Faculty of Economics

 

Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Associate Professor of Finance and Credit" department, Ph.D. in Economics — Yury B. Vershinin

The main background:

Scientific activity – 3 monographs, more than 20 articles in journals recommended by the State Commission on Academic Degrees and Titles, total number of the published articles on economic topics more than 100. The sphere of scientific interests – investment activity, public-private partnership, finance of the companies and state enterprises. During a number of years he has been a member of the Advisory council at the Ministry of Finance of the Ulyanovsk region, a member of the Expert group at the Audit Chamber of the Ulyanovsk region, a member of the working group for developing the city budget of Ulyanovsk.

The certificate on business assessment was given in 1998 at the Institute of Professional Development of the Russian Economic Academy named after Plekhanov, and it was confirmed in 2012 (Ulyanovsk, USU)

 

 

Deputies:

1. Deputy dean for academic affairs of the faculty of economics, Cand.Econ.Sci., the associate professor of accounting and audit Basharova Olga Gennadyevna.

2. Deputy dean for practical training and employment — Zakatina Yulia Vladimirovna. Duties: Organization educational, production and predegree practician; Holding meetings with the enterprises for questions of practice and employment; Work with the applications  from  enterprises.

 

Information on the faculty of economics

     The faculty of finance and accounting of the Institute of economy and business was founded in 1997 after reorganization of the economics department of USU, and affiliation of the Economic institute of the Samara state economic academy.

In December, 2012 due to transition to training of specialists in compliance with the requirements of HPE standards of the third generation by the decision of the Academic Council of USU the faculty was renamed into the faculty of economics.

   The main objective of the faculty is to train highly qualified economists in various areas of the market economy.

 

      Now about 700 students are trained at the faculty, there are two forms of education: full-time and by correspondence. At the faculty there are more than 40 core teachers, of them 4 doctors of economics and 1 doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, more than 30 candidates economic and physics — mathematical sciences. During study the students of the institute are comprehensively included in practical activities: work part-time in the organizations, auditor firms and other commercial structures of the region, carry out consultation of clients concerning accounting, audit, financial consulting.

Information on the Faculty of Economics (formerly Faculty of Finance and Accounting) of the Institute of Economics and Business of Ulyanovsk State University

Faculty of Finance and Accounting of the Institute of Economics and Business was founded in 1997 by restructuring the Faculty of Economics of Ulyanovsk State University and by merging with the Economic Institute of the Samara State Economic Academy. In December, 2012 the Faculty was renamed as The Faculty of Economics (Institute of Economics and Business, Ulyanovsk State University) owing to adoption of specialization training in accordance with standard requirements of third-generation World Education at the direction of the Board of Studies.

The primary objective of the faculty is training of highly qualified economists in various fields of market system.

At this moment there are about 700 students on the faculty. It has full-time and part-time education. More than 40 lecturers of core faculty, including 4 doctors of Economics and 1 doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, more than 30 Ph.D. of Economics and Physical and Mathematical Sciences work there. During their studies the students are extensively involved in practical activities: they have a part-time job in the organizations, auditing firms and other commercial entities of the region, they consult  the clients on the issues of accounting, audit, financial advising.

 

Information on the structure of the faculty:

At this moment there are 4 administering departments on the faculty:

• Finance and credit;
• Accounting and audit;
•  World economics and history of economic science;
•  Economic and mathematical methods and information technologies.

There are 2 students' scientific circles:

1. "The financier" — scientific adviser Zabbarova O.
2. «The aspects of the accounting in modern terms» - scientific adviser Basharova O.

 At this moment the students can choose full-time or part-time educational form:

a degree in:

• 08010 «Economic security»;

course of studies:

• 080100 «Economics», including the following courses ofFinance and credit",Accounting, analysis and audit",Economics, finance and accounting";
• 080500 «Business-informatics».

The training process is kept in full concordance with national educational standards. They use modern multimedia technologies of education.

