Lazarski University

Degree Overview

The Bachelor's degree program in the specialisation "Corporate Finance" is an ideal option for you if you want to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in managing the financial infrastructure of companies and projects, ensuring their stable cash flow and continued profitability, while managing internal and external risks.

Our curriculum covers topics such as:

• introduction to corporate finance,
• enterprise management: you will learn how to manage assets, liabilities and equity, and how to perform evaluation and project analysis,
• enterprise finance: you will gain knowledge of ethics, debt and equity of companies,
• enterprise analysis: you will learn how to analyze the liquidity, profitability, solvency and market value of companies,
• simulation game: our experienced academic staff will guide you through the decision-making process of managing a company,
• additionally, you will have the opportunity to choose optional courses, covering topics such as the role of finance in life and business, personal investments, neo-finance, building an investment portfolio and other topical issues related to finance.

Is this for you?

This specialisation is designed for students who in their business career want to become Chief Financial Officers or take positions (e.g., as project managers) responsible for ensuring that managed by them entities are financially secure and profitable, and therefore are on their way to be successful. 

What skills will you obtain?

Courses are grouped into four segments. After an introduction to corporate finance, you will learn how to manage assets, liabilities and equity of a company, so that they can achieve their highest profit-generating potential. You will then learn how to evaluate and select projects. Next, we will teach you how to procure funds from lenders, investors and public institutions, which are becoming more popular. To manage a firm or a project existing within a firm, you need to understand it; therefore, in the third segment you will be taught how to analyse companies. Your studies will end with two classes devoted to the state-of-the-art simulation game where our business-experienced staff will guide you in a decision-making process associated with managing a business. 

Who will teach you?

Our staff consists chiefly of business-experienced personnel. Therefore, we do not focus on simply teaching you the textbook (definitions, formulas etc.) beyond what is necessary; we rather focus on teaching you solid skills that our staff has been using in their real-world business activities for decades. These skills will be your selling points when applying for your dream position. Hence, most of the assignments in our program are projects based on real-life cases. 

Main courses 

1. Introduction to corporate finance – Deepanshu Lakhwan 
2. Firm management I: Assets – Deepanshu Lakhwan & Dr Tomasz M. Napiórkowski, MBA 
3. Firm management II: Liabilities and equity – Deepanshu Lakhwan & Dr Tomasz M. Napiórkowski, MBA 
4. Firm management III: Project evaluation and selection – Dr Tomasz M. Napiórkowski, MBA 
5. Firm management IV: Ethics in corporate finance – Dr Anna Napiórkowski 
6. Firm financing I: Debt and Equity – Deepanshu Lakhwan 
7. Firm financing II: Public funds – Dr Tomasz M. Napiórkowski, MBA 
8. Firm analysis I: Liquidity, profitability, market value – Dr Tomasz M. Napiórkowski, MBA 
9. Firm analysis II: Debt, solvency, efficiency, valuation – Dr Tomasz M. Napiórkowski, MBA 
10. Firm simulation I: Simulation game (1/2) – Karol Strzała, MBA, LL.M 
11. Firm simulation II: Simulation game (2/2) – Karol Strzała, MBA, LL.M 

Elective courses 

1. Role of finance in life and business management – Dr Tomasz M. Napiórkowski, MBA 
2. Introduction to personal investing – Deepanshu Lakhwan 
3. Investments IV: Neofinance – Karol Strzała, MBA, LL.M 
4. Portfolio building I: Safety net portfolio – Dr Tomasz M. Napiórkowski, MBA 
5. Current topics in finance – Dr Tomasz M. Napiórkowski, MBA