Course - The course covers the main aspects of accounting relevant for the different companies. Its main focus is on the analysis of accounting information for corporate decision-making. Through the series of case studies based on the experience of some companies students get knowledge of how the companies plan, control, and analyze their expenses and earnings. The course will focus on the use of accounting as a tool for decision-making and problem solving through the use of analytical, creative and critical thinking. The objective of the course is not to memorise accounting rules and perform “bookkeeping”. Rather, the focus is on decision making, processes and consequences.
   • Having Taken the Course the Students Should
     Understand: main concepts and methods of managerial accounting.
     Be able to: apply the managerial accounting tools such as costs description, valuation, forecasting, controlling, pricing, program planning, and decision making.
     Be familiar with: typology of costs and its use for different purposes; different methods of manufacturing accounting and their application; budgeting including flexible budgets and standard costing; variable costing for special decisions making; responsibility accounting providing effective planning and control.
2. Corporate Finance
   
   • The Aim of the Course - The objective of the course is to give the students basic concepts of corporate finance: structure of capital, concept of discounted cash flow, financing and capital decisions, principles of portfolio selection, special characteristics of money market instruments, bonds, shares, options, swaps and other capital market objects, different approaches to valuation of risk and return.
   • Having taken the course the students should
     Understand: principals of capital market structure, main models of capital valuation, major types of financial instruments and principals of corporate finance management, principles of portfolio management.
     Be able to: evaluate main financial instruments, take investment decisions (including portfolio formation), perform the comparative analysis of capital structure.
3. Bank Management and International Banking
   
   • The main objectives of the course - The objective of the course is to give the students:
     • core principals and case studies in International banking regulation and supervision and Bank Management.
     • understanding how the International Banking system co-operates and combines the International Financial Markets.
     To provide insights into issues in bank management, and also to explicate the interplay between these issues in concrete managerial problems. This knowledge should be applied of specific managerial problems within the Polish financial services sector.
   • Having taken the course the students should
     Understand: main tendency in modern banking development, new pillars of Basel committee recommendation for bank supervision, methods and models of analyzing bank financial reports and evaluation of bank performance and probability of failure, problems that are faced in Bank Management and practice of banking activity on retail market.
     Be able to: analyze banks financial reports and calculate main financial ratios, explain the general tendency of retail banking, manage the bank portfolio, make asset-liabilities management, manage the risks in banking etc.
     Be familiar with: retail banking, management of risks in banking, financial statements of bank, capital adequacy ratio calculating, and money laundering prevention.
4. Company Valuation and Real Estate Valuation
   
   • The main objective of the course - The objective of the course is to present to the students the theory and methods of company valuation (contemporary Western and Polish practices). Also the application of relevant valuation methods in operational and strategic management is important.
   • Having taken the course the students should
     Understand: main concepts and methods of company valuation, variables used in calculations.
     Be able to: choose an appropriate valuation method in accordance with the set task and external environment; define parameters necessary for calculations (planning horizon, future forecasts, cost of capital, etc.); use the standard sources of information needed for practical valuation of business in Poland.
     Be familiar with: valuation theory and its place in management; major characteristics of various valuation methods; analysis of internal and external company opportunities; valuation methods used in operational and strategic management, and their applied characteristics (complicated business structures, mergers and acquisitions); Poland valuation practice.
5. International Finance Organisations and Project Finance
   
   • The main objective of the course - The objective of the course is to give the students basic theory and practice of international finance organisations (IFO) activities including crediting of public and private sectors. The course shows the financial issues of a corporate project financing; requirements and preferences of the basic international financial sponsors and creditors; corporate project managers’ ways to meet those requirements; project capital valuation and management; cash flow monitoring principles.
   • Having taken the course the students should
     Understand: main concepts and theories of international economics, international economic relations and organisations dealing with credit and finance; the logic of international finance organisations activities; principles and conditions of the credits IFO are offering; the major ways of project financing from various resources.
     Be able to: compare different types of IFO (intergovernmental and private, global and regional, permanent and ad hoc) and the role they play in international credit and finance; evaluate interest rates, guarantees, durations, currency and other credit conditions offered by the different types of IFO; calculate the efficiency of borrowings from different types of IFO; prove and monitor the project financial consistency and risk-sustainability.
     Be familiar with: international monetary system regulation evolution and its role in IFO development; structure, basic principles, and characteristics of leading IFO (IMF, IBRD, IFC, other World Bank organisations, EBRD, etc.); credit mechanism of the leading IFO and its’ specific features; analysis of the efficiency of borrowings from different types of IFO; euro banks’ syndicates on international securities and euro credits market; international and Polish practice of borrowings on international securities and eurocurrency market; basic principles of the project finance evaluation and presentation, major documents used in the practice, classes of financial sponsors and supporters and their habits, requirements, and financial instruments, appropriate legal formations and corporate project monitoring techniques.
6. International Finance
   
   • The main objective of the course - The goal of this discipline is to arm the students with basic theories in international finance and their application for the practice of financial market professionals and corporate managers.
   • Having taken the course the students should
     Understand: theories of financial markets behavior and parity conditions in international finance, modern financial system architecture, fundamentals of currency forecasting; principles and logic of international corporate finance decision making.
     Be able to: see the importance of international financial markets and institutions for business; to identify corporate management goals; to calculate main relationship between leading indicators of financial markets (exchange rates, interest rates, stock indecies); to consider basic market strategies (arbitrage, speculation, hedging).
     Be familiar with: sources for the international fundraising; with evaluation approaches for different financing tools in money and capital markets; with criteria for alternative choises; with structure and principles of business portfolio investments; with foundations of exchange rates anticipation for decision making; with currency risk management, based on instruments of financial markets.
7. Lending And Creditworthiness Analysis
   
   • The main objective of the course - The objective of the course is to give the students basic theory and practice of lending process in a bank and creditworthiness analysis. After the course participants should have good knowledge in how to analyse credit proposals from firms and business groups, especially as to:
     • the business environment of a firm or a group,
     • the use of cash flow analysis and financial key ratios,
     • comparing accounting figures with the calculations of new projects,
     • analysis of group accounting and strategic changes of groups,
     • using techniques for valuation of equity of unquoted firms,
     • handling mergers, large business groups, foreign direct investments,
     • handling credits in special cases as crises, turnarounds and bankruptcies.
   • Having taken the course the students should
     Understand: main concepts, principles and instruments of lending, classification, forms of lending, problems and risks, that are faced in banks practice, organisation of bank lending and creditworthiness analyses, methods of assessment of the borrower’s business.
     Be able to: analyse the borrower’s business financial statements and evaluate securing collateral, analyse credit proposals and financial reports of potential borrowers, produce analysis of risks of lender, calculate and interpret main financial ratios, make cash flow calculation and cash flow analysis, measure liquidity and profitability of a firm, produce monitoring and control of borrowers.
     Be familiar with: loan process, system of credit ratings, different methods and instruments of bank risk management in case of lending, modern trend in creditworthiness analysis in Poland.