Faculty of Management

• Evolutions of organization and management theory.
• The essence of strategy and strategic management - genesis and evolution of concepts, review of contemporary definitions.
• Methods of strategic analysis and decision support in the choice of the direction of organization's development.
• Competitive advantage of the company and its main sources.
• Methods of strategic analysis of the further and closer environment.
• Types and hierarchy of business information systems.
• The place and role of the IT system in the business management system.
• Data mining as a decision support tool.
• The essence of the lean management concept, benefits and applications.
• Corporate Social Responsibility and methods of its implementation in today's organizations.
• Main theories of motivation and their implications for management practice.
• Organizational culture and its role in managing the organization.
• Elements of corporate finance - selection of financing sources for the company.
• The role of the management accounting system in the process of creating value.
• The essence of marketing and the specificity of marketing activities in economy.
• Marketing-mix elements.
• Launching new products in the market.
• Contemporary concepts of Quality Management.
• Employer branding - the essence and ways.
• Human capital management in organizations.
• Challenges facing today's management of organizations.
• The category of efficiency in management sciences.
• Key performance indicators in company management.
• Analysis and the meaning of the product cycle.
• Change management process and its phases.
• Business models - the essence, elements, classification.
• Integrated reporting as a new approach to contemporary business reporting.
• Logistic management and supply chain management.
• The use of operational research in management.
• Closed-loop economy management.
• Leadership in organization - new concepts.
• Heuristics in solving management problems.
• Behavioral company theory.

Economics

• Elasticity of demand and supply; technical and economic optimum; utility function; profit maximization and the firm's supply curve in a perfectly competitive market in the short and long run.
• Price regulation policy; the impact of taxation on the market situation; public goods and private goods.
• Market imperfections; information asymmetry - consequences and methods of reduction.
• Forms of market competition - perfect competition and monopolistic competition, features of the oligopolistic market.
• Determinants and consequences of income inequality, Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient.
• Definition and methods of measuring GDP; GDP vs. GNP; limitations of GDP as a measure of well-being; inflation - measurement and causes of occurrence; inflation and GDP deflator; determinants of economic growth in the long term; convergence; economic growth models.
• Unemployment - definition, types; concept, types and functions of money; money creation mechanism.
• International flows of goods and capital and their determinants; advantages and disadvantages of the theory of purchasing power parity and interest rate parity; foreign trade balance; the multiplier effect and the crowding out effect in the Keynesian model of the economy; global value chains.
• Causes, course and effects of economic crises; the aggregate demand curve and the long- and short-term aggregate supply curve; short-term and long-term Phillips curve; forms of stabilization policy of the state.
• Input-output models; IO multipliers; global IO models - method of construction, advantages, limitations, applications.

Finance

• Developments in global finance and asset pricing in light of risk and uncertainty; general equilibrium model (Arrow (1951), Debreu (1951), Arrow, Debreu (1954)).
• Markowitz's model (1952) as basics of the CAPM (1960-1962) and ICAPM Merton (1973) - criticism, and conditions of the CAPM and ICAPM pricing consistency.
• ICAPM in light of the APT - difference and similarity; alternative pricing models.
• Estimation of investment risk in securities listed on the stock market.
• Investment funds – risk of investing in selected type of funds.
• Possibilities to secure the company's operations in the conditions of changing future states of the economy.
• Evaluation of the results of financial reports of public companies in the light of a stock market investor.
• Capital pricing of real estate, enterprises - methods and conditions of discretization.
• The market value of bonds, the rates of return on investment in bonds depending on changes in market interest rates.
• Bond portfolio value hedging – bond duration, holding period risk, reinvestment risk.