Program Supervisor - Professor L.Gnylytska and Associate Professor O.A. Ostrowska

The Master’s Program "Management of financial and economic security" is a new one and established in connection with the emergence of the urgent need to prepare highly qualified specialists in financial and economic security of companies and the state.

The aims of the program are to ensure thorough theoretical and practical training, sufficient to perform professional tasks and responsibilities in the field of financial and economic security of companies and the state in:

• fundamentals of the national security;

• methods of combating economic crime;

• domestic and international experience in crime prevention in the economic sphere;

• corporate conflicts (raid) and methods for overcoming them;

• managing the protection of trade secrets;

• valuation of property and business; etc.

The unique feature of the Master’s Program is that it is interdisciplinary in nature and is on the verge of specialties "Finance and Credit", "Law", "Management", "Psychology", "Business Administration". The program allows individuals who have basic (bachelor's level) non-economic (legal, engineering, military, pedagogical) education to receive Master's degree in the field of Economics. For those who have basic education in "Economics and Business" the Program offers advanced training not only in financial and economic specialization, but also obtaining specific professional knowledge in psychology and legal support of financial and economic security.

The program aims at training specialists who could provide:

• development and implementation of financial security strategy of private and public enterprises and organizations;

• financial analysis in the economic direction of national security;

• risk management and internal control in the company;

• financial communication and competitive intelligence of enterprises;

• financial investigation and monitoring of threats for companies;

• behavior management and neutralization of corporate conflicts;

• assessment and cost management of the company;

• prevention of crime in the financial and economic sphere;

• protection of trade secrets and professional risk management;

• effective economic crime and raiding counteraction;

• crisis management of the company.

Base for practical training. Bases for practical training may be government agencies engaged in the fight against economic crime, tax and customs departments of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, structures of the State Financial Inspection of Ukraine, the State Service for Financial Monitoring of Ukraine; enterprises, institutions, organizations, banks and financial institutions.

Apprenticeship: 1.5 years (3 semesters).

Curriculum.

In the I semester:

• Strategic and innovative management of financial and economic security

• Integrated provision of financial and economic security

• Accounting and analysis to ensure financial and economic security

• Corporate Finance

• Taxation of business entities

• Theory of social security systems

• Professional Psychology

In the II-nd semester:

• Technologies of analysts’ activities on financial and economic security

• Management of financial and economic security of banks and financial institutions

• Information and analytical support of financial security of the company

• Scientific and methodological support of experts in financial and economic security

• Legal security of economic activity in Ukraine

In the III rd semester:

• Financial CrisisManagement

• Accounting according to international standards

• Controlling of Risks

• Internal Financial Control

Employment. Graduates of the Program can work as: analyst on financial and economic security, professional in corporate management, expert on foreign issues, economic advisor, consultant on economic issues, an expert on financial and economic security; they can also work in security departments of banks, financial institutions, business entities and security activities.

Admission requirements to the Master's Program are on the site of Kyiv National Economic University.