Ethics and finance: complementary or conflicting terms?
In this highly interactive and up-to-date course, you will dig into the most notorious financial crimes to better understand what can drive any one of us into cheating investors and ruining one’s career.
Aim of the course:
The course aims to raise your awareness and scrutiny to possible ethical challenges that firms, managers, and employees face when thinking about financial laws and enforcement, with an economic perspective and illustrated with real-life and up-to-date examples.
The scope of unethical financial behaviors covers market abuses, with price manipulation, insider trading, and communication of false information; in particular, accounting fraud.
This course should contribute to a better understanding of how ethical issues play a role in finance, how they may conflict with firms’ strategies, and of how managers’ and employees’ decisions can impact financial markets and investors’ wealth.
The goal of this course is to prepare students for potential ethical dilemmas they may face throughout their careers. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to challenge and put into perspective the financial behavior of firms, including financial institutions and listed firms, in terms of ethics, from an economic perspective.
Main Instructor: Laure de Batz de Trenquelléon, PhD, professor at the University of Economics in Prague (VŠE)
Local Instructors: prof. Joanna Dzionek-Kozłowska, dr Ewa Stawasz-Grabowska
Course details
- ECTS points: 3 ECTS points (can be exchanged for crediting an elective lecture)
- Classes start on November 5 and end on December 13, 2024
- Online lectures:
- Tuesdays 11.30-13.00
- Fridays 11.30-12.15
- Workshops with a local instructor at the EkSoc Campus: Fridays 12.15-13.00
- Limit of students: 20
- Language of instruction: English
- Final Exam: a selected day in a week between December 16 and 20, 2024
- Make-up Exam: a selected day in a week between January 6 and 10, 2025
Course application
Application form: Link
Deadline for applications: 28 October 2024
