About the department

The Department of Financial and Investment Management was established on the basis of the Faculty “Higher School of Management” of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and bases its work on applied knowledge components of educational programs.

The priority of the Department is the formation of a theoretical basis for the professional design of an alumnus of a financial and investment profile, followed by strategic practical implementation of acquired skills in a real business environment. This priority is specified by taking into account in the discipline programs the requirements for the skills of financial specialists from the international qualification programs: ACCA, CIMA, CFA, CMA.

The educational programs of the Department meet the requirements of relevance and complexity and are designed taking into account transnational educational trends, integrating trends towards the fusion of theory and practice.

The Department provides an opportunity for students to test their acquired skills in practice, and also prepares students for interviews and tests in well-known international and Russian companies as part of extracurricular activities.

The Department offers the following higher education programs:

• Financial Management — profile within the Management concentration (Bachelor’s level),
• Business Administration in Finance / Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance — profile within the Management concentration (Bachelor’s level) EN,
• Business Strategy and Finance — Master’s degree program within the Management concentration,
• Entrepreneurial Finance — Master’s degree program within the Management concentration EN.

Students of the Department of Financial and Investment Management programs acquire solid knowledge, skills and abilities in the following areas:

• Diagnosing the company’s potential,
• Improving the efficiency of business management,
• Minimization of the company’s risks in the course of business,
• Preparation of the company and its implementation, support of the IPO procedure;
• Strategic business development based on financial and investment management tools.

The functioning of the Department of Financial and Investment Management is permeated with the ideas of cooperation with educational and business subjects, interactivity, focusing on the student as the main integral force and meaning of all the Department of Financial and Investment Management activities.

Characteristics of the Department of Financial and Investment Management in educational activities:

1. The educational programs focus on approaches and methods of financial justification of management decisions in business operating in modern conditions, including the development of the economy of shared consumption and digitalization:

   • Identification of problems in solving the tasks of achieving the effectiveness of business activity, managing its value and choosing business growth strategies,
   • Development of alternatives to financial and investment solutions, their evaluation, selection, implementation of the solution and its verification,
   • Study of technologies and methods of making financial and investment decisions, their possibilities and limits, effectiveness and efficiency, consequences,
   • Studying the peculiarities of the implementation of value-based management concepts, principles of behavioral economics for the modern companies’ purpose of organizational design of the financial and investment management system,
   • Diagnosis of management risks in financial and investment management, methods of their assessment, methods of their reduction, approaches to their management,
   • Development of an effective control system over the implementation of financial and investment decisions,
2. Current concentrations of educational programs carried out at all levels of higher and secondary education in Russian and English, considering transdisciplinarity:

In research and expert activity:

• Development of research areas: Financial and non-financial determinants of business value, theory and methodology of corporate finance, investment management strategies in the real sector of the economy, methodology and indicators for measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization, development of corporate financial management in Russia and countries with emerging capital markets, investment management in the economy of shared consumption,
• Organizing forums, conferences, round tables on financial and investment management issues,
• Expert and consulting activities in the following concentrations: Development of methodology and positioning of the national effectiveness ranking of companies’ financial and investment management, transformation of the architecture of companies’ financial and investment management taking into account technological realities, etc,

In the area of implemented approaches to training and applied educational technologies:

• Deepening of the individualization of the educational path,
• Flexible educational profiles, educational programs that allow alumni to demonstrate knowledge from various industries based on transdisciplinarity (management, financial management, investment management, entrepreneurship, psychology, law, technology, etc.),
• A wide range of educational technologies used, such as programmed, developmental, problem-based, personality-oriented, productive learning; business, organizational and activity, imitation, role-playing, utopian games, situational analysis, brainstorming, debate, effective communication.