The Financial Analyst Summer School was conducted for potential entrants who will major in Accounting and Taxation at the Department of Accounting and Analysis, Lviv Polytechnic National University, from May 9 to 11, 2024. The participants of the event were 95 high school students of secondary schools of the city of Lviv.
In accordance with the program of the Summer School, the following activities were carried out:
- training-acquaintance of the participants, presentation of the Department of Accounting and Analysis, introduction to the specialty Accounting and Taxation (Head of the Department Ihor Yaremko, Assistant Professor Mariia Nashkerska);
- workshop «History of emergence and development of accounting and analytics» (Assistant Professor Olesia Lemishovska);
- workshop «Choosing a profession – choosing the future» (Associate Professor Alla Yasinska);
- business game «I will plan, calculate and analyze everything», quiz (Associate Professor Nataliia Voskalo);
- workshop on home accounting «Time to plan and analyze your own finances: solutions for home accounting» (Associate Professor Olha Vysochan);
- team Smart-quiz «Analytics and art» (Associate Professor Olha Vysochan);
- mini-lecture «Accounting and business software» (Associate Professor Olha Riabkova);
- mini-lecture «Financial analytics – the profession of the future» (Associate Professors Nataliia Mykytiuk and Mariia Nashkerska).
The meeting with the head of the Lviv office of PJSC KPMG Audit was very interesting. Students listened with enthusiasm about the peculiarities of starting their own business, the relevance of the profession of a financial analyst in the modern labour market.
During these events, Summer School participants took part in solving situational and test tasks, puzzles and crossword puzzles. According to the results of the Smart-quiz, the best teams and individual winners were awarded.
The acquaintance with Polytechnic continued with an excursion to the main building of the University, the Assembly Hall, where the participants saw the works of the Polish artist Jan Matejko, which were conceived as a kind of allegory of the development of society, its achievements and technical progress, as well as an excursion to the Zachariewicz Hall.
The Summer School ended with a summation of results, exchange of proposals for further cooperation, impressions, a survey (questionnaire) of the participants regarding their participation in the event, awarding of the winning teams and presentation of certificates.
