Bachelor Thesis (ECO116)

Bachelor Thesis is an independent work that summarizes the knowledge, abilities and skills acquired during studies and justifies the awarded bachelor's qualification in business management. In terms of content and analysis methods, the final work of bachelor's studies directly and indirectly combines the object of various disciplines into a single whole.

In the bachelor's final thesis, it is appropriate to study the current macroeconomic, microeconomic and problems of financial markets and institutions. After choosing to examine the relevant economic problems of the company, it is recommended to carry out an economic evaluation of the company's activities, justify production or investment decisions, it is appropriate to solve the optimization problems of the company's activities, take into account microeconomic and macroeconomic circumstances, etc.

It is recommended that the company or organization whose problem is addressed in the bachelor's thesis coincide with the place of internship. The organization in which the practice is carried out and the organization examined in the final bachelor's thesis do not necessarily have to coincide in the following cases:

a) the student performs an internship in a financial institution, state institution, consulting company (ministry, association, bank, insurance company or other financial institution, real estate agency, audit company, economic research company, etc.) and analyzes the activities of the clients of this institution or company or chooses a problem for the solution of which the data collected during practice are relevant. This situation must be clearly described in the bachelor's thesis, explaining the reasons for the discrepancy between the place of practice and the company whose problem is being addressed.

b) the student completed the internship earlier (not in the same study semester as the bachelor's final thesis) and can no longer collect data in the same place (the company went bankrupt, changed the field of activity, the relationship between the student and the company ended). In this case, a certificate is submitted from another company whose problem is solved in the bachelor's thesis, that the company is aware of and agrees to the collection of data about it and the writing of the bachelor's thesis.

c) the profile of the company's activities does not correspond to the problematic topic under consideration.

The bachelor's final thesis is prepared in the eighth semester of studies, and 15 ECTS credits are allocated to it. The work can be written in Lithuanian or English.

• To be able to identify relevant macro-economic, macro-economic, financial markets and institutions, organization, managerial economics issues, formulate work goals and tasks based on them.
• To be able to analyze and study the chosen environment of the object under consideration (country, market, sector, company) and its economic indicators, their parameters, and justify the existence of the problem and the need to solve it.
• To be able to choose the appropriate research method to solve the problem, link the data of the review of scientific theories and the analysis of the practical problem under consideration, evaluate the advantages, disadvantages and limitations of the methods when studying a specific practical problem.
• Be able to conduct research and justify the application of its results to the solution of the problem formulated in the introduction of the work. Be able to summarize the results, analyze them in detail, interpret them and present the following recommendations.
• To be able to summarize the conclusions of a large-scale project (written work), connecting them with the purpose and tasks of the work.
• Be able to smoothly develop the text, synthesize separate parts of the work and tasks into a unified, consistent, academic written work that demonstrates managerial competences, meets the requirements for format and scope, and the requirements of language culture.
• Be able to select and use appropriate theoretical and other sources to reveal, analyze and solve the problem, clearly demonstrating the abilities of knowledge application, analysis, evaluation and creation of new knowledge (solutions).
• Be able to plan working time for preparing large-scale academic written work.
• To be able to present the prepared work to an audience of specialists, to explain decisions in a reasoned manner and to answer questions.