The faculty has 3 labs equipped with internet-access computers. The labs are connected with reference-information system «Consultant plus», «Guarantor», which are equipped with modern application software for finance, accounting, audit and analysis management.

The graduates of the faculty have a lot of opportunities for academic career. The departments of the faculty qualify postgraduates and applicants with a degree in following fields:

• Economics and management of the national economy;
• Accounting, statistics;
• Finance, credit and currency circulation.

Information on the disciplines and training areas:

Until 2011 the faculty was providing training of professionals of full-time and part time form of education with a degree in 4 disciplines:

  Discipline 08.01.09 «Accounting, analysis and audit»:

Qualification criteria. The graduate should:

• have good knowledge of the structures and tendencies of Russian and world economics development;
• understand the diversity of modern economic functions, its connection with other processes happening in society;
• have all skills, knowledge and abilities necessary for accountant's profession. In conditions of economic globalization the graduate's profession skill should fulfill criteria, applicable by The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and by the Trade and Development Board (UNCTAD) to the graduates of this field.

While applying his knowledge and abilities in practical professional activities the graduate should:

• have necessary knowledge in the fields of economic theory, accounting (financial and management), financial statements, business analysis, audit, tax assessment, business and commercial laws, business activities and financial services funding, quantitative economic and mathematical analysis and statistics methods for commercial activity, operative management and strategy, general commercial strategy and general organizational structures, administrative functions and methods, organizational activity, marketing, organization marketing and principles of international commercial activity, information technology, international accounting and audit standards;
• be able to create for each company sustainable accounting system services on basis of choice of effective accounting policy based on the statutory compliance and principles of consolidation of business unit economy;
• carry out the work of asset presence and flow, liabilities and business unit's fund and scoring of its business activities;
• know and be able to apply the principles and the rules of the audit of the general economic operations;
• be able to analyze accounting and reporting information for the purpose of making business decisions and receiving the value of objects performance effectiveness.

 

The discipline "Finance and credit"

Qualification criteria. The graduate should:

• have good knowledge of the structures and tendencies of Russian and world economics development;
• understand the diversity of modern economic functions, its connection with other processes happening in society;
• be able to apply knowledge on financial, monetary, credit theories in his practice;
• know the basis of organization of monetary accommodation, correlation among different fields of money turnover, money and sales turnover, the basis of banking and stock-exchange industry, the basis of management of tax assessment and assurance, public and municipal finance;
• be prepared for professional activities in the organizations of financial and credit system, including external-economic field, and be able to work on the job, involving analytical approach in unusual situations;
• solve irregular problems, expect economic functions in the field of monetary, financial and credit arrangements;
• see the opportunities of the development of finance and credit arrangements and prospects of his professional activities;
• be able to meet competition, have knowledge in related discipline;
• be able to organize his work, have skill of computer techniques of collection, storage and processing of information used in the field of his professional activities, be able to use modern information technologies.

 

  Discipline 080102 «World economy»

Qualification criteria. The graduate should:

