Finance
Bachelor's
Finance
Degree
Bachelor of Business & Management
Program length
4 years
ECTS
240
Program description
Finance program is directed to prepare future professionals in finance in terms of needed knowledge and skills to successfully kick-start their career within top-notch financial organizations, including MNCs, in Kazakhstan. This program is recognized under the ACCA and CIMA programs.
Learning outcomes
• Discussing and analyzing finance in its broad context and its interrelations with other economic activities, including the modern framework of operations and functions of markets and financial institutions.
• Performing accounting and auditing tasks; including design of an accounting system, choice of accounting policies, compliance with IFRS.
• Understanding and interpreting financial data with due diligence from sources like companies’ financial statements, securities’ markets data, and ability to integrate these interpretations into forecasting of future events and conditions to subsequently prepare due diligence, equity research, stock pitches and other reports.
• Acting as a trader and/or investor, including understanding of professional trading platforms and information providers’ platforms in order to execute educated investment decisions
• Creating efficient investment portfolios using multiple theories and investment approaches with subsequent rebalancing and re-optimization of those portfolios.
Compulsory & elective modules (courses)
Semester 1
Principles of Economics
Semester 2
Mathematics for Economics
Semester 3
Accounting
Microeconomics
Semester 4
Macroeconomics
Financial Accounting
Semester 5
Fundamentals of Financial Management
Applied Econometrics
Portfolio Management
Taxation
Cost Accounting
Audit and Assurance
Semester 6
Managerial Accounting
Corporate Finance
Financial Modelling
Equity Investments
Accounting According to IFRS
Semester 7
Financial Management
Financial Statement Analysis
Fixed Income Securities
Data Analysis in Business and Economics
Derivatives and Alternative Investments
Ethical and Professional Standards
Employability
Our students are well renowned among most MNCs
working in financial services as well as largest
domestic corporations. Our employers include top
audit and consulting companies, investment and
commercial banks (including their treasury and risk
management departments), private equity managing
companies, and others.
Program Coordinator
MSc. Ilyas Imachikov
