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VAASA.INF Finland, Vaasa, U of Vaasa, Timo Salmi
Updated Wed 5-August-1992
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 %
Time zone: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 during summer daylight saving time
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 %
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
Faculties, Disciplines and Affiliated Institutions:
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
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
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
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.
Affiliated Institutions are Library, Computer Centre, Centre for
Continuing Education and Western-Finland Centre for Economic
Research.
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
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
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.
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