• have good knowledge of the structures and tendencies of Russian and world economics development;
• understand the diversity of modern economic functions, its connection with other processes happening in society;
•  to realize the matter and social importance of the profession, the main problems of disciplines that define a specific field of his activities, to see its connection in entire knowledge system;
• know the theoretical foundations and principles of operation of the economy, including transient processes;
• know the principles of the adoption and implementation of economic and administrative decisions;
• know the matter of the main problems associated with the development of areas of external-economic activity in condition of the shift to a market economy;
• have knowledge of the world economy and international economic relations, financial and banking activities, accounting, control, taxation, business analysis and audit, statistics, international law, marketing and management, legislation in the area of acquired specialization, the economic foundations of business, mathematical modelling in economics, economic informatics and computer systems and other disciplines on external-economic activity;
• be able to use knowledge of the world economy, international economic relations, financial and banking disciplines in their practical activities;
• be able to identify economic problems in the analysis of specific situations, propose ways to of its solution, and measure the expected results;
• be able to organize and integrate information, prepare references and reviews on professional activity, be able to edit, annotate and referee texts;
• be able to use the basic and special methods of economic analysis in the field of professional activity;
• be able to engineer and base various effective economic decisions;
• be able to evaluate critically behavior of economic agents, the development trend of objects in the field of professional activity from different sides (production, motivational, institutional, etc.);
• be able to use computer technology to solve economic problems;
• be able to solve unusual problems, have the skills of forecasting economic processes in the field of monetary, financial and credit relations;
• be ready to cooperate with colleagues, be able to work in a group (team) of professionals, to find and implement effective management decisions;
• know special economic terminology and vocabulary of specialty in at least one foreign language;
• have the skills of independent getting of new knowledge, use of modern educational technology;
• have the skills of a professional argumentation during the studying of typical situations in future work;
• have the necessary knowledge in foreign trade, monetary and financial areas at both the national and international levels;
• know the foreign language (one or more) and use it in professional activities.

 

  Discipline 080116  «Mathematical methods in economics»

Qualification criteria. The graduate should:

• be able to forecast and make multivariate analytical calculations in the field of economic and management activities;
• be able to analyze and simulate economic processes and objects at the micro, macro and global levels;
• monitor economic and mathematical models;
• carry out forecasting, programming and optimization of economic systems.

Duration of training professionals for full-time is 5 years, for part-time — 5.5 years. The Faculty will continue training professionals by 2015.

 

Since 2011 the faculty has been training in two fields of four-year degree and 1 discipline:

  Discipline 080100  «Economics»

Qualification criteria. The occupational area of bachelors includes following:

• economic, financial, marketing, productive-economic and analytical services in different industries, areas and forms of ownership;
• financial, credit and insurance companies;
• government and municipal authorities;
• academic and departmental research institutions;
• educational institutions, educational institutions of primary vocational, secondary vocational, higher vocational and further professional education.

The objects of bachelors professional activity are the behavior of economic agents, their costs and results, functioning markets, financial and information flows, manufacturing processes.

The bachelor is trained in discipline 080100 «Economics» for the following professional activities:

• economic;
• analytical, research;
• organizational and management;
• teaching.

The bachelor trained in the discipline 080100 «Economics»  should solve professional issues in accordance with professional activities:

•  economic;
• determination of data for performing the calculation of economic and socio-economic indicators characterizing the activity of economic entities;
• performing the calculation of economic and socio-economic indicators on basis of standard methods consistent with functional regulatory and legal framework;
• economic development sections of plans of enterprises of different ownership forms, organizations, departments;
• development of economic headings of enterprises' plans of different forms of ownership, organizations, departments;
• analytical, research activity;
• seeking of information on the given task, collection and analysis of data, necessary for providing the economic calculations;
• handling of economic data consistent with application task, analysis, value judgment, interpretation of findings and validation of conclusions;
• development of standard theoretical and econometric models of examined processes, facts and objects related to the field of professional activity, analysis and interpretation of the results;
• analysis and interpretation of indicators characterizing socio-economic processes and phenomena at the micro and macro level, both in Russia and abroad;
•  preparation of information reviews, analytical reports;
•  statistical surveys, polls, surveys and primary processing of their results;
• carrying out the statistical surveys, interviews and primary results processing;
• participation in the development of projects design in the field of professional activity, preparing proposals and events for the implementation of the developed projects and programs;
• organizational and managerial activities;
• participation in the development of various management decisions, grounding their choice based on the criteria of socio-economic efficiency consistent with the risk and possible socio-economic consequences of decisions;
• performance of the assigned work;
• operational management of small teams and groups formed for the performance of the economic project;
• participation in the preparation and solving decisions on the organization of management and improvement of economic services and units of enterprises of different ownership forms, organizations, agencies, taking into account the legal, administrative and other restrictions;
•  teaching activity;
•  teaching economic disciplines in general education institutions, educational institutions of primary vocational, secondary vocational, higher vocational and further professional education.

