Overview

The specialized program in Financial Management (CFA, Chartered Financial Analyst) focuses on studying fundamental theories and methods of corporate financial management, capital markets, and securities investment from a micro perspective. Aligned with the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) standard, the program integrates CFA-related courses into its curriculum. It aims to cultivate innovative, data-driven, and application-oriented financial management talents who possess international perspectives and financial thinking, master financial theories and managerial methods, are proficient in data analysis techniques, and understand the principles of fund management, thereby serving the development of smart cities and regional economies.

Distinctive Features of Talent Cultivation：CFA Standards and Financial Thinking

Why Choose Financial Management (CFA, Chartered Financial Analyst)?

• Creating Global Vision: The program has a forward-looking personality in terms of professional talent cultivation goals and specifications requirements, which aims to cultivate internationally-minded, high-caliber financial management professionals with "profound humanistic qualities, solid theoretical foundations, proficient professional skills, broad international perspectives, and strong innovation awareness."
• Promoting Professional Financial Skills: Cultivating high-quality applied talents based on dual professional qualities and skills of both accounting and finance industries.
• A high level of integration between financial management and finance: The curriculum features comprehensive integrations of financial management and finance, cultivating high-caliber talents who are familiar with the capital market and adept at using it to find low-cost financing methods and high-yield investment projects for enterprises.
• Business-Finance Integration as the Foundation. The program utilizes experimental software to simulate enterprise economic activities enables dynamic management and control, achieving integration of finance and business, and realizing the effective allocation and coordination of enterprise resources.
• High-quality faculty as the support: This major boasts an excellent team of teachers who are capable of bilingual teaching. The team leader has repeatedly won provincial teaching competition awards and teaching achievement awards. Team members have participated in multiple provincial and municipal research projects, edited more than ten textbooks, and hold multiple financial and economic professional qualifications such as Certified Public Accountant, Certified Tax Agent, and Senior Accountant. The proportion of "double-qualified" teachers is 100%.
• Virtual experiments are highly applied: Work process-oriented Virtual business environment experiments fully reflect professionalism, practicality and openness, so an integrated teaching model of "teaching-learning-doing" has been developed.
• Academic competitions enhance abilities. It establishes a comprehensive training system that integrates knowledge acquisition, application skills, practical experience, and innovative thinking. Students are actively guided to improve their overall competencies and well-rounded qualities through various academic competitions, social practices, and other extracurricular activities.

Essential information

• School School of Accounting and Finance
• Study Mode Full-time
• Program Length 4 years
• Degree Financial Management(Bachelor of Management)

Knowledge and Skills

Graduates of this major will have the following knowledge and skills:

• Familiar with international financial and fiscal standards, and possess knowledge of finance and financial management, so that they can apply expertise in economics, management, legal, and digital technologies.
• They will possess proficient skills in quantitative financial analysis, have a big data mindset, and understand the relevant skills and operations of intelligent tools.
• They will possess an international perspective, financial acumen, humanistic qualities, and integrity.
• They will possess sound business philosophy and management concepts, be able to adapt to the requirements of modern market economic development for financial management, and serve the scientific development of urban economy and society through theoretical and practical innovation.
• They will be competent in financial analysis, investment and financing management, financial planning and capital operation for various enterprises, institutions, multinational corporations, banks and various non-bank financial institutions.
• They will be able to possess cross-disciplinary capabilities in finance and management, digital financial analysis, financial practice, capital management, and communication and collaboration.

Message from the Program Director

Curriculum Structure

Career Prospects

After graduation, students can either take the postgraduate entrance examination or study abroad. For postgraduate studies, they can choose majors in economics and management such as financial management, accounting, auditing, investment, finance, and business management.

After graduation, students can engage in professional work such as financial management, budgeting, analysis, decision-making and so on, in various types and sizes of enterprises, such as private enterprises, state-owned enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, financial institutions, investment banks, consulting firms, and accounting firms. They can also join the financial industry, such as banking, insurance, securities, and venture capital, as financial planners or actuaries.