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  • ‘International Business: Taxation and Analytics (in English)’

    • Full-time
    • 4 years
    • EN
    • 1,2 year - 450 000 RUB | 3,4 year - 450 000 RUB
  • Entrance exams

    • Maths
    • Foreign language (English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese)

Program description

An international English-language program aims to train economists for industry 4.0 and the digital economy with knowledge of a second foreign language and programming languages R and Python, technologies and algorithms for using machine learning and artificial intelligence, cluster analysis, neural and hybrid fuzzy networks of big data group processing to predict the main business indicators of international companies.

In the process of mastering the program, students are given the opportunity to choose an educational trajectory in the FOREIGN ECONOMIC SPHERE that corresponds to their professional goals and interests:

The FOREIGN TRADE trajectory of training is aimed at training international economists who are able to:

  • conduct business in the field of international trade, form commercial proposals and draft foreign trade contracts taking into account tax and customs consequences;
  • carry out structuring and support of foreign trade transactions taking into account the emerging responsibilities for the payment of taxes, customs duties and commercial business conditions, analytically justifying the proposed solutions using financial data analysis and visualization technologies in R and Python;
  • develop the company's sales policy and determine the methods of promoting goods, to carry out transport and logistics support for international deliveries, choosing the optimal customs regimes and using predictive business analytics and modeling tools based on big data to justify decisions.

The ANALYTICAL training trajectory is aimed at training international financial and business analysts capable of:

  • analyzing the profitability of financial instruments and cross-border investment projects, modeling and evaluating related financial risks based on big data analysis and machine learning with elements of artificial intelligence;
  • substantiating investment decisions in the international financial market using cluster analysis, neural and hybrid fuzzy networks of big data group processing;
  • maintaining financial and management accounting according to national and international standards, interpreting financial, corporate and other information for making financial, investment and management decisions in international companies.

INTERNATIONAL FEATURES of the program:

  • From the 1st year studies, students have classes of a second foreign language (German, French, Spanish, Chinese) with a total volume of up to 936 hours;
  • The opportunity to join study abroad programs, to obtain knowledge and experience from invited foreign experts;
  • The opportunity to join a double-degree program with the University of Grenoble Alpes (France);
  • The opportunity to receive additional diplomas “Finance and Business Management" (ACCA) and “Translator in the Field of Professional Communication".

Accreditation and Partners

Concentrations

International Trade and Taxation

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About the concentration:

We train specialists capable of conducting business in the field of international trade, preparing drafts of foreign trade contracts taking into account tax and customs duties, managing supply chains and providing transport and logistics support for foreign trade contracts using optimal customs procedures.

Key disciplines of the concentration:

  • International Trade and Global Goods and Services Markets;
  • International Trade Contracts: Conditions and Tax Consequences;
  • Transfer Pricing;
  • International Trade Customs Regulation;
  • IFRS;
  • International Marketing;
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management;
  • International Taxation;
  • Tax and Commercial Structuring of International Supplies;
  • International Business Engineering.

Accounting and Financial Analysis

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About the concentration:

Training of specialists capable of conducting accounting (financial) and management accounting in an international company according to national and international standards, performing financial and investment analysis, assessing and modeling risks of financial instruments and investment projects using the languages R and Python.

Key disciplines of the concentration:

  • International Financial Accounting;
  • IFRS;
  • Managerial Accounting and Analysis;
  • Quantitative Financial and Investment Analysis;
  • Financial Data Analysis and Visualization Technologies in R and Python;
  • International Financial Statement Analysis;
  • Financial Instrument and Investment Project Analysis;
  • Financial Risk Analysis.

Program managers

Overchuk Alexey Logvinovich

  • PhD in Economics.
  • Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Acting State Adviser of the Russian Federation, 2nd class.

Borisov Oleg Igorevich

  • PhD in Economics, Associate Professor.
  • Deputy Dean for Academic and Educational Work.
  • Has more than 10 years of experience in the field of taxation of banks, professional participants in the securities market, international taxation, and business consulting.

Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to

  • Conduct international negotiations and prepare draft foreign trade contracts, taking into account tax and customs consequences
  • Manage supply chains, carry out tax and commercial structuring of international supplies
  • Carry out transport and logistics support of international deliveries using optimal customs procedures
  • Read and understand international financial and management reporting
  • Assess and model the risks of financial instruments and investment projects using the R and Python languages
  • Carry out financial and investment analysis of the activities of international companies

Key disciplines of the concentration

International Business

Students study the main features of international business, the stages of its evolution, the impact of globalization processes on the development of international business, the problems of its formation and development.

Financial Risk Analysis

Students gain the skills to identify, assess and track the level of financial risks based on the analysis of the company’s reporting, learn to analyze and control the financial condition of the business.

Second Foreign Language

Students study a second foreign language (German, French, Spanish, Chinese) from the first year of their studies. A group of 4 disciplines with a total volume of up to 936 hours allows you to study business, special, and professional vocabulary as well as to prepare for international exams.

Foreign Trade Contracts: Practice of Concluding and Tax Consequences

Students study the procedure for negotiating and concluding foreign economic transactions, legal regulation and tax consequences of international purchase and sale agreements, trade and intermediary and service agreements, international transportation contracts.

Analysis of Business Performance, Financial Instruments and Projects

Three disciplines that develop students’ skills in analyzing and forecasting future financial indicators of the company, assessing the quality of investments in various financial instruments and investment projects, forecasting changes in investment and information markets, and drawing up analytical conclusions.

Financial Data Analysis and Visualization Technologies in R and Python

The R and Python languages are industry standards for data analysis. Students learn how to use analytical tools, develop programming skills and create a strong practical base for data analysis and presentation, as well as get acquainted with machine learning tasks and algorithms

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

The discipline reveals the order of organizing logistics systems, the typology of supply chains, logistics optimization, features of the organization of international cargo transportation by different modes of transport and multimodal transportation.

Quantitative Financial and Investment Analysis

Students master the methods necessary for informed management decision-making on business development, quantitative assessment of investment and innovation activities, efficiency and achievability of the final result.

International Financial Accounting and Reporting

Students acquire the skills of reflecting in the accounting and reporting of stocks income and expenses, non-current assets, cash flows, organization of accounting and reporting according to international standards.

Tax and Commercial Structuring of International Supplies

Students are trained to manage production-distribution chains in cross-border companies, as well as to structure international supplies through the EAEU, the EU and Asia, taking into account taxes and customs payments to be paid.

Customs Regulation of International Trade

The discipline is aimed at studying the international legal regulation of customs operations and procedures, rules for determining the country of origin of goods, as well as tariff benefits, preferences, and methods of non-tariff regulation of foreign trade activities.

International Taxation

Basic concepts and conceptual foundations of international taxation. The territorial principle of taxation and the principle of residency in the system of international tax relations. Double taxation and methods of its elimination.

Career

Our graduates are specialists in foreign economic activities, they supervise all operations related to the foreign economic activity of the company, taking into account taxes and customs duties payable. These are economists responsible for optimizing purchases or sales (export-import operations), tax and commercial structuring of foreign trade activities, its transport and logistics support and customs clearance. Foreign trade specialists are extremely in demand in the labor market, their incomes are consistently high.

Graduates of the concentration “Accounting and Financial Analysis” are highly qualified analysts with technical skills in analyzing large amounts of data using the R and Python languages, understanding the economics of industries and their business models. These are specialists are employed by expert analytical services (centers of economic analysis, public sector, public organizations), rating agencies, the financial sector (banks, broker-dealer companies, management companies, stock exchanges, etc.), consulting, IT industry, the real sector of the economy (industry, construction, etc.).

Organizations where you can find a job

Unique advantages of the program

The opportunity to study at the best foreign universities as part of internships and student exchange programs;

High demand for graduates in the labor market: graduates are in demand in leading foreign trade and analytical companies;

The opportunity to receive a second ACCA diploma in Finance and Business Management;

The opportunity to receive a second diploma “Translator in the Field of Professional Communication”.