Duration of bachelors' training for full-time is 4 years, for part-time — 4,5 years.

  Discipline 080500  «Business-informatics»

Qualification criteria. The occupational area of bachelors includes following:

• enterprise architecture;
• strategic development planning of IP and ICT of enterprise management;
• organization of life cycle processes of IP and ICT of enterprise management;
• analytical support of decision-making processes for enterprise management.

The objects of bachelors professional activity are:

• enterprise architecture;
• methods and tools for the creation and development of e-businesses and their components;
• IP and ICT of business management;
• methods and tools for IP and ICT life cycle management;
• innovation and innovation processes in the field of ICT.

The bachelor is trained in the discipline 080100Economics" for the following professional activities:

• analytical;
• organizational and management;
• design;
• research;
• consulting;
• innovation and entrepreneurship.

Duration of bachelors' training for full-time is 4 years.

  Discipline 080101  «Economic security»

Qualification criteria. The occupational area of bachelors includes following:

• economic security of society, the state and the individual, economic actors;
• providing of the legitimacy and justice in the economic sphere;
• judicial activity of jurisdiction maintenance, prevention, solving and investigation of offences in the economic sphere; economic, socio-economic activities of businesses of economic, financial, industrial and analytical organization services, institutions and enterprises of various forms of ownership, state and municipal authorities, competitive intelligence, economic education.

The objects of bachelors professional activity are:

• public relations in the sphere of law and justice, economic security;
• events and actions that pose a threat to economic security, and the properties and characteristics of material mediums of investigative and evidentiary information; behavior of economic entities, their costs, risks, and results of economic activity, functioning markets, financial and information flows, manufacturing processes.

The bachelor is trained in the discipline 080101 "Economic security" for the following professional activities:

• computational and economic; design and economic;
• law protection;
• control and auditorial;
• informational and analytical;
• expert and consulting;
• organization and management;
• research;
• teaching.

Duration of bachelors' training for full-time is 5 years, for part-time — 5,5 years.

Information on the dean's working hours, working hours of the dean's office, schedule of references issue.

The dean's office:

Monday — Friday: 8:00 — 12:00 and 12:30 - 17:00;

Saturday: 8:00 — 14:00 without a break.

The dean's working hours:

Tuesday: 9:30 — 13:10;

Wednesday: 9:30 — 13:10;

Friday: 9:30 — 13:10.

The working hours of the deputy dean for education:

Thursday: 12:50 — 13:50;

The working hours of the deputy dean for practical activity and employment:

Monday: 15:00 — 16:00.

The superintendent of the dean's office of the full-time course: Julia V. Zakatina

The working hours of the inspector:

Monday — Friday: 8:00 — 12:00 and 12:30 - 16:30.

The assistant: Gulnara R. Davletshina

The working hours of the assistant:

Tuesday — Friday: 8:00 — 12:00 and 12:30 - 17:00;

Saturday: 8:00 — 14:00.

The references issue:

Monday — Friday: 13:00 — 15:00.

The working hours of the superintendent of the part-time course (the Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Finance and Accounting):

Monday — Thursday: 9:00 — 18:00;

Friday: 9:00 — 17:00.

The working hours of the assistant of the part-time course (the Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Finance and Accounting):

Monday — Thursday: 9:00 — 15:00;

Friday: 9:00 — 13:00.

Contact information:

The dean of the Faculty of Economics (full-time form): room ¹ 706, 7^th floor, 4a, Pushkinskaya str.; tel/fax: (8422) 32-06–89;  e-mail: fiu@edu.ulsu.ru

The dean of part-time form: room ¹ 5, 1^st floor, 29, Federation str.; tel: (8422) 42-61-33