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  • ‘Economics and Finance of High-Tech Companies’

    • Full-time
    • 2 years
    • RU
    • 400 000 RUB
  • Entrance exams

    • Economic Theory
    • Foreign language (English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish)

Program description

The program is aimed at training a new generation of economists with competencies corresponding to the current level of international requirements in the field of corporate finance, valuation, asset, and business management, ensuring financial risk management processes. The program allows you to gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the application of advanced methods of high-tech companies’ financial management, to get to know financial technologies and information databases for the effective solution of professional tasks. Graduates of the program receive stable skills in managing production processes, gain incentives for professional personal growth, as well as for continuous professional development and competence, which in the future will provide them with an integral competitive advantage in the labor market in accordance with professional standards “Specialist in Financial Consulting”, “Specialist in Evaluation Activities”, “Specialist in Management Risks”, etc.

Accreditation and Partners

Program managers

Zavyalov Igor Nikolaevich

  • Program Manager.
  • Deputy General Director for Financial Affairs of the State Corporation for the Promotion of the Development, Production and Export of High-Tech Industrial Products Rostec.

Pashtova Lelya Germanovna

  • Doctor of Economics, Professor.
  • Conducts research and development at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Winner of competitions for the best methodological support of the educational process. Academician of the Adyghe International Academy of Sciences. Scientific Advisor of a PhD in Economics as well as more than 50 graduate students. Supervises graduate students. 
  • The experience of scientific and pedagogical work is more than 30 years; she has been teaching at the FinU for more than 6 years. Supervises the disciplines “Financial Planning and Forecasting" and “Corporate Finance (Advanced Level)".

Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to

  • Evaluate and rank the needs of various stakeholders’ groups, analytically substantiate the required parameters and measures to meet them, develop business models for innovative development of high-tech companies.
  • Organize and carry out analytical work, manage the preparation and implementation of innovative projects, plan and forecast the main financial and economic performance indicators.
  • Develop measures aimed at ensuring effective risk-oriented management of organizations in the field of high technologies, form vertically integrated risk management systems taking into account the specifics of the main activity.
  • Manage the production and marketing activities of high-tech companies using the information environment of organizations.
  • Use asset valuation tools to solve financial and economic problems of high-tech companies.
  • Identify and measure business risks, conceptually form a corporate risk management system for high-tech companies in the digital economy.

Key disciplines of the concentration

Economics and Finance of High-Tech Industrial Organizations

The discipline is aimed to ensure the formation of competencies in the field of long-term economic development strategy and financial stability of high-tech companies, to develop professional skills in the field of economic and financial management of industrial organizations with a high share of innovations and technologies in assets.

Business Analytics and Analysis of Financial and Economic Activities

The discipline will allow you to master the quantitative expression methods of the economic processes and phenomena interrelations, as well as analyzing financial information methods and forecasting the business processes development in the field of financial management of the organization.

Intellectual Capital of Corporations: Assessment and Management

The discipline is aimed at forming the foundations of intangible assets’ management, production and studying the features of intellectual capital and production process technologies in knowledge-intensive and high-tech industries. 

Career

During economic transformation and the development of the digital economy, there is an increasing need for specialists of a new generation in the field of corporate finance management, assessment of technological assets and financial risk management in the field of high technologies. The need is increasing exponentially and exists in various institutional structures: in the analytical, economic, financial, investment services of high-tech companies; in the analytical departments of investment management companies; in private equity funds, investment departments and corporate finance departments of banks; in consulting companies engaged in strategic, financial and innovative consulting, including value consulting; in companies engaged in the evaluation of venture projects and technological assets.

Organizations where you can find a job

Unique advantages of the program

The Master’s degree program is aimed to fully respond to the new economic challenges referred to the FinU and higher education in Russia as a whole.

The program is aimed at successfully competing in the international market of educational programs, as well as meeting the demand for qualified personnel in high-tech industries

The program implementation will create conditions for training personnel with research, analytical and technological competencies in the field of innovation for the needs of the Russian digital economy.

Our students will have new professional competencies that have no analogues in classical higher economic education in Russia.

Our students will have an internship at the State Corporation for the Promotion of the Development, Production and Export of High-Tech Industrial Products Rostec.