Course description

“Finances” is a normative discipline of the cycle of professional and practical training of students majoring in 072 “Finance, Banking and Insurance”. The study of the discipline consists of a lecture course, seminars and practical classes, independent work of students and the implementation of individual research work.

The purpose of studying the discipline is to form students ‘knowledge of the functioning of finance and their impact on socio-economic development of society, expansion and deepening of students’ theoretical knowledge about the financial system, the formation and use of financial resources that ensure the functioning of each component.

The tasks of studying the discipline “Finances” are:
– study of historical processes of origin, formation and development of financial relations in Ukraine and some foreign countries;
– mastering the essence and mechanism of functioning of finances, their functions;
– disclosure of the theoretical foundations of public, corporate and international finance;
– mastering the principles of functioning of the financial system of the state;
– formation of students’ theoretical and methodological framework necessary for the subsequent mastery of the practice of using financial instruments;
– understanding the patterns in the field of financial relations of the state, business
entities and the population, the disclosure of opportunities to use these patterns in the practice of financial work.