History of the Department

The Department of Finance and Banking was formed as an independent structural unit in April 1968 by separating it from the Department of Accounting, Finance and Credit.

The department employs 7 teachers, including 1 doctor of economic sciences, 5 candidates of economic sciences, 1 assistant. The teaching of applied disciplines provides practices that combine scientific research, management activities with the training of specialists, filling the educational process with new opportunities for development and motivation for students of higher education.

The activity of teachers is focused on deep professional training of specialists with a wide range of coverage of spheres of professional activity, which ensures the formation of an analytical basis in a specialist capable of forecasting and modeling situations and scenarios of financial activity and its macro environmentThe Department of Finance and Banking was formed as an independent structural unit in April 1968 by separating it from the Department of Accounting, Finance and Credit.

The department employs 7 teachers, including 1 doctor of economic sciences, 5 candidates of economic sciences, 1 assistant. The teaching of applied disciplines provides practices that combine scientific research, management activities with the training of specialists, filling the educational process with new opportunities for development and motivation for students of higher education.

The activity of teachers is focused on deep professional training of specialists with a wide range of coverage of spheres of professional activity, which ensures the formation of an analytical basis in a specialist capable of forecasting and modeling situations and scenarios of financial activity and its macro environment.

The mission of the Department of Finance and Banking of the Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University is the formation of a highly intellectual professional personality capable of progressive financial development and innovative breakthroughs in the field of finance, banking and insurance according to international standards, on the principles of sustainability and social responsibility, through the synergy of professionalism and the ability to flexibly adapt to changes, increasing financial literacy in society.

Vision of the department:

1) a community of professionals motivated for self-development, generation of creative ideas, united by a corporate spirit;

2) synergy of stakeholders for involvement in the processes of financial development of the country and increasing the level of financial literacy of citizens.

3) an integrator partner capable of producing value propositions, interacting with the business community, government institutions and financial and credit institutions;

4) part of the Stusiv community of like-minded people with their own corporate spirit and values, which is united by the principles of academic freedom and integrity, professional dignity.

Applicants of higher education study the following educational programs:

Bachelor – OP Finance, banking and insurance

Master’s degree – OP Finance, banking and insurance

OP International Financial ManagementThe strategic partners of the department, which are members of the Council of Employers of the Faculty of Economics, are: PrJSC “Misto Insurance Company”, the Main Department of the DPS in Vinnytsia Region, LLC “Ukrainian Center for Accounting and Auditing “VEDA”.

Graduates of the department of finance and banking successfully work in state and commercial financial and credit institutions, banks, insurance companies, enterprises, the State Tax Service of Ukraine, the State Audit Service of Ukraine, create their own business, etc.

History of the department.

April 1968 – separation from the department of accounting, finance and credit of the department of finance and credit as an independent structural unit.

1993 – renamed to the Department of Finance and Banking.

October 2014 – February 2022 the department was headed by Doctor of Economics, Professor Oleksandra Anatoliivna Laktionova.

February 2022 – the department is currently headed by Lyudmila Viktorivna Yurchyshen, Associate Professor of Economics