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- VAASA.INF Finland, Vaasa, U of Vaasa, Timo Salmi
- Updated Wed 5-August-1992
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- FINLAND
- Location: Northern Europe, Scandinavia
- Independence: since 1917
- Economic system: free market economy
- Political System: western democracy, multiparty system
- Population: 5 milj.
- Area: 338 000 sq. km (Great Britain 244 000,
- Germany 357 335, Italy 301 000 sq. km)
- Lakes: 187 888
- Islands: 179 584
- Common borders with: Sweden 586 km (264 miles)
- Norway 716 km (445 miles)
- Russia 1 269 km (788 miles)
- Main Industries: Metal and engineering industry 38 %
- Forest industry 19 %
- Chemical industry 11 %
- Food industry 11 %
- Textile industry 6 %
- Other 15 %
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- Time zone: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 during summer daylight saving time
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- VAASA
- Location: on the western coast of Finland, 400 km (250 miles)
- northwest of Helsinki
- Founded: in 1606
- Population: 54271, of which about 3/4 Finnish-speaking and
- 1/4 Swedish-speaking
- Area: 397 sq. km of which 258 is maritime
- Climate: The annual mean temperature + 5.1 C, warmest in July,
- average 15.2 C and coldest in January, average - 6.7 C.
- Windy and sunny in Finnish comparison because of
- the western coastal location.
- Employed persons by type of economic activity:
- Public services 40.4 %
- Industry 28.6 %
- Private services 22.3 %
- Constructions 6.2 %
- Primary production 1.3 %
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- UNIVERSITY OF VAASA (1-Jan-1992)
- Founded: in 1968
- Total graduate student enrollment: 2312
- in economics and business administration: 1488
- Post graduate student enrollment:
- - Economics and business administration 100
- - The humanities 45
- - The social sciences 19
- Personnel: teaching personnel 136
- other personnel 154
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- Faculties, Disciplines and Affiliated Institutions:
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- 1) Faculty of Business Administration is divided into five
- departments:
- - Department of Management and Organization
- - Department of Marketing (subjects: marketing and international
- marketing)
- - Department of Economics
- - Department of Law (commerce, and corporate taxation)
- - Department of Economic Geography.
- Degrees granted: Master, Licentiate, and Doctorate of Economics and
- Business Management
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- 2) Faculty of Accounting and Industrial Management:
- - Department of Accounting and Business Finance
- - Department of Mathematics and Statistics (operations research and
- management science)
- - Department of Information Technology and Production Management
- (including physics as a minor subject)
- Degrees granted: Master, Licentiate, and Doctorate of Economics and
- Business Management
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- 3) Faculty of Humanities:
- - Department of English
- - Department of Scandinavian Languages
- - Department of German
- - Department of Finnish
- - Department of Communication Studies (applied linguistics, in
- formation science)
- Degrees granted: Master, Licentiate, and Doctorate of Arts
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- 4) Faculty of Social Sciences, which is not divided into
- departments. The disciplines are
- - public Administration
- - public Law
- - social Health
- - economic Sociology
- Degrees granted: Master, Licentiate, and Doctorate of Administrative
- Sciences.
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- Affiliated Institutions are Library, Computer Centre, Centre for
- Continuing Education and Western-Finland Centre for Economic
- Research.
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- FACULTY OF ACCOUNTING AND INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT (28-Jan-92)
- Total student enrollment: 767
- Studying for and MSc (Econ):
- in accounting and business finance: 469
- in quantitative business analysis: 53
- in information technology: 30
- in production management 26
- Studying for MSc (Tech): 31
- Post graduate students:
- in accounting and business finance: 24
- in methodological sciences 4
- in information technology: 4
- in production management 1
- Full professors: 7
- Associate professors: 5
- Other teaching positions: 21
- Supporting personnel: 4
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- Department of Accounting and Business Finance main research
- interests:
- Financial statement analysis
- Analysis of firm growth, profitability, and financing.
- Security markets, and efficiency
- Bankruptcy prediction
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- TIMO SALMI
- Professor (full, tenured) of Accounting and Business Finance
- Dean of faculty, Chairperson of Computer Centre Board
- Major professional interests:
- Financial statement analysis
- Quantitative research methodologies and principles
- Operations research in accounting
- Born: 1945 in Helsinki, Finland
- Hobbies: Cycling, jogging, cross country skiing.
- Computer programming, English pocketbooks, Popularized
- natural and behavioral sciences.
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- Written by Prof Timo Salmi and Information Officer Helena Kantanen.
- Revised data collected by International Coordinator Paivi Laukkanen,
- Civil Servant Trainee Paivi Tossavainen, Faculty Administrative
- Secretary Anita Niiranen, and acting Information Officer Leena
- Haapoja.
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- Prof. Timo Salmi
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
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