SPECIAL STUDENT
Lately, FEA-RP has not been offering openings for special students for lack of physical space. Eventually, after new rooms have been thoroughly built, FEA-RP will attend to these students again; however, there is no knowing when this will happen.
EQUIVALENCE
The regular undergraduate student can only request equivalence of subjects attended in high-education institutions other than USP in two occasions: when enrolling after having been approved through FUVEST (university entrance exam) on a date fixed into the Applicant’s Guide; or when enrolling after having entered through the External Transfer Process. Except for these two occasions, the applicant is not allowed to request equivalence of subjects attended in high-education institutions other than USP.
DESCRIPTION
The program aims to train professionals capable of detecting, diagnosing and proposing solutions to problems of economic and financial order, both private and public organizations. In particular, the program aims to develop skills for the solution of economic, financial problems and skills to use information that contribute to the development of organizations.
It is structured in two stages: Common Core Training and Specializations. During the first three years, students meet all subjects of Common Core Training in which the bases are founded in Economic Theory, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics and Finance. Then the future graduated proceeds to a choice in his career, completing his training in Economics or Accounting.
The ones who choose Specialization in Economics will complete their training in Economic History and Economic Theory, strengthening the application of economic concepts in practice. Who chooses Specialization in Accounting will structure fully the essential content for training in Accounting, consolidating knowledge applied in corporate and management accounting. For each Specialization, the student can choose one of three emphases - Finance, International Business and Public Policy.
Double-professional education:
The program provides the students with ample possibilities of developing skill and competences in both professional formation areas: Accounting and Economics.
The program is pervaded by related-area subjects so as to support the student’s education, which are: sociology, ethics, applied law, research methodology, among others.
Mastering quantitative methods is today fundamental for a professional to analyze data and estimate future scenarios.
The bigger the professional’s ability to read and extract complex information data is, the bigger the possibility of understanding the different economic, financial, and social realities.
CAREER
The bachelor student from this program can pursue two careers: Accounting and/or Economics.
MARKET
LIKELY PERFORMANCE AREAS (EXAMPLES)
According to the existing programs available today, the professional should necessarily have to take more than one undergraduate study in order to achieve a completer education which would meet the current work market needs, thus, overloading the student or retarding his/her entering the professional market.
The new program is designed for the following topics related to the development of the professional’s abilities and competences to make all the difference in his/her curriculum:
For further information on how to be an Undergraduate student at FEA-RP, please visit: http://www.fearp.usp.br/en/index.php/study-at-fea-rp/seeking-degree-student/undergraduate
The University of São Paulo (USP) is a Brazilian public institution, established in 1934, maintained by the State of São Paulo. This means that no student pays fees to study at the university, which is fully maintained by state taxes. In Brazilian system, free public education is the one that maintains the highest quality in teaching, research and extension, the tripod that supports the Brazilian public university system. That is why USP grows each year in international rankings and is always in first place not only in Brazil but throughout Latin America. The university has the best researchers in the country on its staff, which reflects on the quality of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
The Clock Square
There are 249 undergraduate programs offered and the number of students enrolled is approximately 58,000. It also has 239 graduate programs, with around 28,000 students. Until early 2013, more than 100,000 doctoral theses and Master dissertations have been defended. In addition, the University also has a social responsibility obligation represented by the extension area. There are 993 different courses involving specialization, improvement, updating and diffusion, with over 29,000 students.
USP has the objective of developing a lively teaching, following the transformation of knowledge and keeping in constant dialogue with society in a productive integration of education, research and extension. There are 6,000 professors, 98% of them with doctorates and exclusive dedication, 16,800 administrative staff and an annually budget of about $ 2.5 billion for 2013.
USP Campus From Above
The USP campus in Ribeirão Preto is widely recognized for both its beautiful park-like setting and its academic excellence. Originally laid out in the 1950s as a health sciences campus (medical and nursing sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, dentistry), several academic specialties were gradually added, such as physics and mathematics, information technology, chemistry, biology, psychology and education. More recent foundations are a School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting, a Law School, a School of Physical Education, and an undergraduate program in Music. Thus, the Campus of Ribeirão Preto now is not only the second largest USP campus in terms of academic specialties, but also in scientific production.
USP Campus
So as to best receive visiting scientists and students from abroad, the Campus has an International Office that works integrated with the International Offices of each Faculty, and helps visitors in getting settled and to feel the hospitality of the Interior. Being an administrative, business and cultural center in the interior of São Paulo, the city is thriving with an active cultural and student life.
São Paulo is one of the 27 federal units of Brazil. The state is part of the southeast region, also composed of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo. It borders the states of Minas Gerais to the north and northeast, Paraná state to the south, Rio de Janeiro east and Mato Grosso do Sul at west, it also borders the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. Has 645 municipalities and its total area is 248 209.426 km ², where 4 971.0469 km ² are the urban perimeter. The capital of the state is the namesake city, Sao Paulo, South America's largest.
The state has more than 41 million inhabitants which represents about 22% of Brazilian population. It is the most populous state in Brazil and the third most populous political unit of South America. The state, like Brazil, has several ethnic groups being formed mainly by Italians and Portuguese, but with influence and presence of various other ethnic groups such as Native Americans, Africans, and other large migratory flows, as Arabs, Germans, Spaniards, Japanese and Chinese.
Estaiada Bridge
São Paulo has a very strong economy and is the state with the highest GDP, representing about 30% of the total wealth produced in Brazil; therefore earned the nickname "locomotive of Brazil." The state has a diversified economy: metalworking industries, textile, food, automobile, aviation, financial and services sectors, orange, coffee, ethanol and sugarcane. Another interesting economic factor is the good investment infrastructure presented in the state, with the Stock Exchange, Commodities and Futures Exchange of São Paulo, the second largest stock exchange in the world by market value.
It's not just the economy that deserves attention. The state has considerably good social indicators, being the 3rd best Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.833, the second highest GDP per capita US$ 13,346.42, the second lowest infant mortality rate, 14.5% born and the fourth lowest rate of illiteracy, 4%, between states of Brazil.
Paulista Avenue
Much of its territory, 85%, is between 300 and 900 meters high, with most of the state territory formed by narrow coastal plains, which are limited by the Serra do Mar, and plains in the rest of the territory. The climate can be divided into four subtypes: the super humid tropical, highland tropical, hot and humid tropical and subtropical moist.
Brazil is a Federative Republic, administratively and politically divided in 27 federative units (26 states and a federal district). The president, governors, mayors, senators, representatives and councilors are elected directly by mandatory vote every 4 years.
The country is located in South America and it is the fifth largest country in area with 8.514.876.599 km². The country is bordered by Atlantic Ocean through its entire coast. It is also the fifth country in population, with more than 190 million inhabitants. Majority of the population is concentrated in the coast.
Brazil is the largest national economy in Latin America, the world’s sixth largest economy at market exchange rates and the seventh largest in purchasing power parity (PPP), according to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Brazil has a mixed economy with abundant natural resources.
The first big product of Brazilian Economy was the sugarcane production, during colony period, followed by the gold extraction in Minas Gerais state. After its independence, a new economic cycle has emerged, and coffee became the main product. This moment was very important for the development of the state of São Paulo, which is now the richest one in the country. Nowadays, Brazil is within the 20 world greatest exporters list.
Brazilian topography is diverse and includes mountains, plains, highlands, and scrublands. Much of the terrain lies between 200mt (660ft) and 800mt (2,600ft) in elevation. The main upland area occupies most of the southern half of the country. The country has also one of the greatest sweet groundwater reservoirs in the planet. The Guarani Aquifer, the biggest in the world, is partly located under Ribeirão Preto.
Brazilian climate comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a large area and varied topography, but most of the country is tropical. Brazil hosts different climatic subtypes: equatorial, tropical, semiarid, highland tropical, temperate, and subtropical.
The different climatic conditions produce environments ranging from equatorial rainforests in the north and semiarid deserts in the northeast, to temperate coniferous forests in the south and tropical savannas in central Brazil. The country climate is predominantly tropical. The exception is South Country (including parts of São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul) with subtropical climate and reasonably defined seasons. Ribeirão Preto has a nice warm weather, with high temperatures (medium 26oC) all year, excepting some days during the winter.
Brazilians are descendant of native people, Portuguese colonists, Africans and from the diverse groups of immigrants that established in Brazil between 1820 and 1970. Most part of immigrants were Italians and Portuguese, but there was significant presence of Germans, Spanish, Japanese and Syrian-Lebanese. Racism is considered an imprescriptible and no-bail crime by the Brazilian Constitution.
Because of its continental dimensions, Brazil is a country with a rich cultural diversity that synthesizes the diverse ethnicities from Brazilian people. Because of that, there is no homogeneous Brazilian culture, but a mosaic of different cultural sources that together form Brazilian culture. As the Portuguese settled here, culture has a great influence of Portuguese culture. It’s exactly this Portuguese cultural inheritance that composes Brazilian unit: there are different ethnicities, however, everyone speaks the same language (Portuguese) and almost 90% of population is Christian, either Catholics or Protestants.
Portuguese is the official spoken language for all population. Brazil is the only country of Portuguese language in America, giving to it a distinct cultural identity in relation to the other countries from the continent. The language spoken in Brazil is very similar to the one spoken in the other parts of the world. Amazingly Portuguese is considered to be the most homogeneous occidental language spoken modernly. There are differences in some words and in pronunciation, but all speakers can understand themselves.
DESCRIPTION
The Undergraduate program of Economics stands out for being based on an extremely updated curricular proposal, providing the future economist with an education commensurate with the present demands and with what can be envisioned in the future. Apart from the compulsory basic-knowledge subjects, the program offers elective subjects being the student’s responsibility to promote a better combination of what best meets his/her wishes and intentions for an academic and professional qualification. Among the emphases available are, for instance, the subjects in the areas of International Economics, Financing, Labor Economics, and Economics History. Advised by a professor, the student should develop a completion-of-program monographic. Humanistic and professional education will allow the future FEA-RP economists to skillfully overcome the challenge of the limits of current economics.
Modern society needs professionals trained to solve issues related to the economic-finance tract of the globalized world. Thus, the FEA-RP Economics program aims to provide his students with a wide knowledge basis, focused on the pieces of information received and dealt with along the undergraduation period, and the consequent capacity of compiling, dealing with, and concluding macro- and micro-economic information they have been put through.
Yet, it is imperative to point out the excellence of the Economics Undergraduate Studies, ratified by the Exame Nacional de Cursos (National Program Exams), the so called “Provão” (approximate translation, “The Big Test”), which together with the professors’ high-qualified level provide the students with the opportunity of developing research-projects country-wide recognized by the main financing agencies, as well as with excellent professional opportunities.
CAREER
The planned education aims at developing competences essential for the performance in the constantly-mutating work market which requires an achiever-professional who holds a global vision mainly over actively inserting the organization in which he/she works into the local, national, and world market.
The economist’s private professional activity is exercised liberally or not through studies, researches, analyses, reports, opinions, expertise, arbitrations, evaluation reports, certificates, or through any act of economic or financial nature, including planning, implementing, orienting, supervising, or assisting works related to economic or financing activities within public, private, or mixed undertakings.
The following activities are inherent to the economist’s professional field in conformity with the pertinent legislation:
PLANNING, PROJECTION, PROGRAMMING, FINACIAL-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF INVESTIMENTS AND FINANCINGS OF ANY NATURE such as
STUDIES, ANALYSES, AND OPINIONS PERTINENT TO MACRO-AND MICRO-ECONOMICS such as:
EXPERTISE
(Expertise is the verification carried out by a skilled professional so as to thoroughly observe the facts of technical-scientific nature and ascertain the likely causes that originated the economic-nature issues).
CALCULATIONS FOR RULING SETTLEMENT OF LAWSUITS:
ARBITRATIONS:
(Arbitration is the solution recommended by a skilled professional or his/her decision to solve the holdovers between the propositions and the diverging quantities).
EVALUATIONS:
(Evaluation is the technical-fixing act of the value of an asset or a right).
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL AUDIT:
(Management audit aims to verify the execution of contracts, agreements, accords, or adjustments, the probity in using public money, and the custody of valuables and other assets).
(Audit of Programs means to follow up, examine, and evaluate the execution of specific government programs and projects, and to apply decentralized resources).
(Operational Audit acts in the inter-related areas of the organ, entity, or enterprise, evaluating its results in relation to the material, human, and technological resources available, as well as the economic viability and efficiency of the existing internal control for the management of public or private resources).
(Its objective is to verify and evaluate the safety aspects of the control programs of the Computational System.)
(Management Audit is focused on verifying the company’s adequacy towards the settlement of human resources, strategic planning, and quality control policies within their financial and economic aspects).
Observation: Direction or head of the audit schools of organs, public or private entities, as well as the commissioned posts and functions of trust in which the retro-mentioned audit activities are developed, can be performed by an economist duly registered in the Regional Economic Council (CRE), and he/she is assured the opportschooly and the right to apply for and participate in selective public tenders to pursue a career as an auditor.
THE MARKET
The field of work is varied, comprising financial institutions, industries, commerce, public enterprises, and service-rendering firms of accounting and auditing.
The demand is strong and almost always the bachelor is immediately placed in the work market with the proper remuneration.
For further information on how to be an Undergraduate student at FEA-RP, please visit: http://www.fearp.usp.br/en/index.php/study-at-fea-rp/seeking-degree-student/undergraduate
Ribeirão Preto (Portuguese for "black stream") is a city in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is nicknamed Brazilian California because of a combination of an economy based on agribusiness plus high technology, wealth and sunny weather all over the year. With more than 600,000 inhabitants, Ribeirão Preto is the eighth largest municipality in the state. With a total area of 652,2 square kilometers, its latitude is 21º 10' 42" South e 47º 48' 24" West; and it is 330 km far from the capital city and 708 km far from Brasília, the federal capital. The average altitude is 546,8 m. Ribeirão Preto is in the center of a urban agglomeration with more than one million inhabitants.
Panoramic View of Ribeirão Preto
The city was founded in June 19th, 1856, by farmers who came from the southeast of Sao Paulo State to search good climate and soil for coffee growing. The city was laid by a stream called "Black Stream" and was named after it. Eventually the farmers' choice revealed very adequate and the fertile soil of the area allowed the highest crop productivity in Brazil.
Dr. Luiz Carlos Raya Park
After the New York Stock Exchange crash in 1929, the economy of Ribeirão Preto, based only on exportation crops, collapsed, and the city had to adapt to a new situation. Since the city is relatively far from other major Brazilian urban centers, it found a new economic vocation in the services and commercial sector, which was developed to meet the local and regional demands.
Chopperia Pinguim
The second economic boom in the history of Ribeirão Preto occurred after the oil crisis in the 1970s. The increase in the oil price forced Brazil to look for alternative means of fueling and the solution found was the sugarcane ethanol program, or Pro-Álcool as it was called. The program led to the development of a technology which allows the use of ethanol either as automotive fuel or as a gasoline additive to improve performance and decrease polluting emissions. Due to the Pró-Álcool program, local farmers were encouraged by government subsidies to grow sugarcane. The high productivity of the land around Ribeirão Preto rapidly placed the region as the biggest ethanol and sugar producer of the world, being responsible for 30 percent of Brazil's sugarcane ethanol.
Night scenery of Ribeirão Preto
In an opposite direction to what had happened during the city's first economic boom, this time Ribeirão Preto farmers and entrepreneurs did not concentrate themselves exclusively on a single crop and diversified their investments making the city one of the most important agribusiness centers of Brazil. Besides sugar and ethanol, Ribeirão Preto's major products are orange juice, cotton, rice, meat, dairy products, textiles, machinery, steel, furniture, building materials, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and beer.
Theater D. Pedro II
The sugarcane boom brought a new age of prosperity for the city, which was called the "Brazilian California" during the 1980s and early 1990s, and this has increased the city's wealth and turned it into a sophisticated center of services for Brazil and South America.
Ribeirão Preto is a very warm city during the whole year. Generally between the months of May and September the temperature drops considerably in the mornings and at nights, but it is still warm during the afternoons. It is strongly important to remember that in these months, the air humidity is considerably very low and it rarely rains.
Methropolitan Cathedral Church of Ribeirão Preto
Hippie market fair at Praça das Bandeiras, Downtwon Ribeirão Preto.
Sunset
DESCRIPTION
The evolution of accounting, a science strongly based on the Theory of Measurement, has followed the growth of the economical and organizational needs of development indicators and measures. Nowadays, the economics globalization turns the needs for lofty indexes of quality and efficiency into an imperative aspect when obtaining competitive advantage is concerned. Therefore, accounting information systems, more precisely the accounting reports, have evolved with the aim to measure the impact of decisions on behalf of quality and efficiency.
In 2011, the program of Accounting of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto was awarded 5 stars in the high-education program evaluation carried out by the Guia do Estudante (The Student’sGuide), of Editora Abril (Abril Print-House).
CAREER
Within the Accounting profession, the different professional performance sectors are shown with a strong demand. After the program has been completed, the bachelor will be able to perform as: controller, advisor (finance and fiscal), auditor (in-house and external), expert, fiscal auditor, accounting system analyst, financing manager, financing director, and accounting director.
THE MARKET
Work opportunities are varied, ranging from financing institutions, industrial institutions, commerce activities, and public enterprises up to accounting and auditing services.
The demand is strong and almost always the graduate is immediately placed in the work market with the proper remuneration.
For further information on how to be an Undergraduate student at FEA-RP, please visit: http://www.fearp.usp.br/en/index.php/study-at-fea-rp/seeking-degree-student/undergraduate
DESCRIPTION
The higher-education program in Business Administration educates rather valued professionals with a wide range of work highly diversified which demand a humanistic and ethical education with a technical and business view towards the life of organizations.
Teachings have been enriched by professor-conducted researches, as well as by written articles defended nationally and internationally, conjugating efforts of scientific-initiation students. In addition, the program is graded “A+” by MEC – Ministry of Education and Culture.
CAREER
In a more and more competitive market of modern organizations, the administrator must be able to plan, organize, manage, and control the tangible and intangible resources he/she holds, being responsible for taking care of managerial processes in strategic, tactic, and operational levels of different areas: marketing, finance, human resources, purchase, operation, research, and development.
THE MARKET
The professional can be either the undertaker who opens his own business or the executive in different levels of directorship; his/her performance is present in several organizations: industrial, commercial, service rendering, or third sector. As an expert in organizations, he/she works as company advisor, and manager of projects, resources, people, and businesses.
For further information on how to be an Undergraduate student at FEA-RP, please visit: http://www.fearp.usp.br/en/index.php/study-at-fea-rp/seeking-degree-student/undergraduate