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Program description

Dear friends!

The Faculty of Finance is recruiting for the scientific and educational master’s degree program “State Financial Control, Management and Audit in the Digital Economy” as part of the signed Protocol of Intent and Cooperation Roadmap with the University of MSU-PPI in Shenzhen (China) for the purposes of scientific, educational and cultural relations.

MSU-PPI is the first Russian-Chinese university created to implement the strategic partnership between Russia and China. The key task of the joint educational project is recognized as the training of modern personnel in Russia and China based on the best educational programs designed to effectively participate in the implementation of economic projects of the two countries in the Asia-Pacific region, in the cultural dialogue development and strengthening mutual understanding between the people of Russia and China.

Admission to the Russian-Chinese University is an opportunity to study in the fastest growing city in the world with the best teachers, to receive a world-class education, double-degree diplomas from two universities, mastering Chinese, English and Russian.

The master’s degree program is implemented in cooperation with the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, the Federal Treasury, the Control Accounts Chamber of Moscow, the Main Control Directorate of Moscow and other state authorities.

In cooperation, students can continue their studies at the University of MSU-PPI with double-degree diplomas – Russian and Chinese (diplomas of the FinU and of the University of MSU-PPI in Shenzhen). Tuition is paid separately in accordance with the cost set by the host university.

 

Accreditation and Partners

Program managers

Isaev Eli Abubakarovich

  • Doctor of Economics
  • Head of the Department “Financial Control and Treasury"
  • Head of the profile “State Financial Control"
  • Head of the master's degree program “State Financial Control, Management and Audit in Digital Economy"
  • Full State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 2nd class
  • Honorary Economist of the Russian Federation
  • Deputy Head of the Federal Treasury

Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to

  • Carry out organizational and methodological, informational, and analytical, accounting and analytical support of state financial control (audit)
  • Develop regulatory legal acts, standards, methodological documents on the organization of expert-analytical and control activities of a public sector economic entity
  • Identify, qualify, and assess risks and violations in the financial and budgetary sphere
  • Develop and apply methodological tools for assessing the effectiveness of public resources’ use
  • Generate and analyze statistical, operational, and technical, accounting, control, and analytical information
  • Carry out fundamental and applied research, innovative and consulting activities
  • Apply digital SMART control technologies
  • Use result-oriented, system-oriented, and problem-oriented approaches to the organization and performance audit

Key disciplines of the concentration

Audit of Sustainable Development Goals

The discipline is aimed at studying the audit of the Sustainable Development Goals, practical skills for the formation of a strategic approach to public audit to support national priorities by providing recommendations to public authorities responsible for the Sustainable Development Goals’ implementation, and promoting their effective, transparent, and informative activities.

Performance Audit, Methodology and Tools

The discipline covers audit efficiency, methodology and tools for its implementation, modern rules, methods, and procedures for auditing the effectiveness of public resources’ use.

Financial Control Methodology

The discipline is aimed at the theoretical, organizational, and methodological knowledge formation and practical skills of the financial control institutional structure (environment), tax control, customs control, currency control, state financial control, independent financial control (audit), banking, insurance supervision and supervision in the field of financial markets.

Corporate Audit

The discipline is aimed at developing professional skills for a comprehensive study of the organizations’ financial and operational activities, their financial condition, as well as the compliance assessment with the corporate governance procedures set out in internal documents with the requirements of regulatory legal acts.

Environmental Audit

The discipline is aimed at the professional skills’ formation for the compliance assessment organization by an economic entity with regulatory legal requirements in the environmental protection, and the recommendations’ preparation on environmental activities.

Management Audit

Discipline covers theoretical knowledge, professional and practical skills in the analysis and evaluation of current business processes of an economic entity through the personnel-oriented approach.

Tax Audit, Methods, and Models

The discipline covers tax audit of economic entities, the relevance of the tax accounting organization, the tax reporting reliability, compliance with the tax legislation provisions. The study of the discipline is focused on getting students to work under continuous legislation reform in taxes and the taxation mechanism.

Investment Audit

The discipline provides students with theoretical knowledge and practice-oriented skills in auditing state and international investment projects implemented by external state control bodies.

Control Over Audit Organizations Activities

The discipline is aimed at the theoretical knowledge formation, professional competence, and practical skills in external quality control of audit organizations, auditors.

Career

Partner employers of the program are:

  • Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation
  • Control and accounting bodies of the Russian Federation subjects
  • Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
  • Federal Treasury of the Russian Federation
  • Federal Financial Monitoring Service
  • Federal Antimonopoly Service
  • The Main Control Department of Moscow
  • Gazprom Diagnostics JSC.

Our alumni are 100% employed and work for partner employers, as well as large economic entities, audit companies, state corporations.

We are waiting for you at our master's degree program “State Financial Control, Management and Audit in Digital Economy"!

Organizations where you can find a job

Unique advantages of the program

A unique Russian-Chinese scientific and educational project

The opportunity to study in three languages, Chinese, Russian, English, get a double-degree diploma from two universities and a world-class education

Training in-demand specialists for global development projects

Creating conditions for breakthrough discoveries and innovations

Practice-oriented partner educational program, practice in the largest Russian and Chinese corporations

Development of strategic partnership between Russia and China

Digital education ecosystem

Individual trajectory of the educational process

An effective team of like-minded people, teachers, and staff