The Finance Department is engaged into the active scientific research work into the theory and practice of the public, international and corporate finance mainly on the basis of state orders, the joint research with foreign educational and scientific institutions, the publications of monographs, handbooks, manuals and research papers. The research work results are published by the department members in the form of presentations at international and national scientific conferences, symposiums and meetings. Results of the research have a practical significance and are implemented in the national economy or used in the course of the educational process.
Today, specialists of the department are involved into the Market Economy Financial Infrastructure research project based on the state order aimed at optimising the organisation of the public finance in the market-based economy, as well as the organisation of the corporate finance and the financial management in joint stock companies.
The scientific research with academic organisations, other universities and foreign financial institutions is carried out both in the form of the internship, and in the form of the joint research into comprehensive public finance subjects. The most significant results have been attained in the course of the co-operation with foreign institutions, such as the Napier University and Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland), Valencia University (Spain), and Konstanz University (Germany), the Central Economics and Finance University (Beijing), and the International Fiscal Foundation (Amsterdam).
Results of the scientific research are implemented at the level of the Administration of the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, the State Control and Revision Service, the State Treasury of Ukraine, the State Commission for Securities and Stock Market, the State Financial Service Markets Regulation Commission, the State Property Fund of Ukraine, joint stock companies and other business entities.
Students studying their disciplines in the Finance Department are actively involved into the scientific research work. Students of the Finance Department can take part in annual students' scientific conferences and Olympics, discussion groups considering and discussing complicated and topical issues of the theory and practice of finance. They are engaged into research in the course of the preparation of Master theses during the internships. Results of the students' research are published during the participation of the best students in Ukrainian Student Olympics and students' scientific conferences.