BA School of Business and Finance ( lv, Banku Augstskola) is one of the leading, self-financing business schools in Latvia. It was founded in 1992 as a Banking College under the

Bank of Latvia ) , ownership = 100% state ownership , headquarters = Riga , established = 7 September 1922 , president = Mārtiņš Kazāks , leader_title = Governor , bank_of = Latvia , reserves = US$3.05 billion , website www.bank.lv, preceded = Sta ...

and received accreditation in 1997 In 2007 BA School of Business and Finance celebrated its 15th anniversary. It supports United Nations initiative and follows the Principles for Responsible Management Education. On December 11 BA School of Business and Finance announced its decision to achieve Investors in Excellence Standard (a national standard which is based on the concepts of Excellence and the nine criteria of the widely used European Excellence Model (EFQM)). Today it offers undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programmes in Economics and Entrepreneurship, Business Administration and Finance. The study processes have gained an explicit international dimension. Graduates are nationally and internationally recognized entrepreneurs, managers, consultants, experts and professionals.

Studies

The school offers the following study programmes: First level professional education programmes *

Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...

* Banking Operations *

Accountancy Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "langua ...

and Finance Bachelor's degree study programmes * Business administration * Finance * Risk management and Insurance * Innovation and Product Development in Business Master's degree study programmes * Business Administration * Finance *

International finance International finance (also referred to as international monetary economics or international macroeconomics) is the branch of financial economics broadly concerned with monetary and macroeconomic interrelations between two or more countries. Inter ...

and Banking (double degree programme with the Swiss Business School based in Zürich) * Creative Industries Management * Innovative Entrepreneurship * Financial Management * Cybersecurity Management Doctor's study programme (3 years) * Joint Doctoral Programme in Business Administration

Membership in international organizations

* Network of International Business Schools
Professional Inter-University Management for Educational Networking

European Association of Institutions in Higher Education

Baltic Management Development Association

Central and East European Management Development Association

European Network for Business Studies and Languages

European Foundation for Management Development

Midlands Excellence/Investor in Excellence

